Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday evening asked the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer to intervene to bring back the Israeli soldiers missing in Gaza.
The website of Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported that Netanyahu’s request came during his meeting with Maurer in Jerusalem adding that he asked the ICRC president to help his government obtain some information about the soldiers.
For his part Maurer said that the ICRC has been in the region for a long time and has always aimed to find effective ways to solve the prevailing challenges in the region.
During the 2014 aggression on Gaza Hamas managed to capture 4 Israelis including two soldiers. The Movement said it will not disclose any information about them until Israel releases all the Palestinians who were re-arrested after their release in the 2011 Wafa al-Ahrar prisoner swap deal.
On Tuesday Maurer met with the Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah as well as the leader of Hamas in Gaza Yahya al-Sinwar as part of his tour in the occupied Palestinian territories to learn about the “humanitarian situation” there.
