Russia’s Human Rights Commissioner is appealing again to senior UN and other officials to act to secure the release of Russian captives held in the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera reports.

Tatyana Moskalkova said on the Telegram messaging app that she had launched the appeal after a meeting in Moscow with relatives of those still being held.

“In one conversation, one of the mothers told me details of the situation of those being held,” she wrote.

There are reportedly eight captives with Russian passports, including three who were released.

Moskalkova said she had appealed to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross Mirjana Spoljaric, and other officials.