The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas stated Saturday that one other of the hostages taken throughout its Oct. 7 assault on Israel had died.
Hamas launched a video saying that Nadav Popplewell, who was taken hostage from the Kibbutz Nirim group in southern Israel, died after being wounded in an Israeli strike in Gaza.
The Israeli army didn’t provide instant touch upon the most recent video. He has referred to earlier movies of hostages launched by Hamas as psychological terror. He has additionally denied a few of Hamas’s earlier accusations that the hostages have been killed by Israeli fireplace.
Earlier on Saturday, Hamas launched an undated video of the 51-year-old captive in entrance of a white wall, with a bruise on his proper eye and saying his title.
Hours later, within the second video, it stated Popplewell died from accidents sustained a month in the past in an Israeli airstrike.
Hamas stated Popplewell, who was additionally a British citizen, was being held with a girl hostage when the place the place they have been being held was hit by an Israeli missile.
“He died as a result of he didn’t obtain intensive medical care in medical services because of the enemy’s destruction of hospitals in Gaza,” Hamas armed wing spokesman Abu Ubaida stated in a press release.
Of the 252 individuals kidnapped on October 7, 128 stay in Gaza, in response to Israeli counts. Not less than 36 of them have been declared lifeless by an Israeli forensic committee.
Israel says securing the discharge of the hostages is the purpose of its offensive in Gaza, along with eliminating Hamas, which has dominated the enclave since 2007.
Popplewell, in response to the hostage help group, was captured together with his mom at their house in Kibbutz Nirim. His brother died throughout the assault. His mom was freed throughout a short truce in November.
