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Missing IDF soldier's family: Netanyahu failing a test by signing deal with Turkey

By JPOST.COM STAFF

JUNE 25, 2016 21:48

The family of Lt. Hadar Goldin, the IDF soldier killed during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza whose body was never returned, came out against a pending reconciliation deal with Turkey that does not include the return of their son's remains.

"We view gravely the pending agreement between Israel and Turkey, the leader of the the Muslim Brotherhood and the state that serves as Hamas in Gaza's patron," the family said in a statement on Saturday evening.

The announcement was released after the family of St.-Sgt. Oron Shaul, who like Goldin was killed in Gaza and not returned to his family for burial in Israel, said that it would raise a protest tent outside of the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on Sunday.

"The agreement does not include the return of our sons, Hadar and Oron, to Israel, contrary to stated promises from the prime minister made over the last two years," the Goldins' statement added.

"As we understand it, by signing the agreement the prime minister will have failed the first meaningful test after Operation Protective Edge, and will grant a prize to Hamas for kidnapping Lt. Hadar Goldin and St.-Sgt. Oron Shaul," the family charged.

"The time has come for Israel to be the one who sets the price for Hamas on kidnapping and holding soldiers, and not as we have gotten used to over the last 30 years - to pay heavy prices to our enemies."

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