Hungary FM In Talks On Israeli-Hungarian Hostage Held by Hamas

Foreign Minister Szijjarto confirmed reports that Hamas had killed another Israeli-Hungarian national.

A szlovák külügy- és Európa-ügyi miniszter Budapesten Fotó: Balogh Zoltán

„On New Year’s Day, I had a telephone conversation with my friend Ron Dermer, minister of strategic affairs of the Israeli government”, Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto began his post on social media. 

While we reviewed the situation in the Middle East, I reaffirmed the Hungarian position: we stand by the fact that Israel has the right to defend itself, and it is in the interest of the entire international community that there should never again be a terrorist attack anywhere in the world like the one that has hit Israel, he stressed.

FM Szijjarto underlined that they also discussed the situation of hostages in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian war.

Regrettably, Ron Dermer confirmed the sad news relayed by the media that the authorities had found the body of an Israeli-Hungarian hostage, a dual national. At the same time, we have mutually reaffirmed our commitment to freeing another hostage of dual – and therefore partly Hungarian – nationality, who is still being held by Hamas,

– FM Szijjarto wrote on his social media.

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto (Photo: MTI/Zoltan Balogh)