Hamas launches a psychological attack against Israel by publishing a video of three hostages on the 100th day of October 7

Hamas launched a new attack against Israel. A psychological warfare movement, without the need for missiles or bullets, but straight to the hearts and minds of Israelis. Coinciding with the 100 days of war, the terrorists made public a video of three of the 130 hostages held by terrorists in Gaza since October 7, among them the young woman Noa Argamani, one of the most recognizable faces of the massacre by the images of her sobbing while being forced to ride a motorcycle with her captors. The video, which does not contain any indication of when it was recorded, shows the hostages asking for their release and ends with a message from the terrorists announcing that "tomorrow (Monday, January 15) we will inform you of their fate."

A video without temporal or spatial references to put pressure on Israel

The video, which has no indication of when or where it was filmed, shows the edited footage of Argamani, Yossi Sharabi and Itay Svirsky merged into a single clip. In it, the three identify themselves and demand that Netanyahu's Executive return them home. This isn't the first instance of Hamas employing such tactics to sway Israeli public opinion. They have previously accused the Israeli government of mistreatment towards their detained compatriots, as a method of manipulation.

In fact, a spokesman for the terrorist group pointed out, in a television statement prior to the publication of the hostages' statement, that Hamas has lost track of many of those kidnapped and accused the Israeli offensive of having killed them and put them at risk.

A claim that the forensic experts who performed the autopsies on the deceased hostages have already denied, reporting that the bodies showed wounds "incompatible with Hamas' version that they had died in air strikes," according to the Times of Israel.