2023-10-16 20:24:54
The terrorist group Hamas published this Monday a video of “one of the prisoners in Gaza”, showing a 21-year-old French-Israeli girl who remains detained in the Gaza Strip following the attack by the Palestinian group on the electronic music festival. in southern Israel.
The video, which was shared through the official Telegram channel and might not yet be verified, includes montages of the woman receiving medical treatment for a wound on her arm while lying down. According to the text that accompanies the piece, the hostage was kidnapped on October 7, “on the first day” of the Hamas attack on Israeli territory.
“Hello, my name is Maya Sham. I am 21 years old and I am from Shoham. I am in Gaza right now. I returned early on Saturday morning from a party in Sderot. I seriously injured my hand. They brought me to Gaza and took care of me in the hospital here,” he explains in the recording, subtitled in Arabic and collected by the Israeli newspaper ‘Haaretz‘.
Sham, who appears looking at the camera on a brown background following several shots in which a person adjusts the bandages on her hand, asked to be taken home “soon” to be reunited with her family. “Please get me out of here as soon as possible,” the young woman asked, speaking in Hebrew.
The Israel Defense Forces confirmed this Monday that 199 people are being held by Palestinian militiamen in the Gaza Strip, a new official figure that the Army has made public following having notified their respective families.
Additionally, Israeli authorities reported that they had recovered more than 250 bodies at a music festival venue in the Negev desert when Palestinian militias carried out armed raids. The music festival was organized to coincide with the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. It started at 11pm on Friday and lasted all night with thousands of attendees, mostly Israelis between 20 and 40 years old.
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