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Hamas releases new video of Israeli captives
Hamas has published new video footage of two Israeli captives, along with the message “time is running out”. Israeli media identified one of the captives in the video as 24-year-old Guy Gilboa-Dalal.
The three-minute video, published on Hamas Telegram accounts, shows Gilboa-Dalal above the ground in a car speaking in Hebrew. He is later seen talking with another captive.
During the war, Hamas has repeatedly released footage of captives it is holding, a move Israeli PM Netanyahu has called “psychological warfare”.
Israeli opposition figure says captive video ‘heartbreaking’, slams Netanyahu’s ‘political war’
Yair Golan, head of the opposition Democrats party, has said the Hamas footage showing two Israeli captives, including Guy Gilboa-Dalal, is “heartbreaking and underscores the urgent need to bring everyone back”.
Posting on X, Golan wrote that the Gaza war was initially “justified” but has since turned into “Netanyahu’s war for survival, instead of returning the hostages and ensuring Israel’s security”.
“We must and pledge to stop this political war, bring Guy and his 47 companions home, and put an end to this abandonment,” said Golan.
Real Gaza death toll could be double official number, Israeli historian says
An Israeli historian has suggested that the number of people killed in Israel’s war in Gaza is far higher than the toll cited by the UN and count provided by local health officials.
There is consensus among scholars that the number of Palestinians killed by Israel since October 2023 is twice the widely cited figure of 60,000, meaning that it’s possible 120,000 people could so far have been slaughtered in the Strip, according to Raz Segal, who is also a professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
“We reach a horrific conclusion, that Israel has killed directly about 120,000 Palestinians in Gaza so far and has created the conditions of a painful death of around 360,000 more – almost half a million people out of a population of nearly 2.3 million, more than 20 percent,” he told the Corbyn-led tribunal in London.
“Those that deny genocide in Gaza believe any genocide must look like the Holocaust,” he said.
“The Holocaust didn’t begin with Nazis trying to kill as many Jews as they could.”
