Yotam Cohen, brother of kidnapped soldier Nimrod Cohen, declared at the Begin Gate of the Kirya in Tel Aviv that 'instead of bringing Nimrod home through an agreement, Netanyahu is sending soldiers to a war that will kill him.' Cohen noted that 'military pressure has already led to the deaths of 41 hostages in captivity, and escalating the war will not only kill the living hostages, it will make both the living and the deceased disappear and turn them all into Ron Arads.' He added: 'Netanyahu's peace war is a war to kill the hostages that we must oppose.'