Hostages Did Not Get Their Medicines

The Israeli operation in the Nasser hospital in the Gaza Strip has not only captured many terrorists, but the soldiers have found many packets of medication that were intended for the Israelis who were taken hostage.

Some of the medication seems to have been sent in the early weeks of the war, as they were for hostages who were released during the ceasefire in November. But other packages appear to have been sent in the mid-January agreement to send in large quantities of medication for the Gazan people alongside medication for the remaining hostages.

In that agreement, Israel sent 1,000 boxes of medicines for Gazan people for every box that was provided for the hostages. Now it looks as if Hamas broke that agreement, and simply didn’t deliver the medicines to the hostages, indicating once again the great difficulties involved in any attempt to reach an agreement with terrorists.

What is perhaps most shameful about this is the lack of effort by the international community to ensure that the medicines did reach the hostages. World leaders are prepared to tell Israel what to do, but don’t seem to be prepared to put any significant pressure on Hamas.

This report of the discovery by the IDF: