The Hostage and Missing Families Forum announced that they would be releasing on Wednesday video footage showing the kidnapping of the field observation female soldiers from the Nahal Oz base on October 7. The footage was taken by body cameras of Hamas terrorists.
At the Nahal Oz base, 15 field observers serving at the base were murdered on that black Saturday. Ori Magidish was rescued by IDF forces after 23 days in captivity, Noa Marciano was killed by Hamas terrorists while in captivity and her body was returned by the IDF for burial in Israel. The IDF has not said how many remain in captivity after 229 days. The parents of the field observers decided to release the video to the media and public Wednesday in order to show the violent, degrading, and humiliating treatment they endured in the brutal kidnapping. In one captured scene, the Hamas captors tell the young recruits, after they had been bound with zip-ties, "You are so beautiful." It is clear that this is met with torment by the look in their eyes.
More than 1,200 Israelis were slaughtered by Hamas terrorists.
More than 300 of them were women.
Some of these women were murdered TWICE.
We will not allow for a THIRD time to take place - through denial and neglect.
We will continue to scream their story. pic.twitter.com/SYQ0akyjiC
— Tal Heinrich (@TalHeinrich) December 4, 2023
The 03:10 minute video has been edited and censored and does not include difficult-to-watch parts involving the many killed at the base and armored vehicle from which the lookouts were kidnapped, as well as many violent scenes.
The forum said in a statement: "Every additional testimony coming from the captives cries out the same sad truth – we must bring them all home. The video is a harsh indictment of the national failure to abandon the captives. There is no greater mission, no more meaningful victory, and no chance to restore hope to Israel without returning everyone – the living for rehabilitation and the murdered for burial. The government of Israel must not waste another moment – it must return to the negotiating table today!"
