Jake Tapper Stunned In Harrowing Interview to Learn The Red Cross Told Parents of Israeli Hostage to Care Instead About Gazans

CNN anchor Jake Tapper interviewed the brother of an Israeli woman still being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza and was shocked to learn during the Monday interview that the Red Cross told the hostage’s parents as they pleaded for medicine for their daughter that they should instead care about the people of Gaza.

“Three months after the October 7th terrorist attack by Hamas. Families and loved ones of hostages are still anxiously waiting for the release,” Tapper began the interview, adding:

Israel believes that 107 hostages are still alive and still being held by Hamas in Gaza. Let’s bring in Dor Steinbrecher. Hamas kidnapped his 30-year-old sister Doron Steinbrecher from kibbutz Kfar Aza. Thank you so much for being here. I can’t imagine what it’s been like. Um, you learned that your sister was kidnapped through a frightening voicemail. She left saying, uh, they got hold of me. They caught me. Uh, what went through your mind?

Steinbrecher replied by recounting that day’s events and discussing the last phone calls his sister made as she was taken hostage by Palestinian gunmen.

“She had a phone call with my mom,” Steinbrecher continued, referring to his kidnapped sister, adding:

Um, around 10 a.m., she called my mom. She was crying on the phone. Uh, telling. She’s, uh, lying under a bed in the safe room, um, after she locked the door and put, uh, couch and, uh, the refrigerator behind the door. Uh, she thought it would be enough. It wasn’t. They went inside her apartment and took her, and that was the voice message she sent to her friends. Few seconds when she is telling that she has been kidnapped. And you can hear the Arabic.

“Uh oh. You could hear Arabic in the background?” Tapper interjected.

“Yes, in the background and sound of shooting,” Steinbrecher replied.

“Have you have you have you have any evidence that she’s still alive? Have any other photographs or other hostages who have been freed? Who saw her?” Tapper asked.

“No. Unfortunately not. Um, all the hostages who came back? No one’s going saw her in Gaza and we didn’t have any sign of life for us,” Steinbrecher replied.

“Well, that doesn’t mean she’s not alive. It just. It just. Yeah. They’re all separated. Your sister takes medication daily. And I know your parents reached out to the Red Cross. Yeah, um, to help ensure that she’s able to get that medication. What did the Red Cross have to say?” Tapper followed up.

“Uh, first of all, my sister is, should take a medicine on a daily basis. And probably she hasn’t taken it from, uh, October 7th, like, all of the hostages who need medicine and, uh, didn’t, uh, got it. And my mom had, uh, few meetings with the Red Cross, and she told them my sister needed to get her medicine. Yeah. And they told us that, uh, we should, uh, care more about the, uh, uh, people on the other side,” Steinbrecher answered.

“That you should care more about what’s happening to the people in Gaza?” Tapper followed up.

“Yeah. And less about, uh, our family, our beloved one who didn’t got her medicine,” Steinbrecher answered.

“Wait a second. So your sister takes medication every day. She was taken hostage. She’s a civilian. She was taken hostage by Hamas three months and a few days ago or three get three months and one day ago. And your parents told this to the Red cross and hope that they would be able to get the medication to to her wherever she is. And their response was. You should be worried more about the people of Gaza. That’s what the Red Cross said to your parents?” Tapper asked.

“Yes,” Steinbrecher replied.

“That’s shocking,” said Tapper.

“Yeah. Very shocking,” Steinbrecher agreed.

“Um. You must be worried about your sister, Doron. I mean, I know there’s a lot of fear about what’s happening to all the young women. Yeah. Um, teenagers, girls in their 20s. Darren is 30,” Tapper followed up.

Steinbrecher agreed, saying he had read all the testimonies about sexual violence from October 7th, concluding, “It’s very scary.”

Tapper concluded by asking if Steinbrecher had a message to Americans who are tearing the hostage posters put up around the U.S.

“I want them to know not just about my sister, about each one of the hostages in Gaza. They’re just citizens. Most of them pulled out of the beds on Saturday morning. And taken to Gaza. With no. With no reason I can think about it. I want them to try to imagine that all of the hostages in Gaza, the babies, the women, the grandfathers. It’s their family members. Their family loved ones which need their help. And then, uh, to, uh, think about why they did with the hostages posters,” Steinbrecher concluded.

Watch the full clip above.