The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamín Netanyahu, asked this Sunday to the International Red Cross Committee that supplies food and medical care “immediate“To the hostages that Hamas retains in Gaza, collects a statement released by his office.
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with the head of the Red Cross delegation in our region, Julian Larison, and requested his participation in the food supply to our hostages and in providing them with immediate medical attention,” the note collects.
The request of the Israeli president arrives after Hamas and Islamic jihad disseminated in recent days Images of two familic captives And in very poor health, they have shocked their relatives after more than a year and a half kidnapped.
“(…) Hamas’s lie about famine resonates throughout the world, while systematic famine is directed against our hostages, who suffer brutal physical and mental abuse. The world cannot remain impassive before the impressive images that Nazis crimes remember,” Netanyahu transferred to Larison during the phone call.
The Qasam brigades, Hamas’s armed arm, released a new video of the Hostén David, 24, in which he shows an extreme thinness and in which he asks for an agreement That allows him to return home, in addition to Israel letting Gaza enter food.
Since the Israeli offensive against Gaza began, after Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, at least 175 people have died of hunger or malnutrition, including 93 minors, according to the registration of local health authorities.
Most deaths have been recorded during the last weeks, After months of blocking at the entrance of humanitarian aid by Israel, who controls all accesses to the besieged territory. Between March 2 and May 19 the blockade was total, while the help flow is now very limited.
Hamas conditions international medical care to the total reopening of Gaza aid
The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas He has been receptive to Netanyahu’s request. In a series of messages published in his Telegram account, the spokesman of the Militias de Hamás, Abú Obeida, has declared that the Ezzeldín al Qassam brigades that it represents are prepared “to positively address any request from the Red Cross to bring food and medicines to enemy prisoners.”
However, the Militias spokesman has warned that The fundamental condition To give green light to the operation consists of “the normal and permanent opening of humanitarian corridors for the passage of food and medicines to the entire Palestinian people in all areas of the Gaza Strip.”
The Brigades spokesman has approached The accusations expressed by the Israeli government that accuse the militias of torturing the Israeli hostages, which has categorically denied, and insisted that the situation of the kidnapped is the result of the Israeli block that is subjecting to the starvation to the population of Gaza.
“We are not hungry to our prisoners: they are receiving the same meal as the warriors and that our people receives,” said Abú Obeida before warning that hostages “They will not receive any special privilege in view of the famine and the siege imposed on Gaza”
