Sa’ar urges counterparts not to remain silent in face of ‘sadistic abuse’ of hostages

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar is initiating a special session of the UN Security Council on the issue of the Israeli hostages, after Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad released propaganda videos over the weekend in which hostages Rom Braslavski and Evyatar David appeared severely emaciated, the Foreign Ministry says.

In an English-language statement on the matter, the ministry says Sa’ar expects his counterparts worldwide to “publicly express a moral and ethical stance and to exert every possible influence to end the terrible suffering of the Israeli hostages.”

“The world cannot remain silent in the face of the difficult images that are the result of deliberate sadistic abuse of the hostages, which also includes starvation by Hamas and Islamic Jihad,” says Sa’ar, in a message accompanying the statement.