New video of an Israeli hostage, terrestrial military operation in Gaza, disappeared paramedics … News from the conflict to the Middle East this Saturday, March 29-Liberation

The Palestinian movement broadcast this Saturday a new video of an Israeli hostage in Gaza, which calls on its government to guarantee its release. This is the second recording of this type sent by Hamas in less than a week. The hostage families forum, the main militant organization for the liberation of the Israelis selected in the Gaza Strip, identified man as being Elkana Bohbot, removed during the Nova music festival in southern Israel during The attack on Hamas of October 7, 2023.

The video, of more than three minutes, whose date and place of recording could not be checked, shows the hostage speaking in Hebrew and demanding to be released. A video broadcast on Monday showed the show alongside another hostage, Yossef-Haïm Ohana, also removed during the attack on the Nova festival. In this video, the two men evoke the dangers they have faced since the resumption of Israeli air strikes on Gaza.

The Israeli army said on Saturday that it had started a « Floor activity » in the district of Jneina, at Rafahin order to extend what it describes as the safety area in the south of the Gaza strip. Thursday, at the end of the afternoon, the Israeli army announced to extend its « terrestrial operation » in the Palestinian enclave. Since March 18, Israel has resumed its bombings and its land operations in Hamas, in order, according to the Hebrew State, to increase pressure on the Palestinian militant group Hamas for it to release the hostages.

The Hamas Government Ministry of Health for the Gaza Strip also said this Saturday that 921 people had been killed in the Palestinian territory since the resumption of Israeli bombings on March 18, including 25 in the last 24 hours.

The Palestinian Red Red Crescent said this Saturday that it was still without news from a team of nine rescuers since Israeli soldiers shot ambulances last Sunday in Gaza, accusing the Israeli authorities of having prevented an operation to find them. The Israeli army acknowledged on Saturday that it had shot ambulances in the Gaza Strip after judging these vehicles « suspect». For its part, Hamas denounced « A war crime » Having had a life to life.