In the last image that Ofri Bibas Levy saw of her brother on social media, he is clutching a bleeding head wound while being restrained in a headlock and dragged away by strangers.
Yarden Bibas, 34, and his wife and two young sons are among around 200 hostages seized by Hamas gunmen on October 7 during their deadly cross-border rampage in southern Israel.
More than a month since they were taken from their home in Nir Oz, Bibas Levy is in Geneva, Switzerland, alongside other families to meet senior officials of the WHO and the International Red Cross to push for their release, or at least for medical access, she told Reuters.
“This is the first thing I want to shout and say that everybody has to condemn it and do whatever they can to bring them back as soon as possible. Because every day there is it’s dangerous for them,” she said, wearing a T-shirt with a picture of the family with ‘KIDNAPPED’ in red letters.
“And also a cry for the health organisations saying somebody has to go and find out what’s their condition,” she said.