Several countries have reacted to the shocking images released by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, two terrorist groups, over the weekend showing inhuman hostages in the Gaza Strip.
In the two published videos appear the hostages Rom Braslavski, 22, and Evyatar David, 24, both very thin and critical health. The two are part of the 20 supposedly alive hostages that remain in Gaza, next to another 30 dead.
Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz again condemned Hamas’s terrorist acts in an interview with the newspaper Bildin which he mentioned the videos of the Israeli hostages held at the Palestinian enclave for almost two years.
According to him, the images expose the reason that Hamas is pressured to abandon any political participation in the future of Gaza. In the interview with BildMerz said he was “dismayed” with the situation.
Despite the condemnation of the terrorists, the German chancellor stressed that Israel should not respond to Hamas’s “cynicism” with the blockade of humanitarian aid to Palestinians.
France president Emmanuel Macron also reacted to shocking videos released by terrorists over the weekend, classifying them as an “abject cruelty.”
In X, he asked the immediate release of Israel’s hijacked hostages and defended the total demilitarization of Hamas.
“We need the full demilitarization of Hamas, its complete exclusion from any form of governance and Israel’s recognition by the state of Palestine,” said Macron, who has been pressuring more countries recognized a Palestinian state.
In the United Kingdom, Foreign Minister David Lammy condemned Hamas’s “disgusting propaganda” with hostage images in a critical health.
Lammy added that the British government is working with partners in a long -term solution and a peace plan for the region. “This should start with an immediate ceasefire that release hostages, as well as with the removal of inhuman restrictions on humanitarian aid,” he said at X.
European Union (EU), Kaja Kallas, said the videos released by terrorists expose Hamas’s “barbarism”. She demanded that the terrorist group disarm and release the remaining hostages.
On Saturday (2), the armed arm of Hamas, the al-Qassam brigades, released a video of the Israeli hostage Evyatar David, exposing his extreme thinness, in which he digs his own pit inside a tunnel in the Gaza Strip.
“What I’m digging is my own grave,” says the 24 -year -old while wearing a shovel against the earth inside a tunnel of just a meter wide in the track.
At the end of the video, the young man collapses on his shovel after asking for a truce that allows him to return home with his family, and the Islamic group shows the text: “Only a ceasefire agreement can bring them back alive.”
On Thursday (31), the Islamic Jihad Palestine published another video of the hostage Rom Braslavski, also visibly malnourished, in which he kept crying by asking the government to allow food to enter Gaza. Hamas usually publishes hostage videos, a psychological pressure tool about Israel, at critical moments of ceasefire negotiations in Gaza.
