Nadav Popplewell was kidnapped on October 7 by Hamas Photo: Ayelet Swaticki
Hamas said on Saturday that a British-Israeli hostage had died in the Gaza Strip , shortly after the release of a video that appeared to show him alive.
On Saturday morning, Hamas' armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, released a brief 11-second clip showing 51 -year-old Nadav Popplewell. confirming his name and his home in Kibbutz Nirim in southern Israel.
Mr Popplewell was born in Wakefield in Yorkshire, but has lived in Israel for at least two decades.
It is unclear when the video was taken and what condition he was in. It shows that he has a bruise on his right eye.
Overlaid on the footage is text in Arabic and Hebrew that reads: “Time is running out. Your government is lying.”
The Telegraph is not showing the video or images from it because it was filmed under duress.
Popplewell 'did not receive intensive medical care'
This was originally interpreted as the first sign of life for a 51-year-old man. -old, who was kidnapped by a terrorist group on October 7 along with his mother, who was later released.
But the group later said in a statement that he had died from wounds he suffered in an Israeli airstrike more than a month ago.
Mr Popplewell was being held with a female hostage when the place where they were being held was hit Israeli rocket fire, Hamas said in a statement.
“He died because he did not receive intensive medical care at a medical facility.” facilities due to the enemy's destruction of hospitals in the Gaza Strip,” said spokesman Abu Ubaidah.
The Israeli military had no immediate comment on the latest video.
They referred to previous videos. hostages released by Hamas as psychological terror, and also denied some of the terrorist group's previous accusations that the hostages were killed by Israeli fire.
Popplewell captured in a safe room
Mr Popplewell, described as an avid reader and fan of science fiction, is a family man who enjoyed playing bridge with friends on the kibbutz and enjoyed watching TV series, according to the Israeli publication Bring Them Home Now. an organization set up by the families of the hostages.
He was snatched from a safe room in his home along with his mother Hannah Peri, a dual South African citizen. She was later released during the first pause in the ceasefire in November.
Mr Popplewell's older brother, Roy, was killed in the attack.
His sister, Ayelet Swalicki, who campaigned in London after the attacks for her family's release, spoke of how she lost her entire family in the attack. October 7.
This is the third video of a Hamas hostage released in less than a month.
On April 27, the group released a video showing two living people, Keith Siegel and Omri Miran.< /p>
Three days earlier, he broadcast another video showing hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin alive.
In that video, Goldberg-Polin stated that about half of the remaining Israeli hostages were kidnapped Hamas, were killed during the fighting in Gaza.
He claimed that at least 70 of the remaining 128 hostages were killed in Gaza by Israeli bombing, likely repeating a phrase given to him by his captors.
The official Israeli forensic committee put the number at 36.
This came after Joe Biden said there would be a ceasefire “tomorrow” if Hamas released the remaining Israeli hostages.
Speaking at a fundraiser in Seattle, Mr. Biden said “Hamas must” stop fighting in the region.
“Tomorrow there will be a ceasefire if… Hamas releases hostages, women, elderly and wounded,” he said.
“Israel said everything was ready. Hamas, if they wanted to do this, we could put an end to it tomorrow. And the ceasefire will begin tomorrow,” he added.
A U.S. intelligence assessment reviewed by the Wall Street Journal last month concluded that more than half the hostages may well be dead.
p> Some 252 people were abducted into the Gaza Strip on October 7 when Hamas militants attacked southern Israel.
The attack killed more than 1,170 Israelis and foreigners, mostly civilians, according to AFP, based on data . official Israeli figures.
The Israeli military response in Gaza has so far killed at least 34,971 people, most of them women and children, according to the Hamas-controlled territory's health ministry.
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