A resolution calling for the release of hostages kidnapped by Hamas during its massacre in Israel on 7 October 2023 was among several emergency motions passed at the Valencia Congress of the European People’s Party (EPP), the largest political group in the European Parliament.
The resolution on ‘‘the urgent need to release all hostages held by Hamas’’ was one of several emergency motions on the second day of the congress, and was tabled by Sweden’s Christian Democrats and Austrian People’s Party delegations.
The resolution condemned, “in the strongest possible terms, the despicable [7 October 2023] terrorist attacks committed by the terrorist group Hamas against Israel”, calling for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages taken by the terrorist group Hamas and for the bodies of deceased hostages to be returned.
