The family of one of the Israelis still held hostage by Hamas has claimed that a Red Cross worker said they should focus on Gazans and not their loved-one’s needed daily medication.
Speaking to Jake Tapper on CNN, Doron Steinbrecher’s brother Dor claimed the Red Cross worker made the comment as his mother raised concerns about the 30-year-old’s needed medication.
‘She told them that my sister needs to get her medicine, and they told her we should care more about the Arab people on the other side,’ Dor said, prompting Tapper to describe the claim as ‘shocking.’
‘My sister should take her medication on a daily basis. She probably hasn’t taken it since Oct 7,’ Dor said before acknowledging he does know know if Doron is still alive.
Dor added: ‘All the hostages who came back, no one [has seen] her in Gaza. We didn’t have any sign of life for her.’
Doron Steinbrecher’s brother Dor claimed the Red Cross worker made the comment as his mother raised concerns about the 30-year-old’s needed medication
Doron, a nurse and veterinarian from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, called her mother as the attack unfolded and she hid under her bed in a safe room, before Hamas terrorists found her
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On Friday, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will send medicine to the hostages for the first time since the October 7 attacks, following talks between the Mossad and Qatari officials.
Dor and Doron’s parents Roni and Simons Steinbrecher previously claimed they had been reprimanded by the Red Cross after asking for their daughter’s meds.
Roni said they told her: ‘Think about the Palestinian side. It’s hard for the Palestinians, they’re being bombed.’
Doron, a nurse and veterinarian from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, called her mother as the attack unfolded and she hid under her bed in a safe room, before Hamas terrorists found her.
Elderly women, young mothers and frightened children were taken and used as gambling chips to further the cause of a terror group that killed 1,300 Israelis on October 7, the single deadliest day in the Jewish nation’s history.
The war that has already killed at least 15,000 civilians in Gaza, according to figures deemed trustworthy by the UN.
With negotiations stalling following the collapsed ceasefire, dozens of Israelis remain captive in Gaza as the war rages on.
Israel’s ambassador to the UN earlier this week begged the general assembly not to forget the young women held hostage by Hamas.
Gilad Erdan showed this newspaper’s haunting images of four bloodied and bruised teenagers, taken hours after they were kidnapped, to the delegates in New York.
On Tuesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Israel to work with moderate Palestinians and neighboring countries on plans for postwar Gaza, saying they were willing to help rebuild and govern the territory but only if there is a ‘pathway to a Palestinian state.’
Homes were left burnt after Hamas terrorists attacked Doran’s kibbutz during the October 7th massacre
The war that has already killed at least 15,000 civilians in Gaza, according to figures deemed trustworthy by the UN
The US and Israel are united in the war against Hamas but sharply divided over Gaza’s future, with Washington and its Arab allies hoping to revive the long-moribund peace process, an idea that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and his coalition partners sharply oppose.
The war in Gaza is still raging, with no end in sight, and fueling a humanitarian catastrophe in the tiny coastal enclave. The fighting has also stoked escalating violence between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants that has raised fears of a wider conflict.
Speaking at a news conference after meeting with top Israeli leaders, Blinken said Israel ‘must stop taking steps that undercut the Palestinians’ ability to govern themselves effectively.’
US officials have called for the Palestinian Authority, which currently administers parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, to take the reins in Gaza. Israeli leaders have rejected that idea but have not put forward a concrete plan beyond saying they will maintain open-ended military control over the territory.
Blinken has said that Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey agreed to begin planning for the reconstruction and governance of Gaza once the war ends. The leaders of Jordan, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority are set to meet Wednesday in Jordan’s southern Red Sea city of Aqaba