"I spoke today with the head of the Red Cross delegation in our region, Julian Larison, and requested his immediate involvement in providing food and medical care to our hostages.

I told him clearly: Hamas’s starvation lie is being spread around the world, but the reality is that systematic starvation is being carried out against our hostages—men and women who are being subjected to severe and brutal physical and mental abuse. 

The world cannot remain indifferent to the shocking images that are reminiscent of Nazi crimes.