Father of the hostage: “Trump Administration also has a score that can also settle with Hamas.”

Ruby Chen, the father of the prisoner IDF soldier Itay, spoke to Arutz Sheva – Israel National News About the government's decision to escalate the battles in the Gaza Strip and the remarks of the Prime Minister for the two goals of the increased war, to defeat Hamas and return the hostages.

Chen indicates that the published description of the process neither the security for the living hostages nor the efforts to localize the deceased. “The plan is now doubling to the previous strategy that I heard from the Prime Minister in November 2023 when the prime minister was in front of me and told me that only a little more military pressure and we would give itay and the other hostages back, and we have not seen this. I can't imagine anything that changed.”

Ruby noticed that 75 percent of Israelis believe that the nation will only recover by returning the last hostage.

Chen notes that he and other representatives of the captured families visited the White House last week, where they heard about the American obligation to restore the hostages. “I was in the White House and heard about the administration as they were concerned about the hostages. Many Americans were killed that day, so the United States also had a score to settle with Hamas.”

Nevertheless, the visit made him worried about the lack of a breakthrough due to the American frustration to bring the hostages back with Trump's wish to promote wider American interests in the region.

In the claim that the acceptance of Hamas' dictations only an organization that Israel wants to blackmail, only that the use of the term transmission is only a false terminology, since we have to remember that there was a terrible failure for which the Israeli government is responsible. “Today's prize is the need to reclaim the living for rehabilitation and the dead for the funeral.”

“Hamas does not go anywhere. The need to defeat the Gazans requires a reformation process, a twenty -year process, no or two, and everyone who does not agree lies,” says Chen, complaining that the Israeli government has not submitted a proper plan for the day after the war, whether military government or another arrangement. “We have not seen a daily schedule in the long term, and that is the expectation of the families of the government of Israel.”

Chen explains that what gives him strength is the thought that his son, who was kept in Gaza, wants to see him when he fights this fight for him. “This is my commitment as a father to bring my son back where he has to be, in the state of Israel, and not to keep him under the ruins of Gaza and in the tunnels of the Gaza Strip.”

Ruby also adds that it is clear to everyone that the internal unit in Israel is only possible after the hostages have been returned. “With the help of people, we will bring them back, relax as a state and deal with all our enemies, but only after the hostages are back home.”

Chen told the special composition of the tank teams in which his son fought. The crew included both secular and religious soldiers. “Everyone had to work together in Itay's tank so that the tank worked.