Hamas releases video showing sign of life from hostage Liri Albag

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Source: ynet

Hamas on Saturday released a video on Saturday showing a sign of life from IDF lookout Liri Albag, who was abducted on October 7, 2023. At her family's request, Ynet isn’t publishing the video, an image from it or the statements made in it at this time.

Albag's family responds to the video following its release, saying: "The video released today tore our hearts to pieces. This is not the same daughter and sister we know. She's not in good condition; her severe mental state is evident," they said. "We saw our heroic Liri surviving and begging for her life. She is only a few dozen kilometers away from us, and for 456 days, we have not been able to bring her home."

They addressed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and decision-makers: "It’s time to make decisions as if your children were there! Liri is alive and must return alive! It’s up to you! You must not miss this current opportunity to bring them back. All of them." They additionally approved publishing several photos from the video itself.

Liri was abducted from the Nahal Oz base during her first Saturday on duty after completing her basic training, alongside four other lookouts: Karina Ariev, Agam Berger, Daniella Gilboa and Naama Levy.


Read more: https://www.ynetnews.com/article/byyvgpl81g

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Sadists

[SunSeeker]

1. I'm shocked any hostages are still alive. She must have endured unimaginable horrors.

[Richard D]

2. No words

[pfitz59]

3. The female lookouts were unarmed

and unable to defend themselves. A black mark on IDF leadership.

[EX500rider]

4. Which is wierd as IDF personnel rarely seem to go unarmed

[Beastly Boy]

5. I see a black mark on the terrorists who abducted her.

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Everything else is irrelevant by comparison, no?

[C0RI0LANUS]

6. Last year an incident on the Egyptian-Israeli border left three IDF soldiers KIA and was under investigation.

Staff Sgt. Ohad Dahan (20), Sgt. Lia Ben Nun (19) and Staff Sgt. Ori Yitzhak Iluz (C), combat soldiers in the Bardelas Battalion, were shot dead on the Egyptian border on 3 Jun 2023 (Photo: IDF)

The Egyptian army said in a statement that an officer in charge of border security chased after suspects involved in alleged drug smuggling. “During the pursuit, he crossed the security barrier and an exchange of fire began, in which three Israeli security personnel were killed,” it said, adding that it wished to convey “sincere condolences” to the families of the victims.

View of Road 12 on the Israeli-Egyptian border, on 15 Oct 2017. Attempts to smuggle drugs over Israel’s tall fence are frequent. (Photo: Yaniv Nadav / Flash90)

The incidents occurred between Mount Sagi and Mount Harif in the Negev desert. The circumstances were under investigation by the military, including how the gunman, an Egyptian policeman, managed to infiltrate Israel from Egypt.


Chief of the IDF’s Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Eliezer Toledano, is seen at the scene of a deadly shooting and clashes on the border with Egypt, 3 Jun 2023. (Photo: IDF)

This incident appears to have been drug-smuggling related and there was no escalation between Jerusalem and Cairo nor any reprisals.

Source:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/two-israelis-hit-by-gunfire-in-incident-on-egyptian-border/

[Richard D]

8. I was going to post the responses of outrage . . .

. . . sympathy, and demands for the release of the hostages from the UN and human rights organizations, but . . . There ain't any.