Hamas on Monday launched a video of a 19-year-old Israeli soldier who was captured within the Oct. 7 assaults on Israel that included clips of her talking early within the battle after which pictures of her lifeless physique. Hamas mentioned she had been killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza on Thursday.
The Israeli army launched a press release showing to substantiate the authenticity of the video, which it condemned as “psychological terrorism.”
The soldier, Noa Marciano, served in an intelligence unit and was stationed at a lookout put up on Kibbutz Nahal Oz when Hamas attacked.
“Our hearts are with the Marciano family,” Israeli army officers mentioned in a press release, noting {that a} army consultant had visited the household and knowledgeable them of the video’s launch. Navy officers pledged to assist the Marcianos and different hostages’ households, promising that they’re “using all means, both intelligence and operational, to bring the hostages home.”
The video reveals Ms. Marciano talking right into a digicam and offering figuring out details about herself and her household. She says that she is being held in Gaza and has been there for about 4 days with different hostages, and she or he pleads with the Israeli army to cease focusing on the world, saying the explosions are shut by, continuous and will hurt the hostages. The video concludes with nonetheless pictures of Ms. Marciano’s lifeless physique stained with blood and splayed on a white sheet.
Within the weeks because the struggle started, a handful of pictures and movies of hostages have emerged. Final week, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, one other extremist group in Gaza, launched videos of two hostages — Hanna Katzir, 77, and Yagil Yaakov, 13 — asking Israeli officers to cease bombing Gaza. The Instances has not verified the movies.
On Monday, a video purporting to be of an Israeli-Russian academic, Elizabeth Tsurkov, who was kidnapped in Iraq in March, was printed by Iraqi tv and on social media. Within the video — which The Instances has not verified — she speaks in Hebrew, urging the households of the Oct. 7 hostages to do all they will to cease the struggle in Gaza. It could be, if verified, the primary picture of Ms. Tsurkov since her seize.
