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Mother of hostage Alon Ohel says Israel should have conditioned Gaza aid on hostages receiving medical treatment
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Idit Ohel, the mother of hostage Alon Ohel, tells the Kan public broadcaster that she believes Israel should have demanded that the hostages receive medical treatment as a condition for allowing humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip.
“I want the prime minister to ensure that my son and the other hostages receive medical treatment outside of Gaza, by any means,” she says. “My Alon is wounded and hungry.”
“Giving medical treatment to our hostages should have been a condition for the entry of food into Gaza,” says Ohel. “The world forgot that this all began when Hamas kidnapped innocent civilians.”
She says she knows “many things” about her son’s ill health, as returning hostages who were held with him have painted a dire picture, but she doesn’t know “the most important thing: when I’ll see my son again, when he’s coming home.”
She pleads for Israel to do “everything it can” to return the hostages, and for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ensure that the Red Cross is given access to the hostages.
Ohel, 24, was abducted from the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023.
Following their release in February, former hostages Eli Sharabi and Or Levy told Ohel’s family that they had been held in captivity with him, and that he was suffering from multiple untreated injuries, including shrapnel in his eye and his arm.
The Times of Israel Community.