The Ezzedine Al-Qassam brigades, an army branch of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, published this Saturday afternoon a video showing what seems to be an injured Israeli hostage, detained in the Gaza Strip.
“Prisoner number 24”
In this document of more than four minutes, of which AFP was not able to immediately confirm authenticity, appears an elongated man, the skull and the left arm covered with bandages with brown tasks.
Speaking Hebrew, the man presents himself as “prisoner number 24” and suggests that he was injured in an Israeli bombardment. He also refers to the fact that Israel will soon celebrate the birthday of his independence, suggesting that the video was shot shortly before May 1, when the Hebrew State celebrated according to the Jewish calendar the 77th anniversary of its creation, May 15, 1948.
Of the 251 people kidnapped during the attack on October 7, 2023 of the commandos of Hamas infiltrated in southern Israel, 58 are still retained in Gaza, 34 of which were declared dead by the Israeli army. Hamas also retains the body of an Israeli soldier killed in a previous war in Gaza in 2014.
