A video of two Israeli hostages being held in Gaza of October 7th

Hamas é group declared terrorist organisations by the United States and the European Union published a video Saturday on two Israeli hostages, which are being held at the Gaza Strip on October 7th.

The video is shot like past videos of hostages that had made the radical Palestinian group public. These videos have been condemned by Israel as “psychological terrorism”.

The two men, identified as Keith Siegel 64, and Omri Miran 47, speak separately in this video. They expressed love to their family and sought freedom.

Mirani had been kidnapped from his home in the Nahal Oz community in front of his wife and two young children during Hamas' deadly attack in southern Israel on 7 October, which sparked the war in Gaza.

Siegel, who has American and Israeli citizenship, was abducted along with his wife from another border town. His wife was later released during a brief ceasefire in November.

Their footage was released Saturday during the Israeli Easter holiday.

For a moment, Siegel bursts into tears, remembering the celebration of this festival with his family last year and hoping to join them.

About 250 Israelites and foreigners were kidnapped south of Israel by Hamas and sent to the Gaza Strip.

During the November agreement Hamas freed 105 hostages -- most of them women and children -- in exchange for a week-long ceasefire and the release of 250 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons.

It is believed that 133 hostages are still being held in Gaza, of which 30 are thought to have died.

The indirect talks between Israel and Hamas to ensure the release of remaining hostages are continuing for weeks now.

Hamas has dismissed the previous proposal for a six-week ceasefire in exchange for the release of 40 hostages.

This group says the agreement should include permanent ceasefire, complete withdrawal of the Israeli army from Gaza and the return of the displaced to their homes.

But Israel insists that it will continue military attacks until it defeats Hamas and that it will continue its military presence in Gaza even after the war.

Israel's Gaza War against Hamas began after its members killed about 1,200 people, mainly civilians, and kidnapped some 250 others during that attack in southern Israel.

More than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed, of whom two-thirds of children and women, as a result of the Israeli war in Gaza since then, according to Palestinian health officials. /rel