PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES: Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad Tuesday released a video showing an Israeli hostage alive and being held in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli media identified the captive as Sasha Trupanov, 28, who is seen speaking in Hebrew in the 30-second clip.
The Forum of Hostages and Missing Families campaign identified him as Alexsander (Sasha) Trupanov and called on the Israeli authorities to secure the release of all prisoners held in Gaza.
It was not clear when the footage of him wearing the T-shirt was filmed.
Trupanov, a Russian-Israeli dual citizen, was captured on October 7 from Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his mother, grandmother and girlfriend.
The three women were freed during a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel in late November that led to the release of 105 hostages.
Trupanov’s father was killed in the attack on October 7.
The family in a statement after Trupan’s video was released said that the Israeli government must give a significant mandate to the negotiating team that will be able to lead to an agreement to return all hostages alive for rehabilitation and murdered for burial.
The Israeli government has instructed its negotiating team to continue talks with mediators to secure a deal to release the hostages, but no new round of talks has begun.
The war in Gaza was sparked by a Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7 that left more than 1,170 people dead, mostly civilians. The militants also took 252 hostages, of whom 121 remain in Gaza, including 37 the Israeli army says are dead.
Israel’s retaliatory attack has killed at least 36,096 people in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-ruled territory.
