The Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Gaza-based Islamic Jihad movement, on Tuesday released a video of two Israeli hostages pleading for their release. The two men identified as Gadi Moses and Elad Katzir, appeared in a short video asking for increased efforts so they could reunite with their families.
“We are dying every moment. We are in an unbearable situation,” said Moses, looking at the camera against a plain background, in a video released on Telegram. The two men were both unshaven and appeared to have lost weight.
Moses, 79, was captured from a kibbutz on Oct. 7 when the militant group carried out its rampage in southern Israel. Katzir, 47, was also taken from a kibbutz along with his mother, who was later released. His father was killed, according to media reports.
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This video comes a day after Hamas released a short video showing three other elderly Israeli hostages whom the Islamist group seized during its rampage, when it took around 240 people hostage. Israel denounced it as a “criminal, terrorist video.”
Israel and Hamas agreed to a week-long ceasefire at the end of November, mediated by Qatar and Egypt, that included the release of more than 100 of the hostages from Gaza in exchange for 240 Palestinian women and teenagers from Israeli jails. Some of the hostages who remained in Gaza have been declared dead in absentia by Israeli authorities.
(With agency inputs)
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