Islamic Jihad released a video showing 13-year-old Yagil Yaakov and 77-year-old Hanna Katzir, both from Kibbutz Nir, who were kidnapped in the Gaza Strip on October 7
The armed wing of the Palestinian organization Islamic Jihad in Gaza is preparing to release two Israeli hostages, a seventy year old woman and one teenage boyfor humanitarian and medical reasons, a spokesman for the Al-Quds Brigades said today in a recorded message.
Islamic Jihad released a video today with the two Israeli hostages it is holding in Gaza, 13-year-old Yagil Yaakov and 77-year-old Hanna Katzir from Kibbutz Nir – who are among the nearly 240 hostages held by Hamas since its deadly attack on October 7 – declaring ready to set them free “if the safety conditions are met”.
“We are ready to release them for humanitarian reasons when the security conditions on the ground are met,” said the spokesman for the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, the organization that fighting alongside Hamas against Israel in the Gaza Strip.
