According to reports, the hospitalized family member is his seventeen-year-old niece, who has received a bone marrow transplant.
The report noted that she was hospitalized during Operation Guardian of the Walls. According to Maariv, the hospital's spokesperson said that "during the war she was treated with dedication."
"Israel only knows how to give one type of humanitarian aid ,and it comes at the cost of [Israeli] civilians' lives," commented Yamina MK Idit Sliman.
Sliman decried the government's failure to return Israeli prisoners who are stuck in Gaza, adding that she will "contact Prime Minister [Benjamin Netanyahu] today to find out why humanitarian action during the Operation [Guardian of the Walls] was one sided." The bodies of IDF soldiers Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin, who were who abducted by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip in 2014, have not been returned as part of the ceasefire agreement.
Religious Zionist Party MK Orit Struck echoed Sliman's sentiments: "[The Israeli government] performing humanitarian acts towards one of our greatest enemies, who kidnap our soldiers and our civilians, must be in exchange for returning Israeli citizens."
"It is a doctor's Hippocratic oath to treat every sick and injured person that comes their way," insisted Meretz MK Mossi Raz. "They must do so without any regard to religion, race, nationality, identity, or family relation."