Hamas releases video showing two Israeli captives alive

2025-04-06 11:42:00

The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades released the more than two-minute clip, in which one of the two men appears with his right cheek and right hand bandaged.

AFP was unable to verify the authenticity of the footage or when it was filmed.

The video was released a day after Israeli forces launched a ground offensive in Gaza City in the Shujaiya area "to expand the security zone" inside the Palestinian territory.

Hamas's armed wing said on Friday the offensive was putting captives' lives at risk.

On October 7, 2023, Palestinian militants abducted 251 captives.

Fifty-eight captives remain in captivity, including 34 whom the Israeli military says are dead.

During a recent ceasefire that ended on March 18 when Israel resumed air strikes on Gaza, militants released 33 captives, eight of whom were dead.