Parents of a murdered Israeli girl support the demands of parents of an IDF soldier who was killed during Operation Protective Edge in 2014.
Ron Kehrmann, whose 17-year-old daughter Tal was murdered in a suicide terror attack on a bus in Haifa in 2003, on Wednesday said he supported the demand by the parents of IDF soldier Oron Shaul that the government end the cushy conditions enjoyed by convicted terrorists in Israeli prisons.
"The wheel keeps turning, but the principle remains the same and only the names change.” Kehrmann, who has held similar public protests in the past, told Arutz Sheva.
“In 2011 [before the Gilad Shalit deal] we fought the government and urged it not to give in to terrorism. The prime minister did not succeed then in sending the message that it does not pay to kidnap soldiers or hold their bodies and today we are paying the price,” he continued, before adding that worsening the conditions of the terrorist prisoners will send the right message.
“We must stop this lenient treatment towards them, no TV and no going to school. War is not a pleasant thing, but there is no choice but to take off the gloves and start to fight if we want the bodies back,” said Kehrmann.
“It is inconceivable that the terrorists will not sit in jail for the rest of their lives. We should not engage in any negotiations with them. Until now six Israelis were killed by those released in 2011 [during the Gilad Shalit deal]. I support the Shaul family in their fight,” he stressed.
Bereaved father: Stop the terrorist prisoners' benefits
Ron Kehrmann, whose 17-year-old daughter Tal was murdered in a suicide terror attack on a bus in Haifa in 2003, on Wednesday said he supported the demand by the parents of IDF soldier Oron Shaul that the government end the cushy conditions enjoyed by convicted terrorists in Israeli prisons.
"The wheel keeps turning, but the principle remains the same and only the names change.” Kehrmann, who has held similar public protests in the past, told Arutz Sheva.
“In 2011 [before the Gilad Shalit deal] we fought the government and urged it not to give in to terrorism. The prime minister did not succeed then in sending the message that it does not pay to kidnap soldiers or hold their bodies and today we are paying the price,” he continued, before adding that worsening the conditions of the terrorist prisoners will send the right message.
“We must stop this lenient treatment towards them, no TV and no going to school. War is not a pleasant thing, but there is no choice but to take off the gloves and start to fight if we want the bodies back,” said Kehrmann.
“It is inconceivable that the terrorists will not sit in jail for the rest of their lives. We should not engage in any negotiations with them. Until now six Israelis were killed by those released in 2011 [during the Gilad Shalit deal]. I support the Shaul family in their fight,” he stressed.
Bereaved father: Stop the terrorist prisoners' benefits
