Freed hostage in Berlin: Red Cross must visit those in captivity

While in Germany as part of efforts to lobby for the release of hostages in Gaza, freed hostage Ohad Ben Ami calls on the Red Cross to visit and assist those still in captivity, Channel 12 reports.

After being personally named by hostages Elkana Bohbot and Yosef-Haim Ohana in a Hamas propaganda video yesterday, Ben Ami has vowed to help bring the captives home.

“I left behind five friends who are the same age as my daughters,” says Ben Ami at a discussion in Berlin, referring to fellow hostages he was held with, according to Channel 12.

“I feel that I left behind my children,” he continues.

Ben Ami wrote yesterday after the release of the propaganda video that hostages “are lacking all hope and as we speak the conditions of their captivity are being worsened and their food is being reduced since we returned to fighting [in Gaza].”