Israel Hamas releases further hostage video
According to Israeli media reports, the Islamist Hamas has released another video of a hostage kidnapped from Israel. The young female soldier (19) was abducted from her deployment site in Nahal Oz on the border fence with the Gaza Strip during the unprecedented Hamas massacre in Israel on October 7, 2023. She was one of the military observer troops who had unsuccessfully warned superiors of suspicious activities in the Gaza Strip before the Hamas attack.
04.01.2025, 16:19
SDA
The hostage's family initially did not give permission to show the three-and-a-half-minute video or reproduce its content. Only a still image was released, which reads in Arabic: "I have been a prisoner in Gaza for more than 450 days." This would mean that the recording was made recently. The circumstances under which the video was made are unknown. The woman is wearing dark clothing and the background of the video is completely black.
Hamas has already repeatedly released videos of hostages, which Israel denounces as psychological warfare. Relatives and friends of the hostages as well as demonstrators have accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of torpedoing a ceasefire with Hamas and thus the release of the hostages with ever new demands.
Netanyahu denies this. However, he has not changed his policy even after earlier hostage videos. Negotiations in Qatar on a ceasefire are reportedly making slow progress.
