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Hamas released more sick video Monday featuring the faces of three Israeli hostages — and asking viewers for their opinions on whether the terror group should kill them.
The twisted “game” surfaced several hours before the Palestinian terror group aired footage that forced one of the captives, Noa Argamani, to reveal the other two hostages had been killed
In its first footage Monday, Hamas asked viewers, “What do you think?” when it came to whether the three hostages should live or die.
The slickly produced 34-second clip opened with a question mark dangling against a blood-red background, then photos of the three hostages.
It then offered a trio of options for the innocent victims written in Arabic, Hebrew and English: all three are killed; “some are killed, some are injured,” or all three are “still alive.
“Tonight we will inform you of their fate,” another caption read as menacing music played.
The terror group made good on its promise to reveal the captives’ fate.
In its second chilling propaganda video Monday, the terror group released footage that appeared to show the lifeless bodies of the two male hostages, Yossi Sharabi, 53, and Itai Svirsky, 38 — with Argamani, 26, being forced to say into the camera that they were killed by “our own IDF strikes.”
Armani, a university student, became the face of the hostage crisis when video showed her screaming, “Don’t kill me!” as she was driven off from the Nova music fest on the back of a motorcycle during Hamas’ slaughter in Israel on Oct. 7.
The latest terror video, which clocked in at more than 2 minutes, 33 seconds, included Argamani saying she and her fellow captives were inside a building that was bombed by an Israeli F-16 jet, killing Sharabi.
She claimed “Al Qassam soldiers” saved her and Svirsky but that the 38-year-old hostage was killed two nights later in another IDF attack.
“They died because of our own IDF airstrikes,” Argamani said of the men. “Stop this madness and bring us home to our families. While we are still alive, bring us home.”
IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari later Monday denied that an Israeli airstrike killed the two men, characterizing the propaganda video as a “lie” by Hamas, the Times of Israel reported.
“Itay was not killed by our forces. This is a Hamas lie,” Hagari said. “The building where they were held was not a target and was not attacked by our forces.”
But Hagari did say the IDF carried out a strike near the area where the hostages were being held, acknowledging that it may have put their lives in danger.
Hamas had kicked off its sick guessing game about the trio Sunday with an undated video that showed them for the first time since they were kidnapped Oct. 7.
The 37-second clip included Argamani, Sharabi and Svirsky pleading with Israel to stop its offensive against Gaza — ending with the ominous message: “Tomorrow we will inform you of their fate.”
In response to the videos, Israel’s defense minister accused Hamas of carrying out “psychological abuse.”
The videos came as talks to secure the release of all of the more than 130 Israeli hostages inch forward, sources told the Guardian.
At the very least, “both [Hamas and Israel] have shown willingness to allow the delivery of the medicine” to Gazans and to the hostages, a diplomat said. “Discussions are ongoing with both sides and with international NGOs …. to allow the delivery of medications to Israeli hostages and Palestinian civilians in Gaza as soon as possible.”
Israel and Hamas have put forward proposals for an overall agreement on the hostages’ release, but wide gaps between the two sides remain, sources said.
The talks resumed last week, after Hamas walked away from the negotiation table for several days in the wake of the assassination of high-ranking Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut.
Hamas has refused to release the hostages unless Israeli forces stop their ground offensive, which has turned much of Gaza into a wasteland — while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Israelis over the weekend that the war would continue until “total victory.”
Although no breakthrough has been reached on the release of the captives, a deal recently brokered by Qatar has cleared the way for the delivery of medications, including prescription drugs, to the hostages, officials said.
The medicine will be purchased by Qatari go-betweens and shipped to Egypt, where it will be handed to Gaza health officials to be delivered to more than 40 hostages in the Gaza Strip, according to a CNN report.
Qatar is said to be waiting for the arrival of some of the medical supplies from an unnamed country.
The list of medications was compiled by the hostages’ own doctors. They include “life-saving” drugs, such as blood pressure and heart medications, as well as asthma inhalers.
Under the agreement, Israel would allow more humanitarian aid to flow into Gaza, including medicine.
The hostages’ relatives last week demanded visual proof that their loved ones, among them people with chronic conditions, receive the medications.
“The shocking images of the hostages in captivity require increasing pressure on the countries involved in the negotiations to lead to an immediate release, and not stop at the transfer of medicines,” they said in a statement.
Netanyahu’s office Friday confirmed the agreement hammered out with the help of Qatari mediators.
Of some 240 Israelis initially seized by Hamas terrorists, around half were released as part of a November cease-fire. Israel says between 132 and 136 remain in Gaza.
With Post wires
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