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Islamic Jihad airs propaganda clip claiming to show hostage alive in Gaza on Jan. 5
2024-01-09
[IsraelTimes] In latest psychological terror, group shares video of Elad Katzir, kidnapped on October 7, mourning death of fellow Nir Oz member, calling on government to secure his release

The Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror group released a new propaganda video Monday purporting to show Israeli hostage Elad Katzir alive in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip on January 5, after he was kidnapped during the October 7 Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
onslaught.

Katzir, 47, was one of around 75 hostages taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, when some 3,000 faceless myrmidons burst across the border into Israel from the Gaza Strip by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people and seizing over 240 hostages — mostly civilians — of all ages under the cover of a deluge of thousands of rockets fired at Israeli towns and cities.

In response, Israel vowed to eliminate the terror group, and launched a wide-scale military offensive aimed at destroying Hamas’s military and governance capabilities and securing the release of the hostages, some of whom are being held by terror groups other than Hamas.

The latest video shows Katzir mourning the death of his friend Tamir Adar, whose death was announced on January 5, in an apparent attempt to date the video. Adar was killed by Hamas faceless myrmidons on Nir Oz on October 7.

Seemingly speaking under duress with Hebrew music in the background, Katzir also called on the Israeli government to do more to bring about his release.

His mother Hanna Katzir was also taken hostage from Nir Oz on October 7 and was released as part of a week-long truce deal in late November. His father Rami was killed in the massacre.

Elad Katzir was also featured in a previous Islamic Jihad propaganda video on December 20, alongside another hostage, Gadi Mozes.

It is believed that 132 hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza — not all of them alive — after 105 civilians were released from Hamas captivity during the November pause in fighting. Four hostages were released prior to that, and one was rescued by troops. The bodies of eight hostages have also been recovered and three hostages were mistakenly killed by the military.

The Israel Defense Forces has confirmed the deaths of 25 of those still held by Hamas, citing new intelligence and findings obtained by troops operating in Gaza.
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