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Palestinian Islamist group Hamas aired a new video on Monday showing what it said were the bodies of two Israeli hostages, and Israel’s military said that while it was examining the footage, there was serious concern regarding the hostages’ fate.
In the video, 26-year-old university student Noa Argamani, seemingly reading a script in front of a blank white wall, said that fellow hostages Itai Svirsky and Yossi Sharabi had been killed.
The video ends with pictures purporting to be the dead bodies of both men.
Aragamani said in the video that they were killed by Israeli strikes, while she was injured.

Military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari identified hostage Itai Svirsky as one of the men, but did not give the name or other details about the second as per the family’s request.
“Itai was not shot by our forces. That is a Hamas lie. The building in which they were held was not a target and it was not attacked by our forces,” Hagari told reporters.
Israeli military says it found traces of hostages in Gaza tunnel
“We don’t attack a place if we know there may be hostages inside,” he said, adding that areas nearby had been targeted.
The military, he said, was examining the photos Hamas posted along with other information it had.
Argamani became a prominent face among the more than 200 hostages taken during Hamas’ October 7 massacre across southern Israel that sparked the war in Gaza.
She attended the music festival that became a killing field and was filmed by her captors being taken into Gaza on the back of a motorcycle, screaming for her life and reaching for her boyfriend who was being pushed on foot beside her.
“Stop this madness, return us to our families while we are still alive. Return us home,” she said in Monday’s video.
The woman’s Chinese mother is suffering from terminal cancer and has pleaded to see her daughter again before her death.
Sharabi, 53, was taken hostage from Kibbutz Be’eri, one of the hardest hit communities in the Hamas assault, along with his brother. His wife managed to save their daughters while his brother’s family was killed.




Svirsky, 35, was also taken from Kibbutz Be’eri after being shot and wounded and witnessing the killing of his mother. His father was also killed.
A day earlier Hamas aired a video showing the three hostages and promising to disclose their fate. Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said on Monday that Hamas carries out “psychological abuse” with its handling of the hostages.
Forensic officials in Israel have said that autopsies of slain hostages who had been recovered found causes of death inconsistent with Hamas’ account they had died in air strikes.
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But Israel has also made clear it is aware of the risks to hostages from its offensive, and is taking precautions.
Around half of some 240 people seized by Hamas on October 7 were released in a November truce. Israel says 132 remain in Gaza and that 25 of them have died in captivity.
The hostage crisis has riveted Israelis reeling from the worst attack in their history. Some hostages’ relatives have called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to enter another truce or even call off the war.
Gallant said that without keeping up military pressure, Hamas would have no reason to release more hostages.


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Video purportedly showed bodies of Yossi Sharabi and Itai Svirsky, who appeared in initial video on Sunday
Speaking under duress, a third Israeli hostage Noa Argamani revealed that the two men had been killed


A new video released by the Palestinian militant group purportedly showed the bodies of Yossi Sharabi, 53, and Itai Svirsky, 38, who had appeared in previous footage on Sunday.
