A sign of life. Palestinian Islamic Jihad released video on Tuesday of a living Israeli hostage speaking in Hebrew in a short message.
The young man, identified by Israeli media as Sasha Trupanov, 28, is an Israeli-Russian citizen. He was captured on October 7 in Kibbutz Nir Oz and then taken to the Gaza Strip.
In the extract, the young man addresses Israelis as well as “all the demonstrators”, indicates the Jerusalem Post. “In the coming days, you will hear the truth about what happened to me and other prisoners in Gaza. » “Wait patiently,” reads a message following the hostage’s statement.
The mother, grandmother and girlfriend of Sacha Trupanov, who were kidnapped the same day, were released during the truce at the end of November between Hamas and Israel, which allowed the release of 105 hostages. His father Vitaly Trupanov, 50, was killed in the attack. Hamas and Islamic Jihad have already released hostage videos in the past.
Dozens of hostages considered dead
This video “is further proof that the Israeli government must give a clear mandate to the negotiating team, which can reach an agreement for the return of all the hostages,” says the Hostage Families Forum, the main Israeli association. relatives of hostages held in the Gaza Strip since October 7.
That day, Hamas commandos carried out an unprecedented attack in southern Israel, which resulted in the deaths of more than 1,170 people, the majority civilians killed that day, according to a report by the AFP established from official Israeli data.
They also kidnapped 252 people. Among them, according to Israel, 121 are still detained in the Gaza Strip, including 37 considered dead by the Israeli army.
The vast military operation carried out in retaliation by Israel in the Gaza Strip left more than 36,000 dead, mostly civilians, according to the Health Ministry of the Hamas-led Gaza government.