By Josef Federman and Jack Jeffery
Jerusalem: Hamas has released a video showing an Israeli-American hostage who was among scores of people abducted by the militant group in the October 7 attack that ignited the war in Gaza.
The video shown on Thursday (AEST) was the first sign of life of Hersh Goldberg-Polin since he was kidnapped from southern Israel, and it ignited new protests in Jerusalem calling on the Israeli government to do more to secure the captives’ release.
In the video, Goldberg-Polin accused the Israeli government of abandoning the people being held hostage by Hamas.
He also claimed that some 70 captives had been killed by Israel’s bombing campaign.
Goldberg-Polin was clearly speaking under duress, and the claim could not be …