Hamas publishes propaganda video of two hostages in Gaza - Israel information

Hamas revealed a propaganda video on its Telegram channel Saturday night, giving an indication of life to 2 hostages.

The 2 hostages within the video are Elkana Bohbot, 35, and Yosef-Chaim Ohana, 24.

Hamas beforehand revealed a video of the 2 in late March.

The 2 have been kidnapped from the Nova Music Competition on October 7, 2023.

Within the final video revealed of them, they seemed pale and have been sitting on the ground.

Yosef-Chaim Ohana (L) and Elkana Bohbot (R) in a Hamas propaganda video, Might 10, 2025 (CREDIT: TELEGRAM)

Throughout the propaganda video, Bohbot seems too sick to operate, with Ohana claiming that Bohbot has been self-harming.

Ohana states that he, together with a Hamas terrorist, intervened just a few days in the past with a view to cease Bohbot from harming himself once more.

“We’ve got misplaced our world and our hope,” Bohbot seems to say.

Ohana additionally seems to reference Sara Netanyahu’s assertion that fewer than 24 hostages stay alive, stating “It appears she is aware of what you do not.”

Ohana additionally states that Bohbot seems unwilling to eat or drink, including, “We’ve got little meals on this horrible actuality.”

“I’ve additionally stopped consuming, because the destiny of my colleague (Bohbot) can also be my destiny,” Ohana added.

“Our destiny is in your arms,” Ohana says in a message to Israeli authorities, earlier than including that “your arms are stained with blood, you who’re making selections.”

“It is time to cease this warfare. Time is operating out,” he seems to conclude.

Hamas, on the finish of the video, put up two sentences in Hebrew, Arabic, and English. The primary learn “Solely a Ceasefire Settlement Brings Them Again Alive,” and the second “Time is Working Out.”

In response, Elkana Bohbot’s household said: “How rather more can we bear? How rather more can they bear? The truth that they’re nonetheless there – it’s a shame. Elkana and Yosef are crying out to be rescued.”

“Whereas all of Israel hears their pleas, a handful of decision-makers refuse to hear. We name on them – discover the braveness and convey them and all of the hostages dwelling,” their assertion continued.

Who’s Elkana Bohbot?

It was revealed in February that Bohbot, who has bronchial asthma, is being held in inhumane circumstances within the Gaza tunnels, Channel 12 reported, citing testimony from a launched hostage who was held with him.

Throughout his time in captivity, Bohbot developed a extreme pores and skin illness brought on by the dismal circumstances wherein he’s being held.

“After all, he didn’t obtain correct medical therapy,” the launched hostage was cited as saying by the information outlet.

Bohbot was held together with 5 different hostages in a slim, 30-meter-deep tunnel. They may barely stand or stroll on account of a scarcity of house and slept on a humid sheet stuffed with mildew.

Who’s Yosef-Chaim Ohana?

Ohana, from Kiryat Malachi, attended the music competition after his good friend Daniel Sharabi invited him and some different individuals to have a good time Ohana’s going-away occasion earlier than his journey to the US for a pilot’s course.

In an interview with The Jerusalem Put up in New York, Sharabi mentioned he had wished to go to the competition within the morning, however Ohana wished to go at night time, so that they went at night time.

At 6:30 a.m., the music stopped on the competition because the air raid sirens sounded, he mentioned. After they began to go away, they noticed a woman having a panic assault. Since that they had each served collectively as medics within the Givati Brigade, they stopped to assist her. Two of their associates ran to their automobile and began packing up, he mentioned.

Ohana and Sharabi helped anybody they noticed who was wounded by gunfire and took them to paramedics to get correct therapy, Ohana’s mom advised Ynet. “They tried to run towards the primary highway, however then they noticed that they have been being fired at by RPGs,” she mentioned. “Yosef-Chaim ran to the left, and his good friend ran to the correct and hid underneath a automobile.”

Sharabi mentioned: “I noticed him arise behind a automobile. He popped up and went down. He was shot by an RPG. “The subsequent time Sharabi noticed Ohana was in a video Hamas posted. It confirmed the terrorists kidnapping him and bringing him to Gaza.