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Shot Dead at 24: Family Releases Video of Daughter Executed by Hamas

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Shot Dead at 24: Family Releases Video of Daughter Executed by Hamas

The family of murdered Israeli hostage Eden Yerushalmi has given permission for the publication of a video clip in which their daughter was filmed while being held by Hamas terrorists.

“I love you and miss you,” she tells her family in the clip, as reported by Ynetnews.

The 24-year-old from Tel Aviv was tending bar at the Nova music festival near Gaza when the massacre began on October 7. She hid among the bodies of her friends and then under bushes, but was captured and taken to Gaza.

She spoke to her sisters on the phone until she told them she had been taken. “She wasn’t hurt when they took her, she didn’t have a scratch,” they said.

Eden was found in a Hamas tunnel on Thursday with a gunshot wound to the back of his head. He was returned to Israel along with five other hostages, all of whom had been executed.

“We prayed. We wanted to believe that this wasn’t true,” her mother said at her funeral on Sunday. “This is not how I imagined your end. I wanted you back alive. I’m sorry we couldn’t save you.”

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Hamas threatens to release latest reports of hostages killed

Hamas has threatened to release a video showing the “last messages” of the six slain hostages recorded before their deaths last week, the Jewish Chronicle reports.

A short teaser posted by the terror group on social media app Telegram on Monday showed each of the six hostages – Eden Yerushalmi, 24, Ori Danino, 25, Almog Sarusi, 27, Alexander Lobanov, 32, Carmel Gat, 40, and Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23 – introducing themselves to the camera before a phrase in Hebrew, English and Arabic appeared on the screen: “Hours and we will show their last messages.”

It is not known when the videos were recorded, but the The video was shared around the time of the hostages’ funerals, which took place on Sunday and Monday.

Hamas has released similar propaganda videos of hostages in what Israel calls psychological warfare. In April, Hamas shared a video of Goldberg-Polin, proving that the American-Israeli was still alive 200 days after he was kidnapped from the Nova music festival on October 7.

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Clockwise from top left: Almog Sarusi, 25, Eden Yerushalmi, 24, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, Ori Danino, 25, Carmel Gat, 40, and Alex Lubnov, 32. Photo: Hostage and Missing Families Forum. Photo by JNS

Hamas says hostages operating under new instructions

Hamas’ armed wing said on Monday that the group has been operating under new instructions since June on how to handle hostages as Israeli forces approach their locations in Gaza, Reuters reported.

The announcement comes days after Israeli forces recovered the bodies of six hostages from a tunnel in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, saying they were killed by their captors as Israeli forces closed in.

Abu Ubaida, spokesman for Hamas’ al-Qassam Brigades, did not provide details about the instructions but said his group held Israel responsible for the deaths of the hostages.

The new instructions, he said, were given to guards after an Israeli rescue operation in June, when Israeli forces freed four hostages in a raid that killed dozens of Palestinians.

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