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Hamas’ equipped helping released a video, connected Monday, showing an Israeli-German hostage alive, the 2nd specified footage of him shared by the militants this month.
The Israeli run radical Hostages and Missing Families Forum and the captive’s household identified him arsenic Alon Ohel. He was abducted by Palestinian militants during their October 7, 2023 onslaught connected Israel.
The household urged the media not to usage his photograph oregon excerpts from the video.
In the video Ohel, 24, dressed successful a achromatic t-shirt, appeals to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to unafraid the merchandise of each captives inactive held successful Gaza.
He is besides heard urging his household to proceed protesting against Netanyahu and his authorities successful bid to property for their release.
The clip besides shows a militant holding a gun, besides dressed successful black, tapping Ohel’s shoulder.
The footage, released by the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, shows Ohel speaking portion watching a tv surface displaying Netanyahu.
AFP was incapable to instantly verify the video oregon the day it was filmed.
“Our household is shaken and successful symptom pursuing the merchandise of Alon’s video by Hamas,” Ohel’s parents, Idit and Kobi Ohel, said successful a connection released by the forum.
“It’s evident that Alon is losing imaginativeness successful his close eye, and helium appears bladed and distressed,” they said, and called for him to get contiguous attraction from an an oculus specialist.
They said that the destiny of their lad and different captives was successful the hands of Netanyahu.
“On the eve of Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year), during these days of repentance, the destiny of young Jewish lives – Israeli citizens – present rests successful the hands of the premier curate and the cabinet,” their connection said.
“Do not interruption the bosom of the radical of Israel. The astir important nationalist connection close present is bringing Alon and each the hostages location to their families.”
Ohel was acceptable to commencement euphony studies aft returning from a travel to Asia successful the weeks earlier being abducted astatine the Supernova euphony festival during the Hamas attack.
He was captured erstwhile sheltering connected Route 232, the lone mode retired of the festival, with 3 different young men.
Hamas’s equipped helping had released a akin video of Ohel connected September 5, successful which helium appeared alongside different hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal.
Of the 251 hostages seized during the Hamas onslaught successful October 2023, 47 are inactive successful Gaza, including 25 the Israeli subject says are dead.
The onslaught itself resulted successful the deaths of 1,219 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based connected Israeli figures.
Israel’s retaliatory violative against Hamas has since killed astatine slightest 65,344 Palestinians successful Gaza, astir of them civilians, according to figures from the wellness ministry successful the Hamas-run territory that the United Nations considers reliable.
The station Hamas releases video of Israeli-German hostage appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.
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