Bat Galim Shaar, the mother of the murdered Gil-Ad Shaar, criticizes the conduct of the security forces and says: "They planted hope in us.".
In a conversation with News10, she said that when she first listened to the recording of Gil-Ad's call to the 100 hotline, security officials explained to her that it was an empty gunshot. "In the days after the kidnapping, they told us that no traces of blood or DNA were found in the burned car. They said that if they wanted to kill someone, they would shoot them straight and not warn them. When Gil-Ad was heard saying 'Ay,' they said, it sounded like a pinch and not like someone they were going to kill - and they said that they probably shot out the windows, which is why bullets were found on the sides of the car." According to her, "We had real hope that they were alive.".
The mother added: "I told the Minister of Defense and the head of the Shin Bet - we know that in the beginning there was a terrible mistake, but now I don't want to deal with the mistakes, I just want to know that you are doing everything possible to bring my son back.".
The father, Ofir, who called dozens of emergency and security centers during the night in an attempt to locate his son, is frustrated. "What has been published in the media to date in terms of our attempts to do something is just the tip of the iceberg," he claimed. "We did much more than that. If they learn lessons from the incident, that's enough.".
Bat Galim also said: "At a certain point that night, we realized that it wasn't the police who should handle this, but the army, and that the army hadn't been brought into the picture yet. We felt like we were wasting precious time. I told myself that we had to have someone do something, we had to have connections. We turned to people from the settlement who were a little more connected than us, and only after we got the Havashatz involved did something start to move.".
""When they told us at 6:00 in the morning that the army was in the picture, I told myself that we were in good hands," Gil-Ad's mother continued. "I was naive, I told everyone that they would bring the child to me by Saturday. In retrospect, I realized that at 4:00 in the morning there was already a telephone location in Judea.".
The mother also explained why the recordings of the calls were only released after the bodies were found, "We were afraid that the children were still in captivity and that they would discover that the caller was Gil-Ad, we didn't want them to know that.""
Despite the police's failure, the mother says: "I was happy to hear that Gil-Ad was the one who called. I am not always available and can answer immediately. Citizens must know that in an emergency they have an address and an answer, even if it is no longer helpful.".
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