PM calls on foreign envoys to pressure Red Cross daily for access to hostages

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells a gathering of foreign envoys to Israel that their countries must join Israel’s pressure on the International Committee of the Red Cross to demand the ability to visit the some 240 hostages held in Gaza.

Netanyahu tells the ambassadors that he spoke yesterday with the ICRC chief and reiterated “the demand to release the hostages without conditions immediately, access to the hostages and information about the captives — things that international humanitarian law demands, which Hamas is violating.”

The prime minister tells the envoys that “you must support this demand and demand it yourselves every day: We want the hostages to be released immediately without conditions. We want information about them. We want the Red Cross to have access to them.”

More than 100 of the hostages are said to hold foreign citizenship.