Strock: IDF should enter new Gaza areas, even if hostages are put in danger

Strock told the news station that operations should be expanded even in areas of the Gaza Strip that are designated as “do not touch zones” due to intelligence indicating the presence of both living and dead hostages in those sections.

“A great effort should be made to ensure that the hostages there are not harmed, but it is wrong to avoid defeating Hamas in those areas,” Strock said in response to the interviewer asking her whether she believed her approach is endangering the hostages’ lives.

She said that human lives are also at risk when rockets are fired or soldiers are targeted for kidnapping attempts. “I don’t know how to make such a moral calculation where I determine whose life is more important.”

“Strock is leading the state toward sacrificing the hostages, and with them, the values upon which the State of Israel was built – all in the name of a senseless and endless war, a war that must end for the sake of the entire people of Israel,” the forum wrote on X/Twitter.

“Normalizing their captivity, Strock is gambling with the fate of the hostages. This is not surprising coming from someone who has long been an obstinate obstacle to the rescue of the hostages. This is a disgrace to the government,” the forum added.

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The Forum for Ending the War, a group comprised of bereaved parents of fallen soldiers, also denounced Strock’s comments.

She is “sending our children to die without reason. For her, the blood of our children is worthless. This cannot continue,” it wrote.