Hamas releases propaganda video with dead Israeli hostages

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By Yaron Steinbuch

The notorious military wing of Hamas has posted a sick propaganda video trying to blame Israel for the three hostages who were killed in captivity.

The clip published by the al-Qassam Brigades shows captives Elia Toledano, Nick Beiser and Ron Sherman holding up sheets of paper identifying themselves to the camera.

It ends on a grotesque note with digitized blood spatters superimposed on their images before showing all three talking inside their small cell.

“We tried to keep them alive but (Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu insisted on killing them,” the Hamas wing said in a statement in Arabic, Hebrew and English.

“All 3 killed by IDF weapons,” it then claims in a statement in faux blood while ominous music plays.

The Israel Defense Forces did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment Friday.

Toledano, 28, who had dual French Israeli citizenship, was an event producer who was abducted and held hostage by the terrorists during the Oct. 7 massacre at the Nova music festival in the southern Israeli desert.

He was taken along with his friend Mia Schem, who was later released in a hostage swap.

Schem, a 21-year-old Israeli French tattoo artist, was seen in a chilling Hamas-released video receiving treatment from a veterinarian for a wound on her arm.

Beiser was a 19-year-old corporal in the IDF who was kidnapped Oct. 7 while serving as a driver at his base.

“We saw that they were leading him. He was in shorts and a T-shirt, and had only one flip-flop, and this flip-flop also fell off, and he went to Gaza barefoot,” his mother said after seeing a video Hamas released on his abduction, Haaretz reported.

Sherman, 19, who held Argentinian and Israeli citizenship, also was a soldier and the last words he wrote to his parents when he was kidnapped were: “I love you. It’s over.”