A man who spoke Hebrew with a Persian accent and claimed to be a member of Hamas called Julie Kupershtein, the mother of hostage Bar Kupershtein, and threatened her, Kupershtein told Israeli public broadcaster KAN on Thursday.
“It was early in the morning," Kupershtein told KAN. "I got a phone call and someone on the other end asked, 'Bar's mother?' I was very hurt.”
Bar Kupershtein, 23, was kidnapped on October 7, 2023, from the Nova Music Festival in Re'im.
The man who claimed to be a Hamas operative spoke in a threatening tone, Kupershtein told the state broadcaster.
'If you want to see Bar, go to The Hague'
If Kupershtein “wants to see Bar,” the man told her, she should go to The Hague to testify that the Israeli military has been "murdering our children."
According to Kupershtein, the man told her that she was "not doing enough" to bring Bar back home.
Kupershtein needed to “go out and protest in the streets and overthrow the government," the man reportedly added.