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The father of a hostage currently held in Gaza has alleged that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would prefer that the hostages were dead so that he can carry out intensified attacks on the enclave.
“He prefers the hostages dead because it’s going to make it easier for him,” Yehuda Cohen said in an interview with the BBC on Friday.
“Once you convince everybody that they are all dead… you can say, ‘okay, we can go brute force on the Gaza Strip, bomb everything,’” he said.
Cohen, whose son Nimrod is still being held captive in Gaza, was one of several family members of the hostages to sail toward the enclave on Thursday, calling for the war to end.
Netanyahu “just (doesn’t) care” about the hostages, Cohen said. “He’s using the hostages issue to prolong the war, to prolong his position as a prime minister.”
“Netanyahu is working for personal interest. He’s on criminal trial, and as I say always, this is what happens when you put a person who is under criminal trial as a head of a state,” he said, referencing a long-running corruption trial involving the prime minister... READ MORE https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-gaza-war-netanyahu-08-08-25
Hamas and its allies still hold 50 hostages in Gaza. The Israeli
government believes at least 20 are alive, while 28 have been declared
deceased. https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/middleeast/gaza-hostage-families-boat-protest-latam-intl