Three of the estimated 136 hostages Hamas has held captive in the Gaza Strip since the deadly October 7 attack on Israeli soil They appeared this Monday in a propaganda video in which the Islamists announced that they will make their fate known. “What do you think? Are they all dead, some dead and others alive, or are they all still alive?” he asked today, in an undated video shared on the social network Telegram, the armed wing of Hamas, the Al-Qassam Brigades.

The three hostages shown in the 33 seconds of footage are Noa Argamani, 29, Yossi Sharabi, 53, and Itay Svirsky, 38. The Islamists close the video announcing “tonight we will inform you of their fate.” This message is followed by a first video published Sunday night by Hamas on Telegram, in which the same three captives are seen introducing themselves and asking the Government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop the war and bring them home. .

It is not known where the video was recorded, nor if the images are recent. The three hostages show no signs of mistreatment and they seem in good health. Hamas has previously shared other similar videos, since on October 7 thousands of its militants killed 1,200 people in southern Israel and kidnapped some 240 people, beginning an unprecedented escalation of war in the Strip.

It is believed that 136 hostages – including 25 already dead – are still being held by Hamas, but on Sunday the Islamist group He claimed to have lost contact with some of them due to the massive military offensive by land and air.. “Most likely, many of them have died recently, the rest are in great danger with every passing hour and the enemy’s leadership and army are responsible,” Hamas armed wing spokesman Abu Obeida said in a statement. televised event framed in the 100 days of war. “Any dialogue before the Israeli aggression ends is useless,” Obeida added.

In total, 110 captives have been freed, 105 of them during the week-long truce that took place in November in exchange for the release of 240 Palestinian prisoners. In turn, Israel has recovered the bodies of 11 dead hostages, and Israeli forces themselves have mistakenly killed 4 of them, one during a failed rescue operation.