Hamas released this Saturday a video of the deceased hostage Elad Katzir, whose body Israel recovered in April, and threatened to worsen the treatment of the 120 still captives in Link after the massacre of Nuseiratin which 274 Palestinians died and the Army rescued four of those kidnapped alive.
“We do not know whether this good treatment of prisoners will continue after the Nuseirat massacre or not!?” wrote the Islamic organization as the header of the video, which shows Katzir eating with others during his captivity.
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The family of the deceased asked the media not to publish the video of the Hamasin which his corpse also appears, as well as any other image of him.
“I continue in Link why Netanyahu he forgot me” or “this is not my place” were some of the phrases in English spoken by Katzir during the video, in which he appears sharing a meal with several people.
“You left me here in captivity, we die here every day, and every day that the war continues more soldiers die“, the hostage also said in Hebrew, following the usual line of these videos of Hamaswith the aim of conditioning Israeli public opinion.
In April the Army recovered the body of Elad Katzir in Jan YunisSouth of Linkand according to a military statement issued then “He was murdered in captivity by the terrorist organization Islamic Jihad”.
Along with the testimony of the family of Katzirthe Forum of Families of hostages and missing people claimed “the approval of the agreement that brings them home to their families and loved ones.”
The group regularly pressures the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahuto prioritize the agreement that guarantees the safe return of the hostages in the face of the military offensive.
“Each day that they remain captivity “puts their lives at great risk.”denounced the group.
Of the 251 kidnapped on October 7, 116 captives remain in the enclave, at least 40 of them dead according to Israel – more than 70 according to Hamas -; although there have been four other hostages for years, two of them dead.
Since the war began, Israel It is Hamas they only managed to reach a one-week truce agreement at the end of November, which allowed free 105 hostages in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners.
Additionally, four hostages were released by Hamas in October; seven rescued by the Army – two of them in February, in a successful operation in Rafa-; while the bodies of 20 hostages were recovered, three of whom were killed by mistake Israeli troops.
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