His family asked the media not to broadcast the video. Saturday, the Brigades Ezzedine al-Qassamarmed branch of Hamas, broadcast a recording in which an elongated man appears, his head and the left arm covered with bandages. Since March 18, Hamas has published Several hostage videos and claims that Israel puts their lives in danger by continuing its Daily bombings On Gaza.
Speaking Hebrew with a Russian accent, the man in the video presents himself as “the number 24 prisoner” and suggests that he was injured in an Israeli bombardment. AFP, like most Israeli media, has identified hostage as Maxim Herkin, who will be 37 years old at the end of May, but has no way of checking his state of health. Speaking under stress like all the hostages appearing in previous videos, the man refers to the fact that Israel will soon celebrate the anniversary of his creation.
A video shot just before May 1st
This suggests that the video was shot shortly before May 1, the date on which Israel celebrated according to the Jewish calendar the 77th anniversary of its creation, May 15, 1948. Maxim Herkin, who had emigrated to Israel with his mother, was removed the October 7, 2023 has The Rave-Party Nova, Theater of bigger massacre committed that day by Hamas fighters.
Father of a little girl, he wrote to his mother just before his abduction: “Everything is fine. I come home. Of the 251 people kidnapped that day, 58 are still retained in Gaza, 34 of which were declared dead by the Israeli army.
On Saturday evening, a few thousand Israelis brandishing portraits of hostages again gathered in Tel Aviv to claim from their government that it acts to obtain their release. The government of Benyamin Netanyahou Affirms that military pressure is the only way to force Hamas to release hostages.
