Rom Breslevski, one of the Israeli hostages shown in the Hamas videos
The European Union’s high representative for Foreign Affairs, Kaja Kallas, required the immediate release of Israeli hostages displayed in videos published by Islamist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, considering the “terrifying” images.
In a statement released this Sunday, Benjamin NetanyahuIsraeli Prime Minister expressed “deep dismay” with the latest videos released by Hamas and the Islamic Jihad Allied of Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip.
“Prime Minister Netanyahu expressed deep dismay With the recordings released by the terrorist organization Hamas and told families that efforts to bring back all our hostages continue and will continue to rest, ”reads the note.
On Thursday, the publication, by the Islamite groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, of three videos showing two Israeli hostages caused Great commotion in Israel and rekindled the debate about the need to reach as soon as possible to a deal to free them.
According to Israel’s statement, Netanyahu “had a long conversation” with the “families of Rom Breslevski and Evyatar David“The two Israelites shown in the videos, which were made hostage 665 days ago.
In the images, the hostages appear visibly weakened and thinnuma staging that aims to establish a parallel with the current humanitarian situation in Gaza ,.
“Hamas’s cruelty has no limits”, Commented also Netanyahu, adding that“ while the state of Israel allows the entry of humanitarian aid to the inhabitants of Gaza, the Hamas militants are deliberately to kill hostages to hunger and filming them in a cynical and hateful way. ”
Kaja KallasThe High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs required the immediate release of Israelite hostages on Sunday.
“The images of the Israeli hostages are terrifying and demonstrate barbarism from Hamas. All hostages must be immediately and unconditionally released”, Kallas on social networks.
“Hamas has to testify the weapons and end their domain About Gaza, ”said Kaja Kallas.“ At the same time, the Humanitarian aid on a large scale It has to be authorized and has to reach the needy“, He defended.
Evyatar David and Rom Braslavski, both 24, were kidnapped when They were in a music festivalduring October 7, 2023, in what was considered the “”, which began the war.
In the video of Evyatar David appears the phrase “They eat what we eat”, With images of undernourished children in Gaza, alternated with those of the hostage, which is closed in what appears to be a tunneland Prime Minister Netanyahu.
On Friday, UNICEF’s deputy executive director, Ted chaibanwarned that “one in three people in Gaza spends days without eatingAnd that children in Gaza are “to die at an unprecedented rhythm“According to one from the UN agency, more than 18,000 children have already died in Gaza since the Hamas attack.
