The undated 37-second video of Noa Argamani, 26, Yossi Sharabi, 53, and Itai Svirsky, 38, released on Sunday night showed them speaking presumably under duress, pleading with Israel’s government to end the war and get them home.

The clip ended with a Hamas caption that on Monday, “we will inform you of their fate”. Israel has blasted such videos as psychological warfare and insists it will not be deflected from its goals in Gaza, after Hamas launched raids into southern Israel on October 7 that claimed 1,200 lives.

Among the targets was a music festival from which Ms Argamani and her boyfriend were seized. An early clip released by Hamas showed her pleading for her life as she was taken away on the back of a motorbike.

  • nichtsowichtig@feddit.deEnglish
    33·
    10 months ago

    From this source:

    Many of the Israeli hostages, according to interviews with family members, returned “malnourished, infested with lice, ill, injured and deeply traumatized,” the Times also reported.

    Also important to note, it is likely that some hostages are treated under “acceptable” conditions for propaganda purposes. Also, many hostages’ family members were murdered on october 7. So that unto itself very much contradicts with the absurd claim that they were “treated well”.

      • nichtsowichtig@feddit.deEnglish
        23·
        10 months ago

        A few people commit crimes

        They murdered 1200 people.

        and most kids were killed by israeli tanks

        disinformation. debunked here and here.

        • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          33·
          10 months ago

          Only 36 out of the 1139 deaths (not 1200) were children.

          Israeli officials say 1,139 people were killed in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks in southern Israel, among them 695 Israeli civilians including 36 children.

          And a massive amount of them were burnt to a crisp in the Kibbutzes where the IDF also counted 250 Hamas fighters that the IDF initially counted as “israelis burnt beyond recognition”.

          So you think those Hamas fighters spontaneously combusted?

          Furthermore plenty of witness testimonies from israelis that were that say that the IDF tanks shot children in kubbutzes.