Tal Wax holds a poster with {a photograph} of her uncle Keith Siegel, a hostage held in Gaza for the reason that Oct. 7 assaults, throughout a press convention in Madrid, Spain, on Jan. 25.
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Tal Wax holds a poster with {a photograph} of her uncle Keith Siegel, a hostage held in Gaza for the reason that Oct. 7 assaults, throughout a press convention in Madrid, Spain, on Jan. 25.
Manu Fernandez/AP
Hamas has launched a video exhibiting footage of two captives held in Gaza, as a part of an effort to show that the 2 males are nonetheless alive.
One of many two hostages is a U.S. citizen, Keith Siegel, who’s believed to be held in Gaza after he was reportedly kidnapped on Oct. 7 from his residence locally of Kfar Azza, near the Gaza Strip.
It was one in all a number of websites that militants entered to the east of Gaza on that day, after they killed greater than 1,000 folks and took a whole lot of individuals hostage.
The video launched by the militant group reveals Siegel and one other hostage, Omri Miran, who was reportedly taken from his own residence in one other group, a kibbutz referred to as Nahal Oz.
Within the video — which, like different hostage movies, was filmed beneath duress — Siegel says, “I wish to inform my household that I really like you very a lot.”
He provides, “We’re in peril right here. There are explosions. It is traumatic and horrifying, and it has been occurring for a really very long time …”
Within the video, Miran additionally refers to explosions and says, “The scenario right here isn’t nice, it is powerful.” Each males urge the Israeli authorities to “attain a deal” to free the hostages.
Inside hours of the video’s launch, Yuval Segev, a co-worker of Siegel’s spouse, was participating in one of many frequent demonstrations that decision upon Israeli authorities to assist speed up the discharge of the hostages.
Segev stated Siegel’s spouse Aviva had final been in contact together with her husband through message on the morning of Oct. 7.
“It was not a celebration,” he advised NPR in response to the video’s launch by Hamas on Saturday. “However it was a really optimistic second to listen to him.”
Siegel’s spouse Aviva advised NPR earlier this month that she had been launched by Hamas after 51 days in captivity, and had not heard from Keith since then. She final noticed him mendacity on a mattress.
“I hugged him,” she advised Morning Version‘s Leila Fadel. “I advised him, you please be sturdy for me, and I will be sturdy for you.”
Earlier this week, Hamas launched one other video showing to point out an announcement by Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an American-Israeli man who was additionally kidnapped on Oct. 7.
NPR’s Becky Sullivan contributed reporting from Tel Aviv, Israel.
