Israel's Netanyahu Urges Red Cross to Aid Hostages as More Palestinians Die From Hunger in Gaza
ISRAEL, AUG 4 – Netanyahu condemned Hamas's treatment of hostages as Nazi-like abuse and requested the Red Cross provide urgent food and medical aid to 49 captives, with 27 presumed dead, officials said.
- On Oct 7, 2023, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described Hamas’s treatment of hostages as 'Nazi-like abuse' after three videos showed them in a fragile state.
- Through three released videos, Hamas and Islamic Jihad show two hostages, Evyatar David and Rom Braslavski, visibly underweight and in poor health, with David digging a grave, as Netanyahu describes 'Nazi-like abuse.'
- Amid the ongoing crisis, data from the Hostages Families Forum shows 49 hostages remain in Gaza, including 27 believed dead, held in impossible conditions for over 660 days.
- On Saturday, tens of thousands of Israelis flooded Tel Aviv as international humanitarian groups called for action, with Netanyahu describing Hamas’s treatment as 'Nazi-like abuse.'
- Hamas says it will coordinate with the International Committee of the Red Cross to deliver aid only if Israel opens humanitarian corridors and halts air strikes.
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Hamas 'ready' to deliver Red Cross aid to hostages - if Israel halts airstrikes and re-opens humanitarian corridors
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Netanyahu asks Red Cross to help hostages in Gaza, as families warn against an ‘expanding war’
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The publication of the photo of two prisoners reduced to skin and bones indignant Israel. The Prime Minister asked for them to be seen by the Red Cross, the militiamen replied to leave the passes open. Tomorrow the issue at the UN
The images of almost starved hostages have shaken Israel. Hamas now wants to fulfil a request from the Red Cross, but it also sets conditions for this.

Hamas says it will allow aid for hostages if Israel halts airstrikes, opens permanent humanitarian corridors
Hamas said on Sunday it was prepared to coordinate with the Red Cross to deliver aid to hostages it holds in Gaza, if Israel meets certain conditions, after…
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