Hostage survivor Yocheved Lifshitz spoke at the opening of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting on the military service exemption law, saying that "the hostages are barely visible, transparent. And you are discussing everything else except bringing them home." According to her, "Nir Oz is the kibbutz that suffered the most. Netanyahu remembered after a year and 10 months to come visit. He promised mountains and hills, but the moment he crossed the fence he forgot about us and the hostages. Look also at what's happening on the other side, this is our destruction. They portray us as murderers. Instead of them being the ones, we have become the murderers. Nothing can help us except release."