After meeting Trump and Starmer, released hostage Eli Sharabi to address UN Security Council

Eli Sharabi, a former hostage released from Hamas captivity in Gaza last month, will speak before the United Nations Security Council this week about what he endured in captivity.

The upcoming address, set to take place on Wednesday or Thursday, comes at the initiative of Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon, who tells Ynet he has “no doubt that the Security Council ambassadors will no longer be able to turn a blind eye to reality and do nothing for our hostages. We will not stop, and we will not be silent, until all the hostages are brought home.”

This continues a global campaign by Sharabi to advocate for the release of all remaining hostages in Gaza, after he met earlier this month with US President Donald Trump in the White House, and with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer at 10 Downing Street.

This followed Sharabi’s harrowing interview with Channel 12’s “Uvda” program, in which he described the nearly 500 days he was held in Hamas tunnels, when he lost some 30 kilograms (66 pounds).

Sharabi was released from captivity on February 8, and only then learned that his wife Lianne and their daughters, Noiya, 16, and Yahel, 13, were murdered by Palestinian terrorists in their home’s safe room in Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7, 2023, while he and his elder brother Yossi were taken captive. The IDF said last month that Yossi was likely accidentally killed in an IDF strike in Gaza. His body is still being held by Hamas terrorists.