Soussana says that it made more difference “than I ever imagined that would” to speak out about what happened to her in captivity.

“Suits in DC would not be able to pay their mortgage if they criticize Qatar,” Michael Pregent, a former intelligence officer, said.

A spokesman for the United Nations secretary-general said the claim was due to poor “brand management.”

“Any discussion of humanitarian suffering that does not begin with the release of the hostages is not an honest discussion.”

“The secretary-general has spoken out repeatedly at the horrors we have seen in this conflict,” said a spokesman for the UN secretary-general.

She “would not have to be here today if the international community and this council had acted against Hamas instead of looking away and remaining silent,” Israeli envoy Danny Danon said.

“We need to put our hand on the wheel, and it’s our time now and we cannot wait for anyone else to come and build our home again.”

“We could not support an unconditional ceasefire that failed to release the hostages,” said deputy US ambassador Robert Wood.

Parents of hostages said after meeting with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office that the president and president-elect can and must work together to force a deal.

The Palestinian aid agency has been exposed “as a terrorist front camouflaged as a humanitarian agency,” Ambassador Danny Danon told a U.N. Security Council meeting.