A video was published this Saturday by the Islamist terrorist group Hamas, showing a 19-year-old Israeli hostage held in Gaza, kidnapped last October 7 from a military base in Nahal Oz in Israel.
Reliable news? The armed wing of Hamas published on Saturday a new video of one of the hostages kidnapped on October 7, 2023, during the attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement carried out in Israel from the Gaza Strip.
The video, approximately 3 minutes and 30 seconds long, whose date of recording cannot be verified, shows a young woman speaking in Hebrew and calling on the Israeli government to act to secure her release.
Abducted during her military service
The family of the hostage, Liri Elbag, a 19-year-old Israeli woman, did not authorize the publication of the video, said the Families Forum, the main association of relatives of hostages held in the Gaza Strip. Liri Elbag was kidnapped while doing her military service at the Nahal Oz base in southern Israel.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad, another Palestinian armed movement that participated in the October 7 attack that sparked the war in Gaza, have released hostage videos in the past.
The broadcast of the images on Saturday comes as Hamas announced on Friday the resumption of indirect negotiations with Israel in Doha for a ceasefire in Gaza. Israel has not confirmed this resumption.
Since the start of the war, only one one-week truce has been observed, in November 2023, during which 105 hostages were released as well as 240 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
During the October 7 attack which resulted in the death of more than 1,200 people on the Israeli side – mostly civilians – according to a count based on official figures, 251 people were kidnapped. A total of 96 hostages remain in Gaza, 34 of whom were declared dead by the army.
