Hamas publishes video of unidentified tattooed hostage

The spokesperson for Hamas's armed wing, Abu Obeida, wrote in a statement on Saturday evening that the IDF struck a place where hostages were held.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF DECEMBER 14, 2024 17:56 Updated: DECEMBER 14, 2024 18:13

A message at the end of a Hamas video, stating "[Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu and [Chief of Staff Herzi] Halevi seek to get rid of their prisoners in Gaza by all means. (photo credit: Screenshot/Hamas Telegram)

Hamas published a video of the body of at least one unidentifiable hostage seen with tattoos in a video to the terror group's Telegram channel on Saturday evening. 

The spokesperson for Hamas's armed wing, Abu Obeida, wrote in a statement on Saturday evening that the IDF struck a place where hostages were held.

Abu Obeida said that Hamas intelligence "confirms that the enemy deliberately bombed the place with the aim of killing the prisoners and their guards."

The spokesperson also said that Hamas made "several attempts" to recover the hostages and succeeded in recovering one of them, but their fate is unknown.

People ride their bicycles on Yom Kippur, in front of a wall featuring hostage posters, in Jerusalem, October 12, 2024 (credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90)

Abu Obeida said Hamas holds Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responsible for the incident and for hostage lives.

Hamas publishes two videos about hostages, Netanyahu 

Shortly after, Hamas published a second video, captioned, "Netanyahu's biggest dream is for them to all die."

The video begins with a clip of the prime minister giving a speech saying, "We must return them [the hostages] all, the living and the dead as one."

The video then proceeds to show a compilation of Israeli hostages killed in Gaza or signs-of-life videos previously published by the terror group.

After that, the video switches to a CGI scene of IDF soldiers carrying coffins in a graveyard with pictures of Israeli hostages on the tombstones. A CGI Netanyahu is then seen digging more graves.

The video ends with Netanyahu saying, "How many are left, 99 or 100?" referring to a recent blunder the prime minister made when he didn't recall the number of hostages still in Hamas captivity.

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