“The obligation to return the fallen is an ancient human conscience,” Danny Danon, the Israeli envoy to the global body, told the U.N. Security Council
Hamas’s practice of holding bodies of hostages whom it killed is the “lowest form of terrorist, psychological warfare,” Ruby Chen, the father of Israeli-American hostage Itay Chen, 19 at the time he was kidnapped, told the U.N. Security Council.
The Thursday session, called at Washington’s request, focused on Resolution 2474, which addresses the return of the bodies of missing people held by hostile parties during armed conflict. It was the first such discussion since Oct. 7.
“I humbly ask the Security Council members, what kind of human being holds people for a decade and uses them as negotiation chips?” Chen told the council.