The footage showed hostages being brought into Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. (File)
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Israel’s military released security camera footage Sunday it said showed hostages being brought into Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City after being kidnapped in the October 7 Hamas attacks on southern Israel.
In one of the clips a man is brought in on a gurney by several individuals, at least four of them armed, while in another someone struggles to resist while being forcibly dragged into a building resembing a hospital.
AFP was not immediately able to verify the footage.
« Here you can see Hamas taking a hostage inside … they’re taking him inside the hospital, » military spokesman Daniel Hagari told a briefing, adding the male hostages were from Nepal and Thailand.
« We have not yet located both of these hostages, » he added. « We do not know where they are. »
The footage appears to be time-stamped October 7, 2023, the day Hamas fighters stormed into southern Israel killing around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping some 240 others, according to Israeli authorities.
« These findings prove that the Hamas terrorist organisation used the Shifa hospital complex on the day of the massacre as terrorist infrastructure, » the military and intelligence services said in a statement.
Since October 7 Israel has pounded Gaza relentlessly from the air, land and sea with officials in the Hamas-run territory saying at least 13,000 people have been killed, also mostly civilians.
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