Hostage Sasha Trupanov, who was kidnapped to the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, has already been featured in a video twice. Now the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad has released a third psychological warfare video.
The video published on Wednesday shows a young, bearded man who says his name is Sasha Trupanov and that he is 29 years old.
The man talks about the Israeli military operations in Lebanon that started in the second half of September and the Israeli air strikes on Iran that took place at the end of October.
Israel: “Psychological terror of the hostage takers”
He also criticizes the actions of the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip because it endangers the lives of the hostages. Israel classifies these types of videos as psychological terror of the hostage takers.
The hostage family organization said the young man’s relatives had agreed to the video’s release in Israel. Such videos are usually made under coercion by the hostage takers.
Mother appeals to Israel’s leadership
Trupanov’s mother Yelena, who was herself released a year ago as part of a hostage situation, said: “I am happy to see that my son is alive and that he can survive the terrible conditions of his captivity.” , she sees despair and hopelessness on his face and worries about his physical and mental health. Addressing Israel’s political leadership, she said, “Look my son in the face and save him, now!”
Father was killed in the Hamas attack
Trupanov, who has dual Israeli and Russian citizenship, was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz during the unprecedented attack by radical Islamist Hamas and other militant Palestinian groups on southern Israel – along with his partner Sapir Cohen and his mother and grandmother, Jelena Trupanov and Irena. Tati. His father, Vitaly Trupanov, was killed in the Hamas attack on Nir Oz.
The three women were released in November under the mediation of Egypt, Qatar and the US as part of the only agreement between Israel and Hamas for the release of hostages and a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. A total of 105 hostages kidnapped in the Gaza Strip were released, and in return 240 Palestinian prisoners were released from Israeli custody.
Qatar withdrew as mediator
Efforts led by Egypt, the United States and Qatar to broker a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of Israeli hostages have been unsuccessful for months. Qatar withdrew from the indirect negotiations as a mediator on Saturday. The emirate said it would only rejoin the negotiations if both sides showed “their will and seriousness.”
Islamic Jihad is linked to the Islamist-Palestinian organization Hamas, which sparked the Gaza war with its major attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. According to Israeli figures, the attack killed 1,206 people, most of them civilians. In addition, 251 people were kidnapped as hostages in the Gaza Strip. Of the 97 hostages still there, 34 are said to be dead.
Source: Krone
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