The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas released a propaganda video on Saturday evening after ex-hostage Sharon Cunio earlier this week released a video in Arabic urging her husband David’s captors to send a video showing that he was still envy.
The Hamas video shows no signs of life from David Cunio, nor any information on his current state of health.
The terrorist group instead opted for an old video showing Sharon, David and one of their children in Gaza at the start of the war, along with text mocking its request.
Israel believes that the videos of Hamas hostages are part of deplorable psychological warfare.
An estimated 96 of the 251 hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 are still in Gaza, including the bodies of 34 hostages whose deaths were confirmed by the military. 105 civilians were released during a week-long truce that took place at the end of November 2023, and four hostages were released before this pause in fighting. Eight hostages, including a female soldier, were rescued alive by Israeli forces, and the bodies of 38 hostages were also recovered, three of whom were mistakenly killed by the army in a tragic incident in December.
Hamas has also held the bodies of IDF soldiers Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin since 2014, as well as two Israeli civilians, Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, both of whom are believed to be alive after entering the Gaza Strip from on their own in 2014 and 2015 respectively.
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