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Alex is survived by his woman and 2 young children, 1 was calved portion helium was being held hostage successful Gaza
- Ellie Doughty, Foreign News Reporter
- Published: 11:34, 14 Sep 2024
- Updated: 11:35, 14 Sep 2024
THE FAMILY of an Israeli hostage murdered by Hamas person released a video of him successful Gaza which sheds airy connected the horrors of his twelvemonth successful captivity.
Alex Lobanov, 32, was the caput barman astatine the Nova Music Festival ravaged by Hamas connected October 7 2023.
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He was found dormant successful a passageway wrong the Gaza Strip alongside 5 different hostages by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) connected August 31.
After they were found, Hamas released a bid of taunting videos showing the hostages successful captivity.
Addressing their loved ones astatine location and Prime Minister Netanyahu, they criticised Israel's handling of the warfare and deficiency of a hostage-ceasefire deal.
Several freed hostages person said Hamas coerces them into making specified videos and Israeli media usually lone releases them if the household requests they do.
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Alex's household authorised parts of the video to beryllium published online via The Hostages Families Forum, who said it reveals "Hamas' cruelty".
In the footage Alex says they are being held successful "very hard circumstances".
"There are nary basal supplies, similar water, food, energy and hygiene," helium says.
"There are bombings each the time, we are acrophobic and person trouble sleeping."
Speaking straight to Netanyahu and his government, Lobanov says they person failed "in each efforts to merchandise america alive".
He said: "You are conscionable trying to termination america for not making a deal.
"I would conscionable similar to punctual you that successful [the 2011 woody to merchandise IDF worker Gilad Shalit], implicit 1,000 terrorists were released."
Addressing his chap citizens helium said: "Go retired to the streets, protest, bash everything truthful that we volition travel retired of present alive."
"To my family, Michal, Tom, Mom, Dad — Remain beardown and united, I americium doing well, miss you and emotion you."
Alex's woman Michal gave commencement to their 2nd kid portion helium was successful captivity.
The Hostages Families Forum, who person been organising country-wide protests against the government's handling of the war, said the video emphasises the urgent request to bring location the remaining hostages.
A connection from the radical read: "This horrific video further demonstrates Hamas’s cruelty.
"Alex and 5 different hostages managed to past successful nightmarish conditions for implicit 10 months earlier being brutally executed.
"Recently released footage from their underground situation offered lone a glimpse of the unimaginable horrors they endured successful captivity.
"Time is moving retired for the remaining 101 hostages. A woody indispensable beryllium struck instantly to prevention them."
Hamas has antecedently released footage of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi and Carmel Gat successful captivity.
The IDF this week revealed footage from wrong the passageway wherever the six hostages were kept.
Footage shows Daniel Hagari entering the sprawling passageway wherever the radical was held captive for astir a twelvemonth successful horrific conditions.
The hostages were found dormant successful Rafah connected August 31.
An autopsy carried retired by the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute recovered they had been shot aggregate times from adjacent range.
They were murdered lone immoderate 48 to 72 hours earlier the examination, meaning they were killed betwixt Thursday and Friday greeting earlier the service reached them connected Saturday afternoon.
Some 101 hostages stay successful Gaza and Israeli officials estimation a 3rd of them are already dead.
The find of the six hostages has sparked a renewed question of fury crossed Israel with hundreds of thousands protesting for a hostage merchandise woody and ceasefire.
A full of 251 hostages were abducted to Gaza on October 7 aft Hamas launched a bloody battle connected Israel which killed astir 1,200 people, astir of whom were civilians.
Over 40,000 Palestinians person been killed since during the warfare successful Gaza, the Strip's Hamas-linked wellness ministry claims.
Who were the six hostages killed successful Gaza?
BY Ellie Doughty, Foreign News Reporter
THE SIX hostages were aged betwixt 23 and 40 and were kept successful Gaza for astir a twelvemonth aft their kidnap connected October 7 2023.
They were: Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi and Ori Danino.
Ori, 25; Eden, 24; Almog, 27; and Alexander, 33, were each taken from the tragic Supernova euphony festival.
The sixth, Carmel, 40, was abducted from the adjacent farming assemblage of Be'eri.
Following quality of the deaths, Israel's President Isaac Herzog apologised to the families of the victims for "failing to bring them location safely".
The household of Ms Yerushalmi said: "We stock with large sorrow that our beloved Eden was murdered successful Hamas captivity."
Israel's service said the bodies were recovered from a passageway successful the confederate Gaza metropolis of Rafah, astir a kilometre from wherever different hostage, Qaid Farhan Alkadi, 52, was rescued live a week before.
US-citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, became 1 of the astir well-known captives held by Hamas arsenic his parents met with satellite leaders and pressed for his release.
They spoke retired astir the horrors of the ongoing warfare astatine the Democratic National Convention successful August.
The autochthonal of Berkeley, California, mislaid portion of his near limb to a grenade successful the attack.
US President Joe Biden said helium was "devastated and outraged" by the quality of their deaths.
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