Maayan Sigal Korena relative of two hostages still held by Hamas said RFI What is your state of mind at that moment when there seem to be no options for a new exchange?

RFI: What is your state of mind at the moment, after the first hostage exchange two months ago, and when negotiations for a new exchange seem to be blocked?

We’re a little confused because Everything changes from one moment to another. Suddenly this news reminds us of a truce, but a few minutes later our Prime Minister says that this is not true, that there is nothing. It hurts us a lot because we have a lot of hope and the next minute it all disappears.

RFI: You were part of a group of relatives of hostages who stormed a parliamentary committee meeting in Jerusalem, demanding that lawmakers do more to secure the release of their loved ones. Can you tell us what happened?

We gather in the Knesset every Monday to talk about the problem of kidnapped people, ask everyone for help, and do everything possible to free them. And when we arrived that day, we discovered that there had been no planned conversation about them. Since the war began, there has been talk of hostages every week. This was the first day that I didn’t plan anything for them.

This made us a little nervous and we decided to find out why. We had signs on which we wrote that we could not sit and talk about other topics while our relatives were dying in Gaza. At first they let us in, but then they stopped us. Therefore, we decided to enter without asking permission, we shouted and asked to talk about the hostages and not about other things. I went with my mother, who was very excited and crying.