Goldknopf: Shake with prayer and shouting, not with roadblocks and strikes

September 3, 2024   

The chairman of United Torah Judaism, Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, rejected today (Tuesday) at the conference to sign the umbrella agreement in the city of Netivot the claims that the government is delaying a deal to release the kidnapped. "The Blessed One said: 'The voice of your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground.' We have come to know this verse as an expression of a demand for revenge for the blood of innocently murdered people - the blood cries out. This week we received another and tangible interpretation of the fact that our brother's blood cries out to us from the ground - from the tunnels. "Under the soil of Gaza are the kidnapped men and women. Unfortunately, not only those who are no longer among the living, may God raise their blood, but also the blood of the living cries out to us from the ground. The 101 kidnapped are waiting and begging and the world is silent. The world stands by. The Prime Minister and the government of Israel do not spare a minute from dealing with these issues," he said. He emphasized: "Make no mistake, there is no deal here that we oppose. There is no deal at all because Hamas opposes it!" The minister added: "The kidnapped are shouting to us and saying: Shout and shake the sky! Not by blocking roads and strikes, but by doing everything we can to shake the sky and the earth with prayer and shouting, so that all the kidnapped people remaining in Gaza will soon return to their families.".