06 August 2018•Update: 06 August 2018
JERUSALEM
Families of two Israeli soldiers who went missing in the Gaza Strip during the 2014 Israeli war have accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife of insulting them, according to Israeli daily Haaretz on Monday.
Zehava Shaul, the mother of soldier Oron Shaul, said at a joint press conference with the family of soldier Hadar Goldin, that Netanyahu and his wife yelled at them in two separate occasions, the newspaper said.
She claimed that the Israeli premier had accused the soldiers’ families of being “liars”.
According to the soldiers' families Sara Netanyahu said that their relation with Netanyahu’s political rival would undermine efforts to retrieve her son.
Netanyahu’s family denied the accusations.
The families of the two soldiers have stepped up their pressure on Netanyahu to work for returning their two sons amid reports about a proposed truce deal with Palestinian resistance group Hamas in Gaza.
The two soldiers went missing in Gaza during the Israeli war that took place between July 8 and August 26 in 2014.
For its part, the Ezzeddin al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas, unveiled in April 2016 that it holds four Israeli soldiers captive without elaborating on their well-being.
Reporting by Osama al-Ghassani:Writing by Mahmoud Barakat
