The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, a marketing campaign group for family of these kidnapped, stated Albag’s household has not authorised publication of the video.
The armed wing of Hamas, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, launched a video on Saturday of an Israeli hostage held in Gaza since its October 2023 assault. In the undated, three-and-a-half-minute video recording that AFP has not been ready to confirm, 19-year-old soldier Liri Albag known as in Hebrew for the Israeli authorities to safe her launch.
While we hope for the discharge of Israeli captive Liri Albag, in addition to hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, allow us to not overlook she served in a surveillance and sniper unit on Gaza’s border, killing and maiming lots of of peaceable protesters in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/9ZbhiGaRQi
— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) January 4, 2025
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, a marketing campaign group for family of these kidnapped, stated Albag’s household has not authorised publication of the video. “We appeal to the prime minister, world leaders and all decision-makers: it’s time to take decisions as if it were your own children there,” the household stated in a press release.
Albag was 18 when she was captured by Palestinian militants on the Nahal Oz base on the Gaza border together with six different ladies conscripts, 5 of whom stay in captivity. Hamas and its ally Islamic Jihad have launched a quantity of movies of Israeli hostages of their custody throughout almost 15 months of preventing in Gaza.
The militants seized 251 hostages throughout the 2023 assault, of whom 96 stay in Gaza. The Israeli army says 34 of these are lifeless. Hamas stated late on Friday that oblique negotiations with Israel for a truce and hostage launch deal had been to resume in Qatar that very same night time. There has since been no replace.
Mediators Qatar, Egypt and the United States have been engaged in months of effort which have failed to finish the conflict. Weekly demonstrations organised by the hostages discussion board, the newest scheduled in Tel Aviv on Saturday, have stored up the stress on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a deal to free the hostages.
The prime minister’s critics in Israel have accused him of stalling on a deal. The discussion board stated the newest video was “firm and incontestable proof of the urgency of bringing the hostages home”.On Thursday, Netanyahu’s workplace stated he had authorised Israeli negotiators to be a part of the newest spherical of truce and hostage launch talks in Qatar.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by DNA employees and is printed from AFP)
