Hamas on Monday released a video showing a hostage the terrorist group took during its Oct. 7 attacks revealing that two of her fellow captives have died.
The group had previously released a short video showing hostages Noa Argamani, Yossi Sharabi, and Itai Svirsky, teasing that it would later "inform you of their fate." Hamas invited viewers to guess whether the hostages were "all killed," "some killed," or "all alive." The terrorist group followed up on that video with another in which Argamani said that the other two hostages had died in a strike from the Israel Defense Forces.
"I was located in a building," Argamani says in the clip, according to a translation accompanying the video. "It was bombed by an IDF airstrike. F-16 fighter jet rockets hit us three. ... After the building we were in was hit, we were all buried under the rubble. Al-Qassam soldiers rescued my life and Itai. Later, we were not able to save Yossi. After many days, two nights, Itai and I were relocated to another place. While being transported, Itai was hit by an IDF airstrike; he did not survive."
Argamani goes on to say that she has shrapnel in her head and pleads for the Israeli government to bring her and other hostages home.
The video also apparently showed the bodies of Svirsky and Sharabi, according to Reuters. Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari told the outlet that at least the claim that Svirsky died in an Israeli strike was a "Hamas lie."
"The building in which they were held was not a target and it was not attacked by our forces," Hagari said, adding that "we don't attack a place if we know there may be hostages inside" but that the military had attacked areas nearby.
This is not the first time Hamas has released a hostage video as propaganda. An October video showed three women hostages, one of whom, Danielle Aloni, accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of failing to protect Israelis from the attacks and bring home those in captivity. One woman who sat silently beside Aloni, Rimon Kirsht, stared down a Hamas terrorist when the group released her as part of a days-long truce in late November.
In the first hostage video the terror group released in mid-October, Mia Schem, who was wounded during her kidnapping and also freed during the truce, said that her captors were caring for her. She later revealed in an interview when she returned home that she made the claim under duress and revealed the horrors she witnessed in captivity.