It's time to respect our feelings.

Israel has raised hell, and its threatening tone has reached its highest level, demanding that the world see three of its detainees held by the resistance, when they were released yesterday, in a state of very clear emaciation and physical weakness, due to the conditions of detention. The families of the Israeli prisoners shouted in a statement that the difficult images taken during the release of Ohad, Eli and Or are further blatant evidence that leaves no room for doubt: the prisoners do not have time, and the Israelis must get everyone out of there, even the last prisoner, now!

Yesterday, the father of an Israeli captive in the Gaza Strip asked: What does Netanyahu intend to do? How will he threaten Hamas? If he cares about the captives, he should accelerate the second stage now, so that everyone will be back within two weeks. Seeing them on the screen was horrifying. Netanyahu has brought us to a situation where Israelis are coming out of captivity as if they had come out of a holocaust.

The mother of an Israeli prisoner in Gaza called on Israelis to take to the streets after the situation in which the three hostages appeared, and said: Netanyahu is spending his vacation in Washington and is trying to abort the second stage of the deal, and the hostages are in a holocaust. She concluded that the situation of the hostages is a result of Netanyahu aborting the exchange deal in the past.

A senior Israeli health ministry official said the three prisoners suffered from severe malnutrition, reflecting the extent of what they had been through.

This official knows very well that the suffering of the Israeli detainees from malnutrition is due to the prevention of the entry of aid to the Palestinians, as Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir demanded and Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to. The Forum of Families of Israeli Prisoners and Detainees knows that Netanyahu is the one who foiled deal after deal in order to eliminate Hamas, and that Netanyahu, as the father of one of the Israeli prisoners admitted, is the one who brought things to a situation in which the prisoners are released from captivity as if they had been released from the Holocaust. And as the mother of one of the prisoners admitted, the hostage situation is the result of Netanyahu’s aborting of the exchange deal in the past.

For another important clarification, we review what the opposition leader, Yair Lapid, stated while attacking Netanyahu and asking: Have you discovered now that the prisoners’ condition is difficult? Didn’t you know that before? Because it was written in the intelligence documents that were placed on your desk in recent months.. You saw these reports exactly as I saw them.. What is the benefit now of you “ordering action”? And if there were actions, why didn’t you order them before?

Certainly, the narration of the facts from within the Israeli street is clear proof and evidence of the responsibility of Netanyahu and his extremist ministers for the situation in which they placed the Israeli detainees and brought them to this situation, at a time when the resistance sought and repeatedly declared that it was keen to protect the detainees from the Israeli bombing that in some cases caused the death of Israeli prisoners.

If we are talking about feelings regardless of gender, religion and belief, don’t we have the right to address the Israeli street and ask it to stop for a moment and reflect on the condition of our Palestinian prisoners, and what Netanyahu, Ben Gvir and the prison administration did to them? Doesn’t the Israeli Detainees’ Families Forum know that all the Palestinian prisoners who have been released since the start of the exchange deal suffer from health problems, and hundreds of them have had to be transferred to hospitals due to the organized crimes against them, which were revealed by the relevant institutions, most notably the crimes of torture, denial of treatment and medicine, starvation, abuse, humiliation, deprivation of sleep and prayer, and the severe beatings practiced by the repression units on a daily basis and even in the last moments before release?

Doesn’t the Israeli Prisoners’ Families Forum know that more than 70 Palestinian prisoners have been killed in cold blood by the prison administration since October 7, 2023, simply to take revenge on the Palestinian prisoners and their cause, and that about 13,000 Palestinian prisoners are living in a holocaust, unprecedented in its cruelty in human history, and that the families of Palestinian prisoners are deprived by Israeli political and military decisions from receiving their imprisoned sons and expressing their feelings?

The Israeli street, which has become more extremist than ever before, is required to stand up for the cause of its prisoners and confront those responsible for the deterioration of their conditions. It must also raise its voice with all courage to stand up to those responsible for the deterioration of the conditions of the Palestinian prisoners, who are suffering from catastrophic conditions that are much more difficult, and there are hundreds and thousands of cases. Addressing the Israeli street forcefully: It is time for you to respect the feelings of the thirteen thousand Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons and their families, if you want the world to respect and appreciate the feelings of a handful of Israeli hostages.