Hamas released a new hostage video Monday, showing three kidnapped Israeli women pleading with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to help secure their freedom.
The video — dismissed by Netanyahu as “brutal” propaganda — shows the trio shouting at him over their continued captivity among the more than 200 taken during the October 7 terrorist massacre.
“Hello, Bibi Netanyahu,” the woman in the center said in Hebrew, according to a translation from the Jerusalem Post, which identified them as Yelena Tropanov, Danielle Aloni and Rimon Kirscht.
“We have been in Hamas custody for 23 days,” he said.
“We know that there should be a ceasefire. You should have let us all go. You made a commitment to release us all,” he shouted.
The woman then accused Netanyahu of “political and national neglect” and “nonsense” on October 7, when Hamas carried out a surprise attack that killed more than 1,400 people in Israel.
“There are no soldiers there. No one came. No one is listening to us,” the hostage claimed. “We are innocent people. Citizens who pay taxes to the state of Israel. You want to kill us all. You want to kill us all using the IDF.
Hamas released a video of three Israeli hostages berating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his response to the terrorist attack.Xinhua/Shutterstock Netanyahu condemned the video as “brutal psychological manipulation by Hamas and ISIS.”X/@ShehabAgency
“It is not enough that Israelis are killed,” he continued. “Let’s go. Let’s go now… Let’s go back to our families now!”
Netanyahu condemned the video as “brutal psychological propaganda by Hamas-ISIS.”
“We embrace the families and do everything to return all the captives and disappeared to their families,” he said.
The woman accused Netanyahu of “political and national neglect” and “nonsense” during the terrorist attack. Twitter/@ShehabAgency
Tropanov was abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his mother and his son and his girlfriend, according to Israeli channels. Her husband was among those killed on Oct. 7.
Aloni was also taken from Nir Oz along with his daughter, sister, brother-in-law and twin nephews. Kirsht was kidnapped with her husband from Kibbutz Nirim.
Netanyahu addressed them directly in another message on Monday, writing: “To Yelena Trupanob, Daniel Aloni and Rimon Kirsht, who were kidnapped by Hamas, who committed war crimes. i hug you Our hearts are with you and the other captives.
Danielle Aloni is identified as one of the hostages in the video.Facebook/Bring Them Home Now The scene of a terrorist attack by Hamas on Kibbutz Nir Oz — where two of the hostages in the propaganda video were kidnapped.REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
“We are doing everything to bring home all the captives and missing.”
The new video contrasts with previous hostage testimonies released by Hamas before the war, in which Israeli-French citizen Mia Schem was filmed receiving medical treatment for an injured arm.
Unlike the woman on Monday, who was likely forced to shout at Netanyahu by Hamas, Schem spoke only briefly about the care he received in Gaza as he also pleaded for his safe return.
A blood-stained bed in a child’s bedroom in a house in Nir Oz after the attack.REUTERS Israeli woman Ofri Bibas Levi shows a photo of her brother Jordan kidnapped from Nir Oz by Hamas.Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images
The Israeli government slammed the video as propaganda as well, claiming Hamas was trying to win hearts on the world stage by showing its treatment of hostages following international condemnation of the kidnapping.
So far, Hamas has only released four hostages, an American mother and daughter and two elderly Israeli women.
Israel estimates that there are approximately 239 people currently being held by the terrorist group.
Hamas has claimed that more than 50 hostages have been killed by Israeli airstrikes on Gaza in the past three weeks, but has yet to provide any evidence of deaths.
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