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Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2003540/gaza-hostages-hamas-red-cross
Time to Call Out Hamas and Demand Red Cross Access to Hostages
(Daily Express-UK) Angela Epstein - Not once has the Red Cross visited the Israeli hostages in Gaza, despite the fact that their very mandate is to visit innocent kidnapped individuals and ensure their well-being. Now is the time for the Red Cross to launch a voluble, deafening protest at the continued refusal to allow them access to the remaining hostages. They need to roar that they have as much right to provide succor to the captured Israelis as the trucks of humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza. Given that the ceasefire deal promises to release only 33 hostages of the 94 in the next 42 days, there is ample scope to do their job. Every day the hostages spend in captivity is a day too long. Bad enough they could do nothing for the many hostages who have already been killed, but if the Red Cross doesn't act for the living, then what use are they at all?