Danny Elgarat, whose brother Itzik was murdered in Hamas captivity, accused Likud MK Elisha Medan of hypocrisy on Sunday, November 15, in a sharply worded post on X criticizing the protest tent Madan has set up outside the Knesset to call for a broad national unity government.
"Elisha Medan, this is hypocrisy, not unity," Elgarat wrote. "When I was on hunger strike for 180 days for the return of the hostages and to end the abandonment, I did not see you stand by my side. I did not hear you cry out my cry, and I did not see you share the burden of the struggle with me."
"Now you call for unity? Unity is not a slogan you wave when it's convenient," he continued. "It is measured precisely in the moments when someone is fighting for the values you claim to believe in. You call for unity, but when you were needed to stand beside those fighting for the hostages, you weren't there. That is not unity. That is hypocrisy."
Medan announced at the end of last week that he would set up a tent outside the Knesset and stay in it as part of a public call for a broad national unity government. "I came to the Knesset to help this people remain one people," he said in a video posted on social media.
Medan was sworn in as a Knesset member only a few days ago. He was seriously wounded in a battle in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, and lost both of his legs. Four of his comrades were killed in the same incident. At his swearing-in ceremony, Madan stood despite his pain and complex medical condition, a gesture that drew a long ovation in the chamber.
