Hamas has spread a video in which you can see the hostage Maxim Harkinwounded, changing, bloody, apparently reached by militants in a tunnel obstructed from the ground and debris. The young man speaks with difficulty, with his head and a blindfolded eye, a wounded arm.
Maxim Harkin, 35, kidnapped at the Nova Festival on October 7, 2023, was born in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, and his mother has Russian citizenship. In February, the Israeli ambassador to Russia, Simona Halperin, said that Moscow is taking care of her release. In the video Hamas suggests that the tunnel was targeted by an Israeli air attack. In the images a militian digs with a shovel to reach the kidnapped in a narrow tunnel, revives it and uses the oxygen mask. Then the clip shows Harkin who releases a statement. «Only thanks to the creator did I manage to survive. Here is the result of the military pressure of the war, to free the hostages, like Netanyahu and his coalition tell the people »says the young man with difficulty. «My situation is very serious, I have no medicine, we don’t even talk about being brought to hospital. I don’t know what happened to my friend (Kperstein bar). If the son of Netanyahu or someone