Hamas’s armed wing mentioned in a video on Saturday that an Israeli-British hostage had died from wounds sustained from Israeli air strikes.
The Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades earlier on Saturday launched an 11-second clip displaying captive Nadav Popplewell alive and figuring out himself.
The Hostages and Lacking Households Discussion board marketing campaign group recognized him in an announcement.
Within the video, the footage was superimposed with textual content in Arabic and Hebrew that learn: “Time is working out. Your authorities is mendacity.”
The hostage had a black eye within the clip however confirmed no different seen indicators of accidents.
Sporting a white T-shirt and showing to talk underneath duress, he launched himself as 51-year-old Popplewell, from kibbutz Nirim in southern Israel.
In a while Saturday, Hamas launched what seemed to be a full model of the video from which the sooner clip was taken.
Hamas claimed within the video that Popplewell had died on Saturday of his earlier wounds.
“Nadav Popplewell, a British citizen, died at the moment after being significantly injured a month in the past (as a consequence of Zionist air strikes),” a superimposed textual content in English mentioned within the video under an image of the hostage proven in a white photograph body.
“His well being deteriorated as a result of he didn’t obtain intensive medical care as a result of the enemy has destroyed the Gaza Strip’s hospitals,” Abu Obeida, the spokesman of the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, mentioned in a separate assertion.
AFP was unable to independently confirm the authenticity of the video.
Israeli army spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari didn’t point out Popplewell throughout a televised briefing, however mentioned that troops have been nonetheless searching for to deliver the hostages residence.
“Even at this hour, each fighter (soldier) and commander on the battlefield envisions the hostages, sees them, thinks of them, and fights to deliver them residence,” he mentioned.
