A dinner table is set with empty chairs that symbolically represent hostages and missing people with families that are waiting for them to come home, following a deadly infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Oct. 20, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Janis Laizans
i24 News — Relatives of Israelis being held captive in Gaza announced plans to demonstrate on Tuesday at the Kerem Shalom border crossing to highlight lack of humanitarian access to the hostages kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7.
Shai Wenkert, father of a hostage suffering medical issues, told Israel’s Channel 12 that the protest aims to contrast daily truckloads of Gazan aid against deprivations forced on the hostages.
There are reportedly 100 supply trucks now entering Gaza daily, below pre-war levels but still significant given barred access to the captives for months. Organizers say withholding overall aid is not the objective.
“It’s not because we don’t think they don’t deserve aid,” Wenkert said of Gazans, explaining the protest was not a move to hold the aid from reaching Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
