A relative of one of the hostages held against their will in Gaza criticized former President Barack Obama for arguing that “nobody’s hands are clean” as it relates to the circumstances that led up to Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack.

Yael Angel’s nephew Ofir, 18, a dual Dutch Israeli citizen, was visiting his girlfriend in a kibbutz near the Gaza border when he was kidnapped by the terrorists that carried out the attack. He’s one of the more than 200 people still held in Gaza, their well-being unknown, while five have been saved.

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“Two hundred and forty people are held hostage and the world is silent, and there are ‘buts’ and ‘perhapses,’" she said on Channel 12 news, according to the Times of Israel. "I’d like to see Mr. Obama if one of his daughters was held hostage by Hamas. In two days, she’d be out, and there’d be no ‘buts’. There are no buts or perhapses. Hamas can be destroyed.”

Her comments came in response to Obama, who said on Pod Save America, a podcast hosted by four of his former aides, "If you want to solve the problem, then you have to take in the whole truth, and you then have to admit nobody's hands are clean, that all of us are complicit to some degree."

“What Hamas did was horrific, and there’s no justification for it,” Obama said, “and what is also true is that the occupation and what’s happening to Palestinians is unbearable, and what is also true is that there is a history of the Jewish people that may be dismissed unless your grandparents or your great-grandparents or your uncle or your aunt tell you stories about the madness of antisemitism, and what is true is that there are people right now who are dying, who have nothing to do with what Hamas did.”

The Biden administration has loudly and frequently reiterated its support for Israel as it carries out its military operations to remove Hamas from power in Gaza and to strip it of its military capabilities but has also repeatedly urged it to do more to prevent the loss of civilian life.

The Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry has said the death toll has exceeded 10,000 people, though that total includes both civilians and combatants. U.S. officials have questioned the validity of the tally, while Barbara Leaf, the assistant secretary of the Bureau of Near East Affairs for the State Department, acknowledged this week, “We think they’re very high, frankly, and it could be that they’re even higher than are being cited.”

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The hostages have been held for more than a month now, and there has seemingly been little progress as it relates to a large-scale release.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly said Israel will not agree to any permanent ceasefire without the release of the hostages.