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Hostage families release clip of 5 female troops’ abduction to push for their freedom

The Hostages and Missing Families Forum released harrowing footage on Wednesday showing the abduction of five female soldiers from the Nahal Oz base by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, describing the video as a “damning testament to the nation’s failure to bring home the hostages.”

The video was taken by body cameras worn by Hamas terrorists that day as they attacked the base near the Gaza border, and it shows Liri AlbagKarina ArievAgam BergerDaniella Gilboa, and Naama Levy. All five are still held hostage by Hamas in Gaza.

The families of the five soldiers asked to have the footage broadcast, with some of the parents saying that the goal is to wake up the nation, and especially the leadership, to work more urgently to secure their release. “I want you to broadcast this footage every day at the start of the news,” said Liri Albag’s father Eli, in the Channel 12 studio after the footage was screened, “until somebody wakes up.”

The three-minute edited video cleared for release begins inside a shelter on the base at around 9 a.m., when terrorists are tying the hands of the five young women, surveillance soldiers whose job is to monitor activity at the border and who appear shocked, horrified, wounded, and bloodied.

One of the terrorists yells at them, “You dogs — we will step on you!” WATCH