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WATCH: Cousin of murdered hostage says Israel may 'need to halt' release of prisoners
Oct 14, 2025
The cousin of hostage Tsachi Idan, murdered by Hamas, has said Israel may need to "pause the release of prisoners" until all the remaining bodies have been returned to their families.Speaking to GB News, Adam Ma’anit said that having just four bodies of the 28 hostages returned is "a betrayal of the agreement", and there needs to be "repercussions".FULL STORY HERE.
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I believe it. It's been two years. We've been fighting vociferously for the hostages
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since they were taken on October 7th. We've been shouting from the rooftops
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dreaming of this day and to finally see it happen. And especially in one go, rather than the
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drabs of the previous staged releases that Hamas sadistically ran last time they did the release
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of hostages. You know, no fanfare, just a quick speedy transfer of all of the 20 remaining
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alive hostages is the best possible outcome we could have hoped for for them. Obviously
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there's still the issue of the dead, and they were supposed to have released all 28
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dead hostages today. We didn't see that. So worrying time for those families
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Incredible images there We can see people emaciated ghosts Of course they would have been captured underground perhaps for all that time
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But they made it. They're free. And yet, today, we've seen almost a breakdown in the promise of Hamas
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They said they would release all 28 of those dead bodies. And so far, we only have two, we believe, with the possibility of an additional two
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Some people are saying Hamas had betrayed their deal already, and as a consequence, Israel should halt the release of any further prisoners
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What say you? Well, we have to have some kind of leverage to secure the remaining hostages to be released
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You know, I don't have any better solutions to you. Look, we knew that they were signaling in advance that they weren't going to have all of the hostages' bodies
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They were pretending that it was a really difficult prospect. that they had to find them that they had to search through rubble And so we made allowances for the possibility that maybe a few of the hostages wouldn be returned on this on this day But for four bodies out of the 28 to be returned is a betrayal of the agreement
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And there needs to be some repercussions. May I ask you, Adam, we speak a lot tangentially as commentators about the importance of getting remains back
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even when the hostage is deceased? Talking from your own personal experience
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tell us how vital it is to have that closure. Everyone's going to have different views about it
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but in Judaism, you know, the remains are very sacred. They need to be buried, ideally in Eretz Yisrael
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in the soil of their homeland, as soon as humanly possible. And so there's a kind of religious and spiritual element to it
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but also just for the families, many of whom will just want to be able to know that their loved one bodies is in a safe place that it not been defiled that it intact that they can kind of put them in a sanctuary a place of peace and reflection
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a cemetery next to perhaps other loved ones. Like with my cousin, Zahi, we buried him next to his firstborn daughter, Mayan
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who was murdered on October 7th. She was just 18 years old. She had just celebrated her 18th birthday only four days earlier
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The terrorists came in. They murdered her. He had to watch her die. Then he was taken hostage, held in captivity and murdered in captivity
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So reuniting them actually was a deeply moving, horrific, sorrowful day for us
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But nevertheless, a beginning of some semblance of closure for our family and the beginning of a grieving process
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Thank you so much for joining us today on this historic day and sharing your very, very points of moving
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I appreciate your time. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you. I'll come up in just a moment
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We'll be looking at the near..
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