In a recording of the Friday meeting leaked to Channel 12, a daughter of one of the hostages can be heard telling the prime minister, “You can be remembered as the one who led the country to a better place or as the one who wreaked havoc here. You are the prime minister and you are responsible for the abductees, not Hamas and not anyone else. You are supposed to reach a deal that will bring all the abductees.”

Avichai Brodetz, whose wife, Hagar, and three children, Ofri, Yuval, and Uriah, are being held hostage, yelled at Likud Member of Knesset Boaz Bismuth on television, “Do you know why my family was kidnapped? Not because of Hamas. Because there was no army there to protect me […] The problem is you, not Hamas.”