The cabinet members were shocked by what they saw. “Monsters, non-humans, this once again emphasizes who we are dealing with,” they said. Those present when the video was shown said that “it was very difficult to see.
During the meeting, the ministers were told that the captives – Hirsh Goldberg-Polin, Carmel Gat, Alex Lobanov, Eden Yerushalmi, Almog Sarusi and Ori Danino – were killed on the night of August 31, so there is no connection between their liquidation and the cabinet’s decision to leave the IDF in the Philadelphia Corridor area, taken on the night of September 1. According to estimates, the hostages were killed because the terrorists feared the arrival of Israeli soldiers in the tunnel where they were hiding the captives.
Mossad chief Dedi Barnea spoke at a cabinet meeting about the progress in the negotiations. From his words, those present understood that Israel is expecting a new American initiative to be presented, although it is not a fact that it will be made public in the foreseeable future.