NEW YORK (WABC) — The Israeli Hostage Center released a video Wednesday showing five girls being taken hostage by Hamas on October 7.
Right now authorities believe all five are still alive and in Hamas custody after they were taken from the Nahal Oz base.
Family members of the hostages, all 18 or 19 years old, wanted the video shown to the public as part of a pressure campaign on the Israeli government to bring the hostages home.
In the video, Hamas terrorists shout at the young women and threaten to shoot them. At one point a terrorist says, “here are the girls we can get pregnant. These are the Zionists.”
Ofir Akunis, the Consul General of Israel in New York, says he’s concerned that much of the world has forgotten that there are still 130 Israelis being held hostage.
And yet on Wednesday, three European countries recognized Palestine as an independent state. Norway, …