The Islamist group Hamas released this Monday the video of an Israeli hostage captured in Gaza, who is still alive and is among the two hundred captives in the Gaza Stripwhile the armed conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militias in the enclave continues.

“They care about me, they are taking care of me, they give me pills, everything is fine, I just ask that they return me home as soon as possible. To my family, my parents and my brothers, please get me out of here as soon as possible,” the hostage, 21 years old and from the town of Shoham, expressed in a video recording where she is seen lying on a bed wounded in the arm.

The young woman identifies herself as Maya Shamwas kidnapped on Saturday, October 7 “early in the morning”, when she was leaving the party near Gaza and where at least 260 people were massacred. Others captured during the Hamas land, sea and air attack that caught Israel by surprise.

As she added in the video, Sham injured her hand “seriously” at that time, after which she was taken to Gaza, where she says she was treated for three hours for her injury. In response to the dissemination of the video, the Israeli military spokesperson has claimed to have informed the young woman’s family a week ago that she was kidnapped.

Furthermore, he has accused Hamas of trying to “present itself as a human organizationwhen it is a terrorist organization that is responsible for the murder and kidnapping of babies, women, children and the elderly.”

Hamas says it will free foreign hostages

For his part, Abu Obeida, the spokesman for the al-Qasam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, has stated that they are going to release some of the hostages of “different nationalities“who are being held in the Gaza Strip. In addition, he has stated that those kidnapped people, in reference to foreigners, are considered his “guests” and that they will be released when “the conditions on the ground” are met.

“Because we have nothing against them,” said Abu Obeida, although he warned other countries that if they help Israel, they will consider these hostages as the rest of the kidnapped people who are Israelis. And he has claimed that the Al Qasam Brigades has 200 hostages in its possession and that other militias have around 50.