Protests broke out at the Israeli Knesset on Monday because guard personnel did not allow bereaved families of October 7 victims to attend a speech by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The families are demanding a probe into October 7. They want to know what the Israeli government knew in advance, how it responded with lethal force on civilians and why the Prime Minister has repeatedly failed to negotiate for hostage releases when Hamas demands all along have been “all for all.”
The Prime Minister says that anyone who wants an investigation like that is from the “deep state.” He said that an investigative committee would only be “a committee whose conclusions are already predetermined, and they have been written, all concentrated at one end of the political spectrum.”
He compared this to the political persecution of President Trump in the U.S.
“Most of the people see everything that is happening here, the cooperation between the bureaucracy, the deep state, [which] in the United States, did not succeed. And it will not succeed here either,” he said.
The Prime Minster warned Hamas of “consequences you can’t imagine” if the remaining prisoners are not exchanged. He spoke of a “hell plan” to stop all aid to Gaza while resuming military attacks. The U.S. is apparently on board because Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had a call on Monday with Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz and they spoke of the two countries’ “unbreakable bond.”
