Today, families of fallen IDF soldiers, part of the Hagvura Forum, staged a protest by placing coffins wrapped in Israeli flags on the sidewalk near their encampment to oppose the ceasefire agreement with Hamas.

Wally Wollfstal, whose son, IDF Capt. (res.) Ariel Mordechay Wollfstal, was killed in Gaza last January, explained the demonstration to Arutz Sheva. “That will be the price of this deal: hundreds more dead soldiers. If we go back there after they release a million people who were in the southern Gaza Strip and return them to the northern Gaza Strip, we will have more coffins,” he said.

Wollfstal called out directly to government officials, saying, “We call from the protest camp in Jerusalem to the cabinet members not to approve this reckless deal, the deal that will release thousands of terrorists and cause many more deaths of IDF soldiers. We call on you not to approve this deal. We ask you to take care of our hostages. There are still 64 hostages who would not be released now. We are in a very difficult security problem and we ask you to please not approve this deal.”

He strongly believes the deal should be halted, even if it means the government must be dissolved. “We call for doing the right thing so that this deal does not happen. Even at the cost of dissolving the government.” Wollfstal also criticized the Likud ministers who supported the deal, remarking, “Unfortunately, being in power is probably more important to them than the lives of our soldiers.”

“Releasing thousands of terrorists back into the field will bring us the next October 7,” he warned.

Last night, members of the Hagvura Forum, along with numerous supporters, set up tents outside the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, where they spent the night.

Yehoshua Shani, the forum’s chairman, announced that he would stay in the tent overnight, urging that the hostage release agreement be stopped. He was joined by other bereaved families and relatives of hostages, who are expected to remain outside the Prime Minister’s Office as well.

Shani explained that while bringing the hostages home is crucial, it should not come at the expense of Israel’s security, especially with 70 hostages still left behind. “This is a national emergency. The deal being signed at this moment is a deal that will bring disaster upon us. It will leave 70 hostages behind and jeopardize the security of the nation. Tonight, bereaved families will sleep near the Prime Minister’s Office, making a last-minute call to stop the deal. If the Prime Minister does not stop it, we call on the cabinet ministers, who have national responsibility, to stop this dangerous deal at the last moment.”

{Matzav.com Israel}