Sa’ar to fly to New York today for special UN Security Council session on hostages

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4 August 2025, 11:59 am

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Nava Freiberg is The Times of Israel's deputy diplomatic correspondent.

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, standing in front of an image of hostage Evyatar David, announces that he will visit New York for a UN Security Council session on the Gaza hostages, on August 4, 2025. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar will fly to New York this evening to take part in a special session of the United Nations Security Council on the issue of the Gaza hostages tomorrow morning, the minister announces at a Jerusalem press conference.

Speaking against a photo backdrop of hostage Evyatar David, Sa’ar adds that he requested that an urgent discussion of the UNSC be arranged after Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad released harrowing videos of David and hostage Rom Braslavski in recent days, in which they appeared severely emaciated.