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‘B-movie general’: Israel’s hostage point man draws scorn from angry families

Retired army officer Gal Hirsch becomes lightning rod for fury as most of those held remain in Hamas’s captivity

In the spring of 2018, the retired general Gal Hirsch stood on a tiny sliver of land occupied by Israel, and reminisced about fighting Hizbollah in Lebanon.

“I killed Arabs there,” he said, pointing to one hill, with his firearm poking out of his trousers. “I fought them there, and there.”

But, he wistfully told a Financial Times reporter, the fight was abandoned before victory. Now the divisive former soldier — who was investigated by the Israel Defense Forces for his failures in the 2006 Lebanon war and was denied a high-ranking police role after a tax evasion probe — has taken on a different battle.

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