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2025-04-20 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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In third Hamas video, Elkana Bohbot pleads for his release, says he fears for his life
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[IsraelTimes] Looking gaunt and distraught, Bohbot notes petitions calling to free the captives even at cost of ending war, says signatories ‘care more about their citizens than government does’
Hamas on Saturday released a propaganda video of hostage Elkana Bohbot — the third time it has published footage of the captive held in Gaza.
Hamas has previously issued similar videos of hostages it is holding, in what Israel says is deplorable psychological warfare.
Shortly after the video was published by the terror group, Bohbot’s family approved the publication of the video in Israeli media, which does not share images of hostages without their families’ permission.
In the video, a distraught and gaunt-looking Bohbot addresses his family in a mock phone call — evidently on his captors’ orders — and tells his wife and son that he dreams about returning home to them.
“Keep doing everything for me!” he cries, adding he has “appealed to the state, appealed to the government, appealed to everyone.”
“I have appealed to the IDF, also. I have heard that they are signing petitions to stop the war and release us,” he continues, referring to the recent wave of petitions signed by IDF reservists and others calling for a hostage deal and an end to the war.
“That’d be good, keep going,” he said, adding that “they care more about their citizens than the government.”
His health is not good, and he is afraid that he will die, he said.
Bohbot also addressed his brother Uriel, asking him to go to the White House and ask US President Donald Trump to urgently get him out.
While Hamas propaganda videos featuring hostages are widely believed to be scripted and dictated by the terror group, Bohbot insisted in a previous video that he asked his captors to film him, and that his words were his own.
“I am the one who asked to do these videos. Hamas did not tell me to make these videos. This is not psychological warfare,” he said in the video released by Hamas last month.
Bohbot, 36, was kidnapped from the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and abducting 251, sparking the war in Gaza.
He is among the 24 hostages believed to be alive who were slated for release in the proposed second stage of the ceasefire deal agreed upon in January, which fell apart after its first stage ended in March, with Israel renewing the fighting in Gaza.
Terror groups in the Gaza Strip still hold a total of 59 hostages, including 58 of the 251 abducted on October 7, 2023. They include the bodies of at least 35 confirmed dead by the IDF.
The January 19 ceasefire deal stipulated that negotiations would begin in early February for a second phase of the deal. The outline for the phase broadly envisions the release of all remaining living hostages in exchange for a full IDF withdrawal from Gaza and an end to the war.
The ceasefire deal also envisioned honest dealing from Hamas instead of hudna taqqiya, and yet Hamas played stupid games, winning painful prizes instead.
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