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Saturday, February 8, 2025
Israel’s UN envoy calls on Guterres to ‘condemn Hamas’s cruel and inhuman treatment of hostages’
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon demands that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “unequivocally condemn Hamas’s cruel and inhuman treatment of the hostages,” after three Israeli men were released from Gaza this morning in emaciated condition after 491 days in captivity.
He calls on the UN chief to demand the “unconditional release from the hell in Gaza” of the remaining 73 hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7, 2023.
“It is not the people of Gaza or Hamas operatives who are suffering from malnutrition—our hostages are,” Danon writes in a letter to Guterres.
As a result of the severe physical condition of Or, Eli, and Ohad, who were released earlier today from Hamas captivity, I urgently appealed to the UN Secretary-General to condemn Hamas's cruel and inhumane treatment of the hostages and to demand the unconditional release of all… pic.twitter.com/tCQAuTTb8o
— Danny Danon ???????? דני דנון (@dannydanon) February 9, 2025
