Hamas has posted a video showing a 19-year-old Israeli prisoner, as indirect talks between the group and Israel on a ceasefire and hostage release deal resume in Qatar.
The footage shows Larry Albaugh calling on the Israeli government to reach an agreement.
In October 2023, she was taken hostage along with six other female conscripts at the Nihal Oz military base on the Gaza border during a Hamas attack. Five of them are still in prison.
The announcement of new talks came as Israel stepped up attacks on Gaza, which Palestinian aid workers say killed more than 30 people in Saturday’s bombardment.
An attack on a house in Gaza City on Saturday killed 11 people, including seven children, according to the Hamas-run Civil Defense Agency.
In the photos, residents can be seen searching the rubble for survivors and bodies wrapped in shrouds.
“A huge explosion woke us up. Everything was shaking,” neighbor Ahmed Musa told AFP.
“It was a home for children, women. There was no one wanted or threatened.”
The Israeli military said on Sunday it had hit more than 100 “terrorist targets” in the Gaza Strip over the past two days and “killed dozens of Hamas terrorists”.
Reacting to the video showing their daughter, Larry Albaugh’s parents said it broke their hearts and appealed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “make decisions like your own.” I’m a child.”
The headquarters of the Hostage and Missing Families Forum, which represents the families of the hostages, said that Larry’s life was lost. The sign is “strong and irrefutable evidence of the urgency to bring home all the hostages.”
In a call to Lira Albagh’s parents, Israeli President Isaac Herzog said his country’s delegation would remain at the negotiating table until all hostages were returned.
Israeli officials have previously described the release of such videos by Hamas as psychological warfare.
A senior Palestinian official told the BBC last month. Negotiations to reach an agreement on a ceasefire and the release of hostages were largely completed.But key issues still need to be addressed.
On Sunday, the Israeli military said it had neutralized a missile fired from Yemen, the latest in a series of attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi movement.
The Houthis said they fired a “hypersonic ballistic missile” at a power station near the Israeli city of Haifa. The group says it began targeting shipping in the Red Sea and firing missiles at Israel in response to Israeli military operations in Gaza.
The current war began when Hamas attacked southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing approximately 1,200 people and taking 251 others hostage.
More than 45,700 people have been killed in Israel’s military campaign to destroy Hamas, according to the Ministry of Health in the Hamas-controlled area.
Gaza’s health ministry said on Saturday that all three public hospitals in northern Gaza were completely closed and “destroyed” by the Israeli army.
The Israeli army has blockaded parts of northern Gaza since October, with the United Nations saying the area is under “almost total siege” as Israeli forces severely block aid deliveries to the area where a An estimated 10,000 to 15,000 people live there. .
Late last month, the Israeli military forced patients and medical staff to leave Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, accusing the facility of being a “bastion for Hamas terrorists” and Arrest of hospital director Hossam Abu Safia.
It said it had facilitated the transfer of some medical staff and patients to a nearby Indonesian hospital. But Gaza’s health ministry said on Saturday that the hospital, along with Beit Hanun hospital, had been taken out of service.
The head of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, once again called for an end to attacks on hospitals and health professionals. He said the people of Gaza need access to health care.
Israel says its forces operate in accordance with international law and do not target civilians.
On Saturday, the Biden administration said it was. are planning an $8bn (£6.4bn) arms sale to Israel.. The arms shipment, which requires approval by US House and Senate committees, includes missiles, shells and other munitions.
The move comes just a fortnight before Biden steps down and Donald Trump takes office as president.
Washington has consistently rejected calls to suspend military support to Israel because of the number of civilians killed in Gaza.