RootsWestern leaders have condemned the video of Israeli hostages filmed by their prisoners in Gaza, in which Red Cross has called for access to all the rest in captivity.
UK Foreign Secretary David Lemi said that “the hostage parades for publicity are illnessing the images being ill” and they should be “unconditionally” issued.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad on Thursday made calls after the video published videos of Rome Braslavsky, thin and crying and Hamas released footage of a weak Evatar David on Saturday.
Israeli leaders accused Hamas of keeping the hostage hungry.
Hamas’s armed wing deliberately stared at the prisoners and said what their fighters and people eat amidst the crisis of hunger in Gaza.
Braslavsky, 21, and David, 24, both were taken hostage from the Nova Music Festival on 7 October 2023 during the Hamas -led attack on Southern Israel.
They are among the 49 hostages, originally taken out of 251, which Israel says that it is still being held in Gaza. It includes 27 hostages who are considered dead.
After the video was released, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with two hostage families, “a deep blow” and told them that efforts to return all the hostages would “continue and continuously”.
On Sunday, Netanyahu spoke to the head of the Red Cross in the region, requesting his immediate participation in providing food and medical care to the hostages.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) stated that it was “wasted” by the video that “gave a clear evidence of life-dreamed of situations, in which the hostages are being held”.
Charity reiterated his call to provide access to hostages to assess its position, gave them medical aid and facilitated contact with their families.
Hamas’s armed wing al-Kasam Brigade said that it would react positively to any red cross request to give food and medicine to prisoners, if the human corridors were opened in Gaza on a regular and permanent basis, and stopped at the time of receiving assistance.
The Red Cross has faced heavy criticism in Israel on its role in war, claiming that it has failed to help the hostages held in Gaza.
Earlier this year, amidst anger over chaotic scenes, the hostages were freed as part of a deal between Israel and Hamas, the organization explained the limitations of its role, saying that it depends on the goodwill of the warning parties working in the struggle areas.
Palestinians have also been criticized, as the group has not been allowed to visit Palestinian prisoners to see Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails since 7 October 2023.
Over the weekend in Tel Aviv, a crowd of protesters and hostage families gathered once again, calling the Israeli government to secure the release of hostages.
The families of David and Braslavsky said at a rally on Saturday that “everyone should now get out of hell.”
In a video, Braslavsky is seen crying because he says that he has gone out of food and water and eaten only three “pieces of phelfels” that day. He says he is unable to stand or walk, and “is at the door of death”.
Braslavsky’s family said in a statement, “They managed to break Rome” and begged Israel and American leaders to bring their son home.
“He just forgot there,” he said.
OtherIn the second video, David said “I did not eat for days … I got barely drinking water” and is seen digging what he says that it would be his own grave.
His family said that he was “deliberately and in Gaza a living skeleton, alive burial” in Hamas’s tunnels.
OtherGerman Chancellor Frederick Merz stated that they were “wasted” by images, adding the release of all the hostages was an essential condition for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
The French President Emmanuel Macron, who said that Hamas is a symbol of “rejects cruelty”, said that French continues to tireless efforts towards the release of the hostages, to restore a ceasefire and enable humanitarian aid to enter Gaza.
He said that this effort should be with a political solution, with a two-state solution “with Israel and Palestine peacefully shoulder to shoulder”. France recently announced its intention to recognize a Palestinian kingdom with Canada and UK under certain conditions. Israel has strongly condemned the tricks.
Images of the weak hostages are coming out because un-assured agencies have said that “the worst situation of famine is currently playing” in Gaza, reported daily with the death of malnutrition.
The Hamas-Interested Health Ministry said on Sunday that 175 people, including 93 children, died of malnutrition since the war started.
United Nations, aid agencies and some associates from Israel blamed the hunger crisis on Israeli sanctions on the entry and distribution of humanitarian aid. Israel denied the allegation and convicted Hamas.
Despite heavy evidence, part of Israeli officials and the country’s press, strongly rejects that there is starvation in Gaza, and says that the crisis is coined by Hamas and spread by international media.
Some pictures of weakened children are displayed by Israeli protesters, calling to a deal with Hamas, but many people in Israel are unaware of the Emergency limits there.
As the war continues, Israel faced the growth of international isolation, as the widespread destruction in Gaza and the suffering of the Palestinians expressed displeasure.
Elections around the world show that public opinion about Israel is rapidly negative, which is pressurizing the leaders to take action.
