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Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Meeting relatives of Gaza hostages, UK’s Sunak and Cameron pledge assistance
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleJessica Steinberg, The Times of Israel's culture and lifestyles editor, covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary David Cameron are said to have pledged that Britain will do everything it can to ensure the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas.
The pledge came as Sunak and Cameron met the families of Gaza hostages at a lunch organized by the Conservative Friends of Israel.
Sunak and Cameron met with Orly and Ran Gilboa, parents of Daniela Gilboa, 19; Eli Albag, father of Liri Albag, 18; Liran Berman, brother of twins Ziv and Gali Berman, 26; and Ziv Abd, the girlfriend of Eliya Cohen, 26.
They all pleaded with Sunak to do everything in his power to secure the release of the remaining hostages.
Albag said Sunak told him he “will try to move every stone in the world to bring my daughter and all the hostages back. Our family is destroyed,” reports The Guardian.
Albag adds that the family has spoken to released hostages who saw Liri Albag in captivity and reported back that she was “doing okay.”
Liran Berman said that the release of the hostages is in Qatar’s hands, “and we know that the UK has a lot of leverage on Qatar so we came here to ask — to beg, to demand — to stop this and to release all the hostages,” reports The Guardian.
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