Opposition leader Yair Lapid warned at the start of the Yesh Atid party’s faction meeting on Monday that "if Israel resumes fighting in Gaza, the hostages will die."
He argued that "the claim that we are fighting to bring them back has not held up to any test. The longer the fighting continues, the more hostages die. The government must not and cannot lie to the public. Returning to war means the death of the hostages."