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 photographs of her lifeless physique. Hamas stated she had been killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza on Thursday.
The Israeli navy 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 publish on Kibbutz Nahal Oz when Hamas attacked.
“Our hearts are with the Marciano household,” Israeli navy officers stated in a press release, noting {that a} navy consultant had visited the household and knowledgeable them of the video’s launch. Army officers pledged to help the Marcianos and different hostages’ households, promising that they’re “utilizing all means, each intelligence and operational, to carry the hostages residence.”
The video exhibits 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 navy to cease focusing on the world, saying the explosions are shut by, continuous and will hurt the hostages. The video concludes with nonetheless photographs of Ms. Marciano’s lifeless physique stained with blood and splayed on a white sheet.
Within the weeks for the reason that struggle started, a handful of photographs and movies of hostages have emerged. Final week, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, one other extremist group in Gaza, launched movies of two hostages — Hanna Katzir, 77, and Yagil Yaakov, 13 — asking Israeli officers to cease bombing Gaza. The Occasions has not verified the movies.
On Monday, a video purporting to be of an Israeli-Russian educational, Elizabeth Tsurkov, who was kidnapped in Iraq in March, was printed by Iraqi tv and on social media. Within the video — which The Occasions 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.
