‘Get our sons out of Gaza just like you’re freeing Naama from Russia’
Hamas is also holding two civilian captives who wandered into Gaza: Ethiopian-Israeli Avera Mengistu and Bedouin-Israeli Hisham al-Sayed.
By TOVAH LAZAROFFLeah Goldin, mother of Hadar, speaks at a press conference, August 5, 2018(photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should turn over every stone to ensure the return of “our sons” from Gaza, just as he has worked to secure the potential release of Naama Issachar from a Moscow jail, the Goldin and Shaul families urged on Monday.Their sons, Lt. Hadar Goldin and St.-Sgt. Oron Shaul, were presumed to have been killed in the 2014Gaza war, but Hamas has yet to return their bodies.The terrorist group is also holding two civilian captives who wandered into Gaza: Ethiopian-Israeli Avera Mengistu and Bedouin-Israeli Hisham al-Sayed.“We’re asking Netanyahu to turn the world over to return Hadar and Oron, just as he turned the world over to return Naama Issachar,” the Goldin and Shaul families said. “We can all see that the prime minister’s obligation to his soldiers and citizens is not comparable.”The Goldin and Shaul families issued their calls as anticipation is high that Russian President Vladimir Putin will concede to Netanyahu’s request for the release of Naama. The 26-year-old is serving seven-and-a-half years in a Russian jail after nine-and-a-half grams of cannabis was allegedly found in her checked-in luggage in April while on a stopover in a Moscow airport en route to Israel. She is widely believed to be a diplomatic hostage.The Goldin and Shaul families have embarked on a campaign to highlight that Hamas has held their sons for 2,000 days. Some “2,000 days have passed without the Israeli government standing by its promise to bring its soldiers home from battle,” the families said in a statement.
