erusalem deputy mayor demands 'proof of life' of hostages, assurance before Biden humanitarian aide hits Gaza
Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum tells Fox News Digital Biden must ensure Gazan aide doesn't fall into the hands of Hamas terrorists
By Danielle Wallace Fox News
Published October 19, 2023 5:44pm EDT
The deputy mayor of Jerusalem demanded "proof of life" for the more than 200 hostages estimated to have been taken from Israel by Hamas militants and other assurances before humanitarian aide promised by President Biden or any other government arrives in Gaza for Palestinians.
"The first thing we need is proof of life. We haven't had anything," Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum told Fox News Digital. "We haven't had the Red Cross being able to see them. We haven't had the U.N. even talking about the hostages. What happens to our hostages is three and five-month-old babies and their mothers, mothers with three children, young women serially raped, paraded down the street, an old lady with dementia in a wheelchair, people ridiculing her down the street and abusing her. Who are these people and why?"
"This is something that I think we cannot give up on the hostages," she said, speaking from Israel via Zoom. "We need to demand, if you want humanitarian assistance, we understand that. But we need our hostages to be a priority for all governments and for our government. And any type of humanitarian assistance has to be conditional on the assurance that our hostages, especially the injured ones, will at least be having medical treatment. And we haven't had any assurances of anything."
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