The Palestinian Islamist extremist group Hamas, author of the brutal attacks in Israel on October 7, released this Monday a video of the first proof of life of one of the hostages who are kidnapped in the Gaza Strip. Is about Maya Shama 21-year-old girl. “Foreign prisoners are our guests and will be released when conditions allow”said the terrorist movement.
In the video, it was published on the official account of the radical group on the Telegram messaging network and a young woman is seen lying down, having a wound on one of her arms treated.
The writing indicates that she was kidnapped “on the first day” of the Hamas attack in Israeli territory, on the 7th of this month.
Hamas released video of a hostage
“My name is Maya Sham, I am 21 years old and I am from (the town of) Shoham. Right now I’m in Loop. I returned early Saturday morning from a party in (the city of) Sderot. They seriously injured my hand. They brought me to Loop and they took me to the hospital here. “They have been taking care of me, giving me medication,” the young woman said in the video, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
“I just ask that you take me back home as soon as possible to my family, my parents, my brothers. Please, get me out of here as soon as possible“, he pointed.
“The foreign prisoners are our guests and They will be released when conditions permit. We urge all countries in the world to warn their compatriots not to participate in the enemy army,” said the spokesman for the Ezedin al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas. Abu Obeida, according to the Europa Press news agency.
Abu Obeida explained in a televised speech that the prisoner numbers are not concrete because there are “practical and security difficulties” that prevent an exhaustive count, although there would be 200 under the control of Hamas and another 50 in the hands of others. resistance factions, in other places.
Regarding a possible Israeli ground military intervention, the spokesman for the armed group stressed: “It does not scare us,” and added: “We are ready for it.”
At least 199 people are kidnapped by Hamas
Earlier, the Israeli Army updated the number of people who were kidnapped by Hamas to 199. The previous figures, released on Sunday, accounted for 155 people. “We have informed the families of 199 hostages,” declared the military spokesman today Daniel Hagari, at a press conference.
The spokesperson stated that “the efforts regarding the hostages are a national priority,” according to the AFP news agency. “The Army and Israel are working day and night” to free them, he added.
More than 1,400 people died in Israel in the Hamas attack on the 7th of this month, according to the latest figures provided by Israeli officials. For its part, More than 2,750 people died in Israeli bombings of retaliation in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian enclave governed by Hamas and besieged by Israel, according to authorities.
Source: Ambito
