Final harrowing moments of Tanzanian student Joshua Mollel’s life caught on film before Hamas butchers murder him in cold blood during Oct 7 attack
These are the last moments before Hamas terrorists kidnap and massacre a Tanzanian agriculture student.
Joshua Mollel, 21, was one of three agricultural interns from Tanzania living and working on a dairy farm in Kibbutz Nir Oz when Hamas launched its surprise raid on Black Saturday.
Israeli authorities discovered that he was “killed immediately after being kidnapped by Hamas,” the Tanzanian Foreign Ministry said earlier this week, confirming his death.
New footage, too graphic to publish, shows Hamas gunmen shooting his corpse several times after he died.
An unknown man with a gun stands at his chest and shoots him eight times, while several more people, all armed with guns or knives, shout “Allahu Akbar” over and over.
About half a dozen armed Hamas fighters assaulting Joshua Mollel, whose face is covered in blood that appears to be from a wound at the top of his face
Footage, too graphic to publish, showed Hamas gunmen shooting his dead body several times after he died
Joshua, the eldest of five children, had completed a degree in agricultural studies in Morogoro and arrived in Israel in September, the first time he had left his home country
Other footage taken shortly before his death, also too graphic to publish, shows half a dozen armed Hamas fighters assaulting the young student, whose face is covered in blood that appears to come from a wound at the top of his face.
Israel said in a message to
'They filmed his last moments, before brutally stabbing him, standing on his chest and spraying his body with bullets.
'Barbaric monsters. May Joshua's memory be a blessing.”
Joshua, the eldest of five children, had completed a degree in agricultural studies in Morogoro and arrived in Israel in September, the first time he had left his home country.
Joshua stayed at Kibbutz Nir Oz (photo), where he did an internship on a dairy farm
On Black Saturday, 1,200 people were murdered by Hamas
Hamas targeted several kibbutzim in the early morning hours on Black Saturday
He had plans to open his own farming business and interned at the Kibbutz Nir Oz dairy farm to learn more about agriculture.
On the day of the October 7 attack, he and two of the other Tanzanian students participating in the exchange program, Ezekiel Kitiku and Clemence Mtenga, rushed to their nearest shelters after hearing sirens warning of the attack.
Because they had different shifts and worked on different farms, they were not together and had to communicate via WhatsApp, which apparently stopped around 10am.
Ezekiel told the BBC that he heard no news about the others after this until he found out that Clemence, originally held hostage, was declared dead on November 18 and his body was returned to Tanzania.
Weeks after the October 7 attack, Joshua's father, Louito, said he last spoke to him two days before the Hamas attack.
“I said, 'Be on good behavior because you're somewhere new, and make the most of the internship you're here for,'” he said.
Israeli forces here have stepped up attacks on suspected militants, police have clashed with protesters and there has been an increase in violent attacks on Palestinians by Israeli settlers.
As the IDF has pushed into Gaza as part of its campaign to defeat Hamas, they have highlighted the militant group's extensive tunnel network as emblematic of the way the group entrenches itself and its military activities in civilian areas.
Smoke rises after an Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, seen from southern Israel
“My son wants to make his fortune in the agricultural sector and become one of the most successful farmers in Tanzania,” his father said at the time.
'We can't eat or sleep. When I go to the market, people ask me why I lose so much weight,” his father said weeks after the attack.
At the end of October, he told AFP: 'I constantly feel bad because my son is not a warrior. He has just been to training but is now in trouble.'
He described his son as “polite, obedient and serious” in his work.
Louito told the BBC that Joshua's younger siblings “ask me every morning and evening, 'Daddy, we want to talk to our brother.'”