The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has failed in its obligations to help the Israelis taken hostage on Oct. 7 during Hamas' horrific terror attack. No visits have been undertaken to check on the well-being of the hostages or even get proof of life. Families who have come to the ICRC pleading to have medicines delivered to hostages with dire medical needs have been turned away.

In recent days, a complicated deal has emerged to get medicines to the hostages. While the ICRC is seemingly involved, it is still not living up to its responsibilities to visit the hostages and care for them, according to information currently available about the deal. It also comes over 100 days into the hostages' horrific ordeal.

At the same time, the ICRC, which is supposed to act in a neutral way, has been doing anything but --leveling harsh criticism at Israel but treating Hamas with leniency, even though Hamas has committed grave breaches of international humanitarian law [IHL] by, among other things, taking hundreds of hostages, engaging in widespread sexual violence, and targeting civilian communities in a large-scale killing spree that left over 1,200 dead. In Gaza, the ICRC has ignored years of Hamas violations of IHL by placing itself within hospitals and misusing ambulances.