One of the two Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip declared dead today by the Palestinian Hamas movement is a Portuguese national, according to information provided by the Israeli Embassy in Lisbon.
He was Yossi Sharabi, 53, who appeared in a propaganda video released on Sunday by Hamas on the Telegram network, calling on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the war in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli Embassy in Portugal told Lusa today that Sharabi has Portuguese nationality and that his wife, Nari, was in Lisbon last month to ask the government to help in efforts to get him released.
“Tomorrow [today] her fate will be revealed,” Hamas said in the video, according to the translation sent to Lusa by the Israeli Embassy, which published a photograph of Nari Sharabi with relatives of other hostages at a meeting a month ago with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, João Gomes Cravinho.
In a new video released today by Hamas, it is revealed that Yossi Sharabi and Itay Svirsky, 38, died in captivity.
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Download File: https://www.portugalpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/document_5850348474855330996.mp4?_=1The footage shows a young woman, also a hostage, visibly under pressure, saying that two men she was being held with are dead.
In a statement quoted by Agence France-Presse (AFP), Hamas’ military arm claimed that the hostages “were killed in Zionist bombardments in Gaza”.
No indication of when the images were taken is given in the videos, nor is there any official confirmation of the death of the two hostages.
Lusa contacted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but has not yet received a reply.