« Hamas continues to use psychological terror and behaves inhumanely, through kidnapping videos and photos, as it has done in the past, » the IDF said.
Hamas has released video footage of Noa Marciano, a 19-year-old reservist in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) who was among the hostages taken by militants to Gaza, which shows her speaking while in captivity before images of her dead body are displayed.
The Al Qassam Brigade, the military wing of Hamas, claimed that Marciano had been killed in an Israeli air strike on Gaza on November 9. The graphic images appear to show a laceration to her head and one of her legs broken at the ankle.
In a statement to Israeli news outlets, the IDF identified Marciano as the woman in the video and said it had sent officers to speak with her family following its publication.
« Our hearts go out to the Marciano family, whose daughter, Noa, was cruelly kidnapped by the Hamas terrorist organization, » it said. « We are working with all means, intelligence and operational, in order to return the abductees home. »
The statement added: « Hamas continues to use psychological terror and behaves inhumanely, through kidnapping videos and photos, as it has done in the past.
