Hamas released a video showing a 19-year-old Israeli prisoner, with the resumption of indirect talks between the movement and Israel regarding a ceasefire and hostage release agreement in Qatar.
The footage shows Liri Albag calling on the Israeli government to reach an agreement.
She was taken hostage with six other female soldiers at the Nahal Oz military base on the Gaza border during a Hamas attack in October 2023. Five of them remain in captivity.
The announcement of the resumption of talks came as Israel intensified its attacks on Gaza, with Palestinian rescuers saying more than 30 people were killed in the bombing on Saturday.
An air strike on a house in Gaza City on Saturday killed 11 people, including seven children, according to the Hamas-run Civil Defense Agency.
Pictures showed residents searching the rubble for survivors and the bodies of the dead wrapped in shrouds.
“We were awakened by a huge explosion. Everything was shaking,” his neighbor Ahmed Musa told AFP.
“It was home to children and women. There was no one there who was wanted or posed a threat.”
The Israeli military said on Sunday that it had struck more than 100 “terrorist targets” in the Gaza Strip over the past two days and “eliminated dozens of Hamas terrorists.”
In response to the video clip featuring their daughter, Liri Albag's parents said the video tore their hearts apart and appealed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “make decisions as if your children were there.”
The headquarters of the Forum of Hostages and Families of Missing Persons, which represents families of hostages, said the sign of life that came from Leary was “harsh and undeniable evidence of the urgent need to return all hostages to their homeland.”
In a phone call to Lira Albag's parents, Israeli President Isaac Herzog said that his country's delegation would remain at the negotiating table until all the hostages were returned to their homeland.
Israeli officials had previously described Hamas's publication of these clips as psychological warfare.
Last month, a senior Palestinian official told the BBC that Talks to reach a ceasefire and hostage release agreement were mostly completedbut major issues still need to be overcome.
The Israeli military said on Sunday that it had intercepted a missile fired from Yemen, the latest in a series of similar attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi movement.
The Houthis said they fired a “hypersonic ballistic missile” toward a power station near the Israeli city of Haifa. The group says it has begun targeting ships in the Red Sea and firing missiles at Israel in response to Israeli military operations in Gaza.
The current war began when Hamas attacked southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 others hostage.
The Israeli military campaign to destroy Hamas has killed more than 45,700 people, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry in the Strip.
The Gaza Ministry of Health said on Saturday that the three government hospitals in northern Gaza were completely out of service and “destroyed” by Israeli forces.
The Israeli army has imposed a siege on parts of northern Gaza since October, with the UN saying the area was under an “almost complete siege” as Israeli forces severely restrict the arrival of aid shipments to an area still inhabited by an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 people. . .
Late last month, the Israeli army forced patients and medical staff to leave Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, claiming that the facility was a “Hamas terrorist stronghold.” Hospital director Hossam Abu Safiya was arrested.
It said it facilitated the transfer of some medical staff and patients to the nearby Indonesian hospital. But the Gaza Ministry of Health said on Saturday that this hospital was also out of service, along with Beit Hanoun Hospital.
WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus once again called for an end to attacks on hospitals and health workers. “People in Gaza need access to health care,” he said.
Israel says its forces operate in accordance with international law and do not target civilians.
The Biden administration said Saturday that was the case It plans to sell weapons worth $8bn (£6.4bn) to Israel. The arms shipment, which needs approval by US House and Senate committees, includes missiles, missiles and other munitions.
The move comes just over two weeks before Biden leaves office and Donald Trump takes office as president.
Washington has consistently rejected calls to suspend military support for Israel due to the number of civilians killed in Gaza.
