Palestinian territories:
The Palestinian group Hamas released a video on Wednesday of an Israeli-American man being held hostage in Gaza and seen alive in the footage.
Israeli media identified him as Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival in southern Israel during the October 7 Hamas attack.
“I was going to hang out with my friends, but instead I was fighting for my life with serious injuries all over my body,” he says in the video, the authenticity and timing of which AFP has not been able to independently verify.
The video was posted on Hamas's official Telegram account.
Israel estimates that 129 of the approximately 250 people kidnapped in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack remain in Gaza, including 34 who the military says are dead.
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