Germany condemns Hamas for treatment of freed hostages
08 February 2025 |
7:20 pm
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock condemned Hamas on Saturday for "forcing" the three latest Israeli hostages freed by the Palestinian militant group to speak before large crowds of its supporters. Though welcoming their release, Baerbock said it was "intolerable that Hamas has again shown the three men in public... and forced them to give 'interviews',"…
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock condemned Hamas on Saturday for “forcing” the three latest Israeli hostages freed by the Palestinian militant group to speak before large crowds of its supporters.
Though welcoming their release, Baerbock said it was “intolerable that Hamas has again shown the three men in public… and forced them to give ‘interviews’,” in a post on social network Bluesky.
One of the hostages freed, 56-year-old Ohad Ben Ami, has dual Israeli-German citizenship.
His wife Raz was also taken hostage in Hamas’s October 7 attack. She was freed after 54 days.
Baerbock said Raz Ben Ami, also an Israeli-German national, was relieved that “14 months after her own release, she can hold her husband in her arms again”.
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