Shai Moses, nephew of hostage survivors Gadi and Margalit Moses, criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a statement on Begin Road in Tel Aviv, saying, "It's time to internalize the painful truth, he doesn't care if the hostages die in captivity." He added: "In his struggle to torpedo the return of hostages, Netanyahu is undermining the foundations of the Jewish people and the foundations of the State of Israel. All Jews are responsible for one another? We don't leave wounded in the field? All these lofty values are being trampled for political survival."