The victim’s family asked the media not to disseminate the recording of the terrorist movement.
SIPA / © Ashraf Amra Apaimages
A method of current intimidation of Hamas. This Saturday, May 4, the Ezzedine al-Qassam brigades, an armed branch of the terrorist organization, broadcast a recording in which an elongated man appears, his head and the left arm covered with bandages with brown tasks. The victim speaks Hebrew with a Russian accent. The man presents himself as “prisoner number 24” and suggests that his injuries were caused by an Israeli bombardment.
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-AFP, like most Israeli media, has identified the hostage as Maxim Herkin. This man will be 37 years old at the end of May. In the video, in which he speaks under constraint, the individual refers to the fact that Israel will soon celebrate the anniversary of his creation. His family expressly asked the media not to disseminate Hamas recording.
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Father of a girl
Maxim Herkin had emigrated to Israel with his mother. It was abducted on October 7, 2023 at La Rave-Party Nova, theater of the largest massacre committed that day by Hamas Islamists. Father of a little girl, he had written to his mother just before his abduction: ” Everything is fine. I come home “. Of the 251 people kidnapped on October 7, 58 are still retained in Gazaincluding 34 declared dead by the Israeli army.
The broadcast of hostage videos from Hamas has become a weapon of war. In these, the victims often evoke the fact that Israel puts their lives in danger by continuing its daily bombardments on Gaza. This Saturday, May evening, in the evening, several thousand Israelis again gathered in Tel Aviv to claim the release of the hostages. The government of Benyamin Netanyahu says that the best way to achieve this goal is military pressure.
