Avera Mengistu

Where is the Red Cross? Why is there no outrage over a genuine war crime in the UN?

The protesters chose Hadarim Prison on Monday so that their rally could coincide with the weekly visit by the relatives of Palestinian security prisoners held in the facility.

Organizers said the demonstration will be the first in a series of protest moves that will focus on the humanitarian side of the story, with the goal of pressuring Hamas into releasing Mengistu.

"There is contradictory and partial information on whether he's alive," source says of Avera Mengistu.

Israel and Hamas not communicating via a third party for Ethiopian-Israeli's release, official says.

None of us can help but sympathize with the Mengistu family as they beseech the government to “do everything” to bring their son Avraham back from the clutches of the Hamas terrorists holding him.

Missing youth's relative claims that "nobody in the security forces shared information with the family on this incident."

The organs of the security establishment – be it the Shin Bet, censor, Mossad , IDF, defense minister or prime minister – have repeated time and again the same mistake.

PM says he appointed a representative to coordinate efforts on his behalf on this matter, and to be in contact with the families.

Ashkelon Mayor Shimoni visits Mengistu family, says the municipality has been accompanying them since the first moment that he went missing.