Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the ICRC help on Sunday to provide “food” and “medical treatment” to Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip, after the Hamas dissemination of video captives.
The broadcast, since Thursday, by the Palestinian Islamist movement and its ally of Islamic jihad of three videos showing two very weakened Israeli hostages, rekindled in Israel the debate on the need to reach an agreement as quickly as possible to release these captives, removed during the unprecedented Hamas attack in Israel of October 7, 2023.
In the Palestinian territory, devastated by almost 22 months of war launched by this attack and threatened with “generalized famine” according to the UN, the civil defense reported 26 people killed during the day by Israeli fire or bombardments. Nine of them expected aid in the south near a center of the GHF, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, supported by Israel and the United States.
Benjamin Netanyahu “spoke with the head of the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross in our region”, and “requested his involvement to provide food for our hostages and provide them with immediate medical treatment,” said his office.
On X, this delegation expressed its “dismay” after the recent videos, claiming that this “disastrous situation must stop”. The ICRC declined any other immediate comment.
The Israeli Prime Minister, under high pressure in his country to obtain the return of the hostages, had previously expressed, via his services, his “deep dismay at the recordings broadcast”, and assured of the continuation of “efforts to bring all our hostages”.