{"id":35077,"date":"2023-10-22T08:36:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T08:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/for-the-most-vulnerable-hostages-a-plea-for-mercy"},"modified":"2023-10-22T09:01:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T09:01:10","slug":"for-the-most-vulnerable-hostages-a-plea-for-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/for-the-most-vulnerable-hostages-a-plea-for-mercy","title":{"rendered":"For the Most Vulnerable Hostages, a Plea for Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Rut Hodaya Perez is in no shape to be held as a hostage in the Gaza Strip. A 17-year-old Israeli girl who has myotonic dystrophy, Rut cannot walk and uses a wheelchair.<\/p>\n

But that didn\u2019t stop Hamas gunmen from snatching her on Oct. 7 from a trance music festival near the Gaza border during their spree of kidnapping and slaughter.<\/p>\n

Rut is now among the large and varied group of captives that Hamas is believed to have dragged back to its underground labyrinth of tunnels in Gaza. \u201cShe is not built to live in a place like that,\u201d said her sister, Yamit.<\/p>\n

It has been two weeks since Hamas attacked Israel, massacring more than 1,400 people and kidnapping more than 200. While fears are growing for the safety of all of the hostages, held in conditions that would test even the strongest, the worries are especially intense for the most physically vulnerable like Rut.<\/p>\n

On Friday morning, Israeli military officials said that \u201cmost\u201d of the hostages were alive, and by Friday night, all those with loved ones held in Gaza received an added injection of hope when Israel and Hamas announced that two hostages, a mother and daughter who are dual American-Israeli citizens, had been freed.<\/p>\n

American officials said that representatives from Qatar, an American ally that maintains good relations with Hamas, had helped persuade the group, which controls Gaza, to free Judith Raanan, 59, and Natalie Raanan, 17.<\/p>\n

It was not clear why the Raanans were released before others. But for all those remaining, it\u2019s almost inconceivable what any of them, especially the neediest, are living through.<\/p>\n

They are being held at gunpoint by the same group that massacred their friends and loved ones. They are trapped in the densely packed Gaza enclave that Israeli warplanes are relentlessly bombing. All around them, food, water and medicine are running out, and fear, rage and hatred are escalating.<\/p>\n

Everyone inside Gaza, population two million, is facing a humanitarian crisis, and governments around the world have been urging the Israelis to allow in desperately needed aid, which finally began happening on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

Israeli officials said that Hamas had taken at least 20 children, including toddlers; more than a dozen people in their 60s, 70s and 80s; and people who suffer from Parkinson\u2019s disease, heart problems, diabetes and cancer.<\/p>\n

On top of that, several hostages were gravely wounded by gunshots and grenades during the terrorist attack. Family members and international organizations are beseeching Hamas to show mercy and release the old, the young, the sick and the wounded first.<\/p>\n

The International Committee of the Red Cross is one of the groups trying to help. Within two days of the attack, Red Cross officials said, they had approached Hamas leaders in Doha, Qatar.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe starting point \u2014 and I have a hard time getting away from this \u2014 is that there are people who should never be there,\u201d said Fabrizio Carboni, the organization\u2019s regional director for the Near and Middle East, in an interview this past week.<\/p>\n

In the past 10 days, he said, the Red Cross has met face to face and held numerous telephone calls with Hamas officials, but, \u201cconsidering the level of violence in Gaza, I see it as extremely complicated for us to do our work.<\/p>\n

\u201d<\/p>\n

Red Cross officials said they were asking Hamas leaders to offer \u201cproof of life,\u201d such as a message, phone call or video that would prove each person believed to be held captive is alive.<\/p>\n

The Red Cross is also asking Hamas to allow in medicine and to immediately release the hostages with urgent health needs, like Rut. \u201cThey should all be released, but the ones with specific medical conditions should be even more released than the others,\u201d Mr.<\/p>\n

Carboni said. \u201cThere is no way easily to provide the medical help they need in Gaza today,\u201d he added. \u201cWe asked for it. But today we are far from it, very far.<\/p>\n

