Sick new Hamas propaganda video of gaunt hostages prompts new pressure to renew cease-fire
Hamas published a new propaganda video showing two emaciated Israeli hostages begging for their lives, as their families call on President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to renew the cease-fire deal.Hostages Elkana Bohbot, 36, and Yosef-Haim Ohana, 24, appeared in the latest video published Monday night, with the two Nova music festival survivors calling for the war to end as they have little access to food and claiming that they nearly died from a recent Israeli airstrike in Gaza.Bohbot’s family called directly on Trump and Netanyahu on Tuesday to renew the cease-fire deal that fell apart earlier this month, fearing that Bohbot would soon starve to death in captivity.“Please, imagine this is your son, the father of your grandchild, waiting to see daylight, hearing IDF bombs, and living in constant fear for his life,” the family said in a statement.The propaganda video shows Bohbot and Ohana sitting together on the ground, dressed in black shirts and gray pants, as the haggard pair claims they were nearly killed by an Israeli airstrike on March 18.Ohana said the two were living in a purgatory as war continues all around them, while their food supplies run low amid the squeeze in humanitarian aid entering Gaza.“Before the latest cease-fire deal on January 19, when the border crossings were closed throughout the war, there was almost no food,” Ohana said.“The situation was difficult and there was no safe place.“We felt neither dead nor alive,” he added.
Bohbot’s family said they were worried about how long he’d be able to last after 536 days in captivity, adding that the man suffers from asthma.“You can see in the video that he is in bad shape, that he has lost a lot of weight from continued starvation, that he is suffering from problems with his skin and his breathing,” they said.
In the video, the two men also made a desperate plea to Ohad Ben Ami, another Israeli captive who was held with them before being released in Febru...