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3 Israeli female hostages shown alive in Hamas propaganda video

The three Israeli hostages are Daniella Gilboa, Karina Ariev and Doron Steinbrecher.

By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

Hamas released a propaganda video of three female hostages on Friday.

The three Israeli hostages are Daniella Gilboa, Karina Ariev and Doron Steinbrecher appearing in a five-minute video during which the young women tell the Israeli government to immediately secure their release.

Hamas has released several of these videos in what is widely considered as a strategy in psychological warfare and a means to attempt to pressure Israel into making deep concessions in the conflict.

Although Hamas claimed the video was filmed early last week, there is no indication of when it was actually filmed.

Major Israeli outlets refuse to broadcast the videos to avoid allowing Hamas to manipulate the Israeli public.

The last video showing live hostages was released on January 15, and showed Itay Svirsky, Noa Argamani and Yossi Sharabi.

The next day, Israel announced that Svirsky and Sharabi had died in Gaza, with Hamas claiming that they were killed by Israeli airstrikes.

However, the IDF refuted the accusation that it was responsible for the death of the two hostages.

“The building where they were held was not a target and was not attacked by our forces,” Israel Defense Forces spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said.

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One of the three hostages in the most recently released video, Daniella Gilboa (19) texted her family in the morning of October 7th and sent videos to her boyfriend before she was identified by her family in Hamas videos shown later in the day.

Karina Ariev (19) spoke tearfully to her parents moments before she was captured, telling them she loved them and they should carry on with their lives.

Later in the day, Ariev was seen in a video on the back of a jeep with her captors, and her face was bloodied.

Doron Steinbrecher, who lived in Kfar Aza, spoke to her parents from her living quarters she shared with other single women on the kibbutz.

Right before she was kidnapped, she said to her parents, “They’ve arrived. They have me.”