Gaza war
Hamas: Red cross can supply hostages under conditions
Updated on 03.08.2025 – 11:28 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
The pictures of almost starved hostages have shaken Israel. Hamas now wants to meet a request from the Red Cross. But she also poses conditions for this.
According to its own statements, the terrorist organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip is ready to have the Israeli hostages covered by it with food and medication – but under extensive conditions.
A spokesman for the Al-Kassam brigades, the military arm of the Hamas, said in their telegram channel, was positively answered in this regard. However, the condition is that Israel enables comprehensive and permanent care for the Palestinian civilian population in the Gaza Strip. In addition, Israel had to stop any air reconnaissance during the time, in the help of the hostages.
Shortly before, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had spoken to the regional ICRK delegation manager Julien Lerisson, and asked him to work for the Red Cross to immediately provide the Israeli hostages with food and medication.
The image sequences have shaken the Israeli public at the weekend and many people worldwide. Hamas had also used hostage videos as a means of psychological warfare in the past. In Israel there is suspicion that in this case the Islamists brought their kidnapping victims specifically to the edge of starvation in order to put pressure on the Netanyahu government with the territory.
Hamas is aiming for a termination of the Gaza War on its conditions. It would release the hostages if Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip and hires all fighting against Hamas. Israel in turn demands exiling the Islamists and the course of their squad. Hamas decides that.
In addition to the 20 living hostages, the terrorist organization has the remains of a further 28 to 30 deported in their violence. So far, months of efforts to bring about an ceasefire through indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas and to bring about the release of the hostages have so far been unsuccessful.
