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The images had caused an additional shock wave in Israel. Tourned and broadcast by hostage takers, they showed an Israeli last week, Evyatar David, 24, emaciated body and face, forced to simulate in a tunnel the digging of his own grave. Tuesday in Geneva, the mother of the hostage, Galia David, met the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mirjana Spooljaric, alongside other mothers and relatives of Israeli hostages. “It is an extreme emergency mission,” noted the Israeli ambassador Daniel Meron, who supervised family members.
On several occasions in the past, relatives of the hostages as well as various members of the government attacked the ICRC, on the grounds that it would not do enough to help them. Following the dissemination of images by Hamas, Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu had requested ICRC help to provide them with food and medical treatment. The meeting with Mirjana Spooljaric “was very sincere”, explained on Tuesday the mother of Guy Gilboa Dalal, another of the hostages selected. “We understand his need for neutrality.”