Hamas releases disturbing new video showing three female Israeli hostages – including two teenagers – begging to be released from Gaza

Palestinian terror group Hamas has released a disturbing new video showing three young Israeli women who have been held hostage in Gaza since the October 7 attack.

The three women have been identified as 19-year-old Daniella Gilboa, 19-year-old Karina Ariev and 30-year-old Doron Steinbrecher.

This is the first time they have been seen alive since Hamas gunmen brutally kidnapped them on October 7 during the terror group’s attack on southern Israel, although the two younger captives were seen in footage released earlier this month and showing them the day they were kidnapped. .

Facing the camera against a beige background, the women said they had been held for 107 days, suggesting the video may have been shot on Sunday.

In the five-minute edited clip, complete with video footage, the three women identify themselves and ask the Israeli government to send them back home.

They also accuse Israel of abandoning them, which, as with previous hostage videos, is a claim likely made under duress.

Karina and Daniela were last seen in videos on October 7, along with two other teenagers, their faces bloodied and terrified.

TIn one shocking shot, they were lined up against a wall Gazatheir hands tied behind them, with Liri Albag and Agam Berger, 18 and 19 respectively.

The four girls have become one of the symbols used by groups calling on Hamas and Israel to negotiate the release of the hostages. Their photos were held up by Israel’s ambassador to the UN earlier this month.

Gilad Erdan told the meeting: ‘This photo, I hope you’ve seen it. Look at these girls, look at them. These are the before and after photos of Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Daniela Gilboa and Agam Berger.

“See how the hope in their eyes has evaporated into horror and how their smiling faces have been beaten and abused. Look at their faces – why are you silent? What did you do here to bring them home? Nothing.’

Daniela’s parents met with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron this week to press for their release.

The girls were snatched from Nahal Oz, near the Gaza border, in the first hours of the Hamas attack on October 7, which killed 1,200 people and raped dozens of women.

The first sign of life came when Hamas shared a short clip of those stationed in Gaza, along with other videos showing them being bundled into trucks at gunpoint.

More than 200 people were dragged back across the border into Gaza.

While many have been released under deals between Hamas and Israel, Daniella, Karina and Doron are among those still held in the coastal area.

Earlier this month, after that negotiations stalled after a failed ceasefire between Hamas and the IDF, with the parents of the youngest female hostages sharing the heartbreaking photos as they demanded their immediate release.

They appealed to mothers and fathers around the world to speak out as gruesome details emerge that some female prisoners were raped at gunpoint.

Others had limbs amputated, it was reported.

“Imagine if it was your daughter, with your little girl in their hands,” Daniela’s mother Orly, 38, said at the time. “What would you imagine?”

Liri’s father Eli, 54, said: ‘Just think for a day when you are disconnected from your daughter and you know they are in the hands of bad people. Then tell me what you would say after 90 days. This is killing us. Every minute seems like an hour.’

The release of the video today came shortly after a ruling by the UN Supreme Court that Israel must do everything it can to prevent genocide in Gaza.

The court called for the “immediate and unconditional release” of hostages kidnapped during the October 7 attack.

While the ruling denied Palestinian hopes for a binding order to end the war in Gaza, it also dealt a legal setback for Israel, which had hoped to settle a case brought under the Genocide Convention established in the ashes of the Holocaust. to wipe the table.

The court ruled that there was a case over whether Palestinian rights were denied in a war that it said caused serious humanitarian damage.

It also called on Palestinian armed groups to release hostages captured in the October 7 attacks on Israel that had precipitated the conflict.

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said the decision was a welcome reminder that “no state is above the law.” Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told Reuters the decision would help “isolate the occupation and expose its crimes in Gaza.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the court had “rightly rejected the outrageous demand” to deprive Israel of what he called its “fundamental right to defend itself” by ordering it to stop fighting.

“But the very claim that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians is not only false, it is outrageous, and the court’s willingness to even discuss this is a shame that will not be erased for generations,” he said.

At least 26,083 Palestinians, about 70 percent of them women, young children and adolescents, have since been killed in the Gaza Strip in Israeli bombing and ground offensive, according to Hamas’s health ministry.