Hamas published on Saturday a video of the hostages Keith Segal (64) and Omri Miran (47).
The two hostages say the video was filmed two days ago. They also talk about not being able to celebrate Passover this year.
They also say that they saw the demonstrations in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and called on the demonstrators to continue the protest.
Protestors in Tel Aviv called on the government to find alternative solutions, insisting that military pressure would not lead to the release of the hostages. “This concept has failed,” demonstrators chanted in Tel Aviv on Saturday after the video’s release.
The hostages’ families have not yet approved the publishing of the video or its contents.
Second hostage video during Passover
The video is the second to be released during Passover. Shortly before the holiday began, a video showing hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin was released.
In the video, Hersh discusses how he was captured and the events after his capture.
His parents both approved the video’s publication. His mother, Rachel, has been a central figure in the campaign to release the hostages and was named one of Time’s 100 most important people of 2023.
Biden renewed his push to release all the hostages on Saturday, saying, “I will not rest until every hostage, like Abigail, ripped from their families and held by Hamas, is back in the arms of their loved ones. They have my word.”
Abigail Idan (four) was one of the hostages released during the November ceasefire; she and her two siblings (six and nine) survived the massacre that killed their parents by hiding in a neighbor’s home and next to their mother’s body.
The Jerusalem Post will not publish these videos as they are part of Hamas’s psychological warfare.
Tzvi Joffre contributed to this report.
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