The armed wing of Palestinian militant group Hamas released footage Friday purporting to show two hostages seized in its October 2023 attack on Israel alive in Gaza City late last month.
The video shows hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal in a car being driven through a neighbourhood with destroyed buildings, calling on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to carry out a planned military offensive to conquer Gaza City.
Gilboa-Dalal was attending the Nova music festival in southern Israel when he was abducted by militants during their unprecedented attack nearly two years ago.
In the video released on Friday, he says in Hebrew that he is in Gaza City and that the footage was filmed on August 28.
Towards the end of the clip he is shown meeting another captive, Alon Ohel. It is the first video to be released of Ohel since he was kidnapped.
AFP was unable to immediately verify the video or the date it was filmed.
In February, Hamas published a video showing Gilboa-Dalal and a second captive in a vehicle watching a hostage release ceremony during a brief ceasefire.
Hamas’s 2023 attack resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures.
Of the 251 hostages seized during the attack, 47 are still in Gaza, including 25 the Israeli military says are dead.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed at least 64,300 Palestinians, most of them civilians, according to figures from the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza that the United Nations considers reliable.
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