Cruelty becoming enemy of peace in Gaza, UN torture expert warns after hostage videos emerge
- Alice Jill Edwards calls for immediate release of all hostages, reiterates that aiding and abetting hostage-taking is also a crime under international law
- Disturbing videos released this week by captors ‘should be proof enough’ of cruelty inflicted on hostages, she says; also calls for release of Palestinians held in Israeli jails
