Hamas published a video of two Israeli hostages captured at the Israel Festival in October 2023 on Friday, in which the Palestinian Islamist group launched the attack with over 1,200 dead. One of the ostricians says he is held in the city of Gaza, where the Israeli army has launched a major offensive, writes Reuters. Also on Friday, Israelula bombed a tower block in the west of Gaza, and the images show how the building is on the ground.
Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Alon Ohel are two of the 48 people who are still caught by Hamas in Gaza, of whom 20 are believed to be alive, writes News.ro, citing Reuters.
The Palestinian militants led 251 hosts in the enclave after the attack on communities in southern Israel, October 2023, when they killed about 1,200 people, triggering the war. Since then, over 64,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to the local authorities, a large part of the enclave being in ruins, and its inhabitants were facing a humanitarian crisis.
The video was edited and presents Gilboa-Dalal, with an exhausted figure, speaking for about three and a half minutes. The video is dated August 28, and in a sequence the hostage appears in a car. He says he is held in the city of Gaza with other hostages and that he is afraid of being killed following the Israeli offensive on the city.
The 24-year-old Gilboa-Dalal seems to be on the rear seat of a driving car. As the car passes by buildings, it identifies one of them as belonging to the Red Cross.
At one point, Ohel is also seen, aged for 24 years.
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Hamas refused to allow the Red Cross to see the hostages.
Dictated speech
Reuters states that he could not determine when the video was recorded.
Gilboa-Dalal appeared in a video of Hamas and in February, being forced to watch the release of other hostages in a temporary armistice. The hostages who were filmed in similar videos and have been released since then said they were dictated what to say.
Human Rights Watch condemned Hamas and another militant group in Gaza for broadcasting videos with hostages, qualifying this as an inhuman treatment that is a war crime.
Israeli officials described videos as a psychological war.
On Friday, Netanyahu said it was “raw propaganda”.
Tens of thousands of Israelis organized weekly demonstrations to demand the cessation of war and the issuance of hostages. On Friday, hundreds of people gathered in a public market in Tel Aviv to mark 700 days since capturing the hostages.
After broadcasting the video, the leader of the Israeli opposition, Yair Lapid, urged Israeli negotiators to resume discussions for a hostage issuance agreement. The hostages released so far have been released from the diplomatic negotiations mediated by the United States and the Arab states, but the last round of discussions failed in July.
However, the far-right minister of national security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, said that Israel should respond by the full occupation of the gas.
The Israeli military leadership warned Netanyahu not to extend the war, according to Israeli officials. The families of the Israeli hostages and their supporters are afraid that the attack could endanger the captives.
Hamas said he would free some hostages in exchange for a temporary armistice, while Netanyahu insists on an “everything or nothing” agreement with Hamas, who will provide for the release of all hostages and teaching them.
Tower block, set to earth by the Israeli army
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the army last month to capture the largest urban center in the Gaza Strip, Gaza, attacking what the government calls the last Bastion of Hamas. A spokesman for the Israeli army said on Thursday that he is now controlling 40% of the city. Before the war, about one million people lived there. The army controls about 75% of the entire Gaza enclave.
On Friday, the Israeli army bombed a tall building in the west of Gaza, which he said was used by Hamas and that civilians had been warned in advance. The army did not provide any evidence that the militants used the building, notes Reuters.
The administration of the building issued a statement saying that it was used for the Palestinians relocated because of the war, denying that it would have been used for something other than civil purposes.
The images showed the moment when the building was hit, collapsing a few seconds after the impact and causing the thick smoke clouds that spread over the nearby tent camps, where the Palestinians were sheltered.
אחרי הודעת ודו ודוודו שצהשצה יחל לתקוף קומות בעזה בעזה: תיעוד תקיפת אל-מושתהא העיר עזה עזה pic.twitter.com/0ot7ypciuw
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In the entire strip of Gaza, 30 Palestinians were killed by the army on Friday, of which 20 in the city of Gaza, said the Ministry of Health of Gaza.
The army of intense launched on the city for weeks, advancing through the suburbs, and this week the forces were a few kilometers from the city center.
Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Friday that military operations will intensify until Hamas accepts the conditions of Israel for the end of the war: the issuing of hostages and disarmament. Otherwise, the group will be destroyed, he said.
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