\u201d For the hostages\u2019 families, it\u2019s been an anguishing, up-and-down week. The catastrophic blast on Tuesday at a crowded hospital in Gaza inflamed passions \u2014 and anti-Israeli feelings \u2014 around the world.<\/p>\n

Israel blamed the explosion on an errant rocket fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, another militant group in Gaza, while Hamas officials blamed an Israeli airstrike.<\/p>\n

Neither side\u2019s account could be independently verified, but the bottom line was immense suffering in Gaza and increased risks to the hostages\u2019 safety.<\/p>\n

Over the next few days, Israel continued to build up its forces along Gaza\u2019s border, gearing up to invade. Many families of the captives are praying that the Israelis delay the ground offensive until all the hostages are freed.<\/p>\n

There are few good options. Tactical experts say a rescue attempt would be too dangerous. Hamas has miles of underground tunnels in Gaza, and experts believe the hostages have been split up, and are kept under heavy guard, throughout this maze.<\/p>\n

Adding to the gloomy picture is the news that came at the end of this past week that Israeli soldiers had found bodies of Israelis along the border fence with Gaza. It\u2019s not clear when they were killed \u2014 during captivity or in the initial moments of the Oct. 7 attack.<\/p>\n

Either way, hostages\u2019 families are now under tremendous stress, answering each phone call with trembling fingers not knowing if they are about to learn whether the people they love most are dead or alive.<\/p>\n

And for the hostages who are sick or hurt, time is not on their side. Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, a California native who moved to Israel with his family 15 years ago, is a captive in Gaza whose arm was blown off by a grenade during the attack.<\/p>\n

He was filmed in a video being loaded into a Hamas truck, blood dripping from a stump above his left elbow. Rotem Revivi, a close friend, said it was \u201cobvious\u201d that if Mr. Goldberg-Polin\u2019s arm weren\u2019t properly treated, \u201cit could be that he isn\u2019t with us anymore. \u201d<\/p>\n

Hagai Levine, an official with the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, an organization that sprang into existence in Tel Aviv to help the hostages\u2019 families, believes the International Committee of the Red Cross needs to \u201cdo more,\u201d like publishing a list of all missing people and hostages.<\/p>\n

Red Cross officials say they are trying to get this information and are drawing on their experiences from other Middle East conflicts. The organization helped repatriate thousands of prisoners during Israel\u2019s wars with its neighbors, going back decades. It maintains an office in Gaza, where, Mr.<\/p>\n

Carboni said, his people were staying in \u201cawful conditions\u201d to facilitate the release of hostages, like they did on Friday night when Hamas handed over the Raanans and they stepped into a purring Red Cross truck, according to a short video Hamas released. Israeli officials said that Palestinian Islamic Jihad is also holding some captives.<\/p>\n

Musab Al-Breim, a spokesman for that group, known to work closely with Hamas, said this week that \u201cthere is only one way that the prisoners will return, and that is if our prisoners are freed,\u201d referring to the thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Hostage experts say this is one of the most complicated hostage standoffs ever.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an enormous group of captives, kept in a raging war zone, with hostages coming from many different countries, aged from under 1 to over 85, including civilians kidnapped from their homes or a party in the desert as well as active-duty Israeli soldiers captured from burning tanks.<\/p>\n

Even the simplest communication, like a phone call to those in captivity, is difficult. \u201cNonstate armed groups, with whom we are in contact, are very, very careful on how they establish contact with us because they know that through technology they could be traced,\u201d Mr.<\/p>\n

Carboni said. But all that aside, Mr. Carboni said, \u201cit\u2019s unthinkable\u201d that so many children have been kidnapped. He added that \u201cthis indignation is not at the expense of our indignation for the kids of Gaza,\u201d who, he said, have grown up facing \u201cunbelievable brutality and violence.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t add violence to violence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to stop this.\u201d<\/p>\n


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