Hostage families set to take off for Hague to bring war crimes case against Hamas

Some 100 representatives of families of hostages are set to take off for the Hague, where they plan to file a war crimes complaint Wednesday against the leaders of the terror organization at the International Criminal Court.

At a tarmac press conference organized by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, Ofri Bibas, whose brother Yarden is being held in Gaza as well as Yarden’s wife Shiri and their two small children, says they are at the mercy of “terrorists who killed, raped and tortured, and it is not ending.”\

Speakers say they hope to warn the world that Hamas’s terror can spread to Europe, North America and elsewhere.

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“Today we will make history,” says Bibas. “This is an important part of our struggle, as citizens of our country and of the world, to say ‘no more.’ This is not just our story, if we don’t stop this, tomorrow it will be world’s story.”

Inbar Goldstein, whose brother Nadav was killed and whose nephews were freed, says the families are traveling in the hope of achieving some measure of justice through the world body.

“We are going to the International Criminal Court so they can see and we can be seen. We are going to yell the yell of those whose voices cannot be heard,” she says. “We are going to ensure that we are not just watching history as it happens but writing it, in practice, with ourselves and in our words.”