Hamas Video of hostage Nadav Popplewell before died in Israeli airstrike
The Palestinian group Hamas said on Saturday that another one of the hostages abducted during its Oct. 7 attack on Israel has died.
Hamas released a video saying that Nadav Popplewell, who was taken hostage from the southern Israeli community of Kibbutz Nirim, died after being wounded in an Israeli strike in Gaza.The Israeli military did not offer immediate comment on the latest video.
It has referred to previous videos of hostages released by Hamas as psychological terror. It has also denied some of the previous accusations by Hamas that hostages were killed by Israeli fire.
Earlier on Saturday Hamas released an undated video of the 51-year-old captive in front of a white wall, with a bruise on his right eye, and speaking his name.
Hours later, in the second video, it said Popplewell died of wounds sustained a month ago in an Israeli airstrike.
Sadistic, evil bastards!
Hamas just release new propaganda video, with 51-year-old hostage Nadav Popplewell, tortured and beaten by his Hamas captors – which by the way is also a war crime, if anyone still keeping track (@ICRC – anyone home?). pic.twitter.com/f8hPKo2nXY
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Hamas said Popplewell, whom it said was also a British citizen, was being detained with a woman hostage when the place they were being held was targeted by an Israeli missile.
“He died because he didn’t receive intensive medical care at medical facilities because of the enemy’s destruction of hospitals in Gaza,” the Hamas armed wing spokesman, Abu Ubaida, said in a statement.
