At UN, ex-hostage slams inaction on Hamas captives

(JNS) — At a press conference on Wednesday outside the United Nations National Security Council in New York, a former hostage of Hamas in Gaza delivered a scathing indictment of the international body’s failure to intervene on her behalf.

“Not a single humanitarian agency saw me or treated me,” said Mia Shem. “Where was the Red Cross? Where was the U.N. demanding that they have access to us?”

Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon, also spoke at the press conference, describing the U.N.’s “complete moral failure” as “unforgivable.” While Shem was “locked in a cage alongside other women, none of...