US EditionNews24 | ‘They Managed to Break Rom’: Plea for Return of Gaza Hostages After Islamic Jihad Shows Video
GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE, JUL 31 – The video shows Rom Braslavski pleading for release and reveals signs of starvation and mistreatment after nearly two years in captivity, with 49 hostages still held, Israeli army says.
- On Thursday, Islamic Jihad published a video of Israeli-German hostage Rom Braslavski claiming it was filmed before contact with his captors was lost.
- After his abduction on October 7, Braslavski has remained unseen, and Islamic Jihad claimed last week it lost contact over a week ago, suggesting the footage was filmed earlier.
- In the six-minute video, Braslavski watches an Arabic-language channel reporting on Gaza’s hunger crisis, showing him emaciated with his beard shaved to highlight his weakness.
- Following the video release, Tami, Braslavski's mother, demanded to speak with the Prime Minister, Defense Minister, and IDF Chief of Staff, and the family appealed to U.S. leaders including President Donald Trump.
- Of the 251 people seized on October 7, 49 remain held in Gaza, and a truce from January 19 to March 17 returned 33 hostages, eight dead.
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Israeli Hostage Shown Gaza Starvation Footage, Palestinian Islamic Jihad Releases Video
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group on Thursday posted a video of an Israeli-German hostage - Rom Braslavski, who had been held captive in the Gaza Strip in October 2023, an attack after which war sparked in the territory.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group released a video Thursday of Israeli hostage Roman Braslavsky, who it has been holding captive in the Gaza Strip for nearly two years. The group said the footage was taken days before it lost contact with his captors. Braslavsky's fate is unknown. His family has viewed the video and said he was broken by his captors.
The military wing of Islamic Jihad, the Al-Quds Brigades, has released this Thursday a video of Rom Braslavski, who was kidnapped by Palestinian militias at the Nova music festival during the attacks of 7 October, the second to publish this hostage since last April. In the video released by the Palestinian militia, Braslavski, 21 years old and coming from Jerusalem, seems to be crying. The young man appears emaciated and very pale in the six-min…
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