The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Wednesday launched a video displaying an Israeli-American hostage in its custody, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was captured in the course of the Oct. 7 assault.
The propaganda video exhibits the 23-year-old along with his left arm lacking a number of centimeters above his hand, the Reuters information company reported.
He was wounded in the course of the Hamas assault on the Nova music pageant and an earlier video recorded on the day of the assault confirmed him severely injured.
Within the new edited video, launched at present and which doesn’t point out any date, Hersh Goldberg-Polin will be heard criticizing Benjamin Netanyahu’s authorities for “neglecting” the hostages.
In response to the Hamas video, Polin’s mother and father issued a video message, stating that they had been relieved to see him alive after “virtually 200 days” in captivity, and referred to as on world leaders to behave and attain a settlement settlement. launch of hostages.
“Seeing a video of him is overwhelming and we’re relieved to see him alive. “We’re additionally involved about his well being and well-being, in addition to the opposite hostages,” his father mentioned.
“We’re right here at present with an attraction to all world leaders who’ve been negotiating so far, together with Qatar, Egypt, america, Hamas and Israel. Be courageous, lean in, seize this second, attain an settlement to free all our family members and finish the struggling on this area,” he added.
His mom, Rachel Goldberg-Polin, who has been actively campaigning for her son’s launch, instructed Polin, within the video message, to “keep sturdy and survive.”
Some 250 Israelis and foreigners had been taken hostage by the gunmen, who killed about 1,200 folks, in line with Israeli counts, within the deadliest assault in Israel’s historical past. As many as 133 Israeli hostages stay in Hamas captivity after greater than 100 had been freed final 12 months.
Israel’s counterattack towards Hamas in Gaza has up to now killed greater than 34,000 Palestinians.
Because the warfare continues, world leaders have been negotiating to achieve a ceasefire settlement between Israel and Hamas.
