Jerusalem, 4 August, 2025 (TPS-IL) — President Isaac Herzog, spoke by phone this evening, Monday, with President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mirjana Spoljaric, who is based in Geneva. The President conveyed the urgent danger facing the Israeli hostages and the need for immediate action to assist them.
“The hostages’ health condition is dire, and the evidence suggests a real and immediate threat to their lives,” he told Spoljaric. “The shocking footage of Evyatar David and Rom Braslavski, in which their bones are visibly protruding from their skin as a result of starvation. It underscores the urgent need to provide them with food and immediate medical care and reveals the extent of their suffering and the abuse and neglect they are end”
During the conversation, the President reiterated the urgent need for the Red Cross to intervene and provide medical assistance to the hostages, who are in critical condition and being deliberately starved as part of Hamas’s brutal manipulation — a blatant violation of international humanitarian law.