Momoffourboys
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IMO that was part of the ceasefire agreement. The Red Cross was to be granted access to the hostages.ETA She mentions Red Cross. Not ICRCThat's Hama's fault. Not the ICRC. If the ICRC doesn't have access to the hostages, then they can't provide meds. Did Hamas contact the ICRC? Because the hostages were hidden and I believe they were only contacted when they were released. I don't know how the ICRC could help if they didn't have access to the hostages.
This from Rachel Goldberg Polin:
While the family has been reaching out to the Red Cross and other humanitarian organizations every day since October 7, they have been told by each organization that they would be willing to visit the hostages but that Hamas wasn’t letting them in.
“We thought they were not pushing enough,” said Goldberg. “Then the Red Cross went in to see Gaza civilians.”
Goldberg-Polin’s parents and other families of the hostages then hoped the Red Cross would see one hostage for each Gazan civilian, “but that didn’t happen either,” said Goldberg.
Red Cross yet to see remaining hostages, despite US and Israeli claims such visits were part of truce
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www.timesofisrael.com
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