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The family of Israeli soldiers, which Hamas took hostage, released new footage of the moment he was pulled out of his tank during the attack on October 7th and captured by Palestinian extremists.
The video shows the angrest of Matan, a soldier surrounded by dozens of men on top of the turret of an Israeli tank. The man with a blurred face in the video first lowers angrest, first lowers his head, then drops out of the tank to the arms of a Palestinian extremists who barely catch him.
It is unclear whether Angrest is aware of it in the video. His body is limp and falls when he is thrown out of the side of the tank.
One man can be seen kicking an angrest before he is thrown out of the tank. Another man below appears to be slapping Angrest as he falls to the floor.
In an interview, Angrest’s mother said she decided to release the video because she was afraid that her son would be “lacked down” and wanted the public to know that he was in a serious situation.
“As Trump’s commitment to American citizens, he does not feel the government’s commitment to Matan as an Israeli soldier. “If the government still wants the soldiers to serve her, she needs to worry about the soldiers and bring them home like other citizens.”
Her husband saw the video a few months ago, but she only saw it for the first time on a Sunday night.
“For me as a mother, that’s the hardest thing to see. It’s the hardest thing to know about my son. Every mother knows her child from the first cry of the baby. “It’s the most difficult situation for me as a mother.”
This is the latest attempt by Angrest’s family to raise an alarm about the worsening condition of the prisoners. They say he suffers from chronic asthma, suffers from untreated burns and is infected in captivity.
Keith Siegel, an American-Israeli hostage who was released in February, told CNN last month that he was extremely concerned about Angrest’s physical and mental health. The two were held together for over two months.
According to the video watermark, the video released on Monday appears to have been recovered by Israeli forces from the belongings of Palestinian extremists.
Angrest said her family didn’t release the video for months at the urging of the Israeli military, but she feels she has no choice as the Israeli government is seeking yet another partial deal in which about half of the remaining hostages are released.
“We were quiet about it for a year and a half, but we realised that our quietness was very comfortable leaving Matan behind,” she said.
According to the Israeli government, Angrast is still one of the 55 hostages Hamas still holds, one of 20 people thought to be still alive.
As an Israeli male soldier, Angrest is thought to be at the bottom of the list of hostages to be released. It is considered a valuable hostage where Hamas and the Israeli government must pay a sudden price. Angrast of Annat believes his son’s concerns about his condition should be taken into consideration, and like many hostage families, he is seeking all hostages and release at the end of the war.
Negotiations for ceasefires and hostage trade between Israel and Hamas have been scattered over the past few weeks, with no agreement. The framework proposed by the US will see about half of the lives and dead hostages released in exchange for a temporary 60-day ceasefire. Hamas insisted a strong assurance from the United States that negotiations to end the war would continue and combat would not resume.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
