The Israeli security cabinet intends on Sunday to convene to discuss for the first time in two years the issue of Israeli captives in the Gaza Strip and ways to bring them back.
According to Israel’s channel 2 the crisis of confidence between families of missing Israeli soldiers and Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu was the reason behind the decision to hold this security cabinet meeting.
The channel pointed out that the crisis heated up after the Israeli government signed a reconciliation agreement with Turkey not including any reference to the issue of missing soldiers in Gaza.
The mother of missing soldier Oron Shaul accused Netanyahu in recent press remarks of forgetting and neglecting the issue of her son.
The channel expected that the security cabinet would take new measures to pressure Hamas to disclose information on the missing soldiers including tightening the incarceration conditions of its prisoners in Israeli prisons and rejailing more ex-detainees who were released as part of the 2011 swap deal.
Al-Qassam Brigades the armed wing of Hamas had revealed in early April 2016 that it had four Israeli captives including two soldiers captured during the 2014 war without providing clear information if they were alive or dead.
