The Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas published on Wednesday a propaganda video of the hostage Omri lookwho regrets celebrating his second birthday as kidnapped in the Gaza Strip and warns that Israeli military pressure, far from rescuing the captives, is finishing them. “Do not believe (Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin) Netanyahu. Military pressure is killing us. Only an agreement can bring us back home, “they look in sitting in a bed in front of a birthday cake who says he has prepared for his 47th birthday.
“It is the second birthday that happened here, but this is just another day in captivity. I miss my children and my wife,” he adds. In the video, which starts with images of a underground tunnel Until they reach the room where the captive is, they look as they ask the Israelis to organize a “Mass protest against residence” from Netanyahu and take their children “to at least be able to watch them on television.”
“Get out to the streets. Talk to the media. The situation here is extremely difficult,” he asks in the video of almost three minutes in which he also appeals to the US president, Donald Trump, who acts. “He is the only powerful man In the world that can press Netanyahu to accept an agreement, “he adds.
The Captive family spread a statement to the Hebrew press through the Hostage Families Forum, which brings together the majority of relatives of the kidnapped, qualifying the situation as a “misfortune” for their country. “On the eve of the holocaust commemoration, in which It is tradition to say ‘Never again’there is an Israeli citizen asking for help in a Hamas tunnel. This is a misfortune for the state of Israel, “they denounced.
“Our OMRI is strong and will not break, but his heart is broken. A year and a half and 58 hostages are waiting to be brought back. We will not give up and we will continue fighting Until Omri returns with us, “adds the statement. Look, who was kidnapped from his home at the Kibutz Nahal Oz during Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, had already appeared in another video propaganda of Islamists in April 2024.
Negotiations between Israel and Hamas for a new high -fire agreement still have no progress for more than a month when the Netanyahu government ordered to resume daily bombings against the Gaza Strip. As a source of Hamas reported on Tuesday, Egypt and Qatar presented a new draft on Tuesday which includes a high fire “between 5 and 7 years” and the release of all hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israel.
The new Egyptian-Catari plan “also includes the withdrawal of the Israeli army of Gaza and the Reconstruction of the enclave Palestine with international guarantees, “said the source. However, the Israeli government has made it clear that it does not intend to withdraw the enclave forces and insists that the end of the bombing It will only arrive if Hamas releases the 59 hostages that retains and leaves weapons.
