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Brother of hostage Evyatar David to brief UN Security Council special session
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleNava Freiberg is The Times of Israel's deputy diplomatic correspondent.
Ilay David, the elder brother of hostage Evyatar David, is set to brief the United Nations Security Council at a special session on the situation of Gaza hostages in New York this evening, according to Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar’s office.
Ilay will address the council remotely, while Sa’ar — who requested an urgent meeting of the Council after Evyatar and hostage Rom Braslavski appeared severely emaciated in videos released by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in recent days — will speak in person at the New York meeting.
On Saturday, after the video of his brother was released by Hamas, Ilay accused the terror group of using hostages as “live hunger experiments” and called on the government of Israel and world leaders to bring about the hostages’ release “by any means necessary.”
The UNSC session will take place at 3 p.m. New York time (10 p.m. Israel time). Shortly ahead of the discussion, at 2:45 p.m. New York time, Sa’ar is set to hold a press conference outside the UNSC.
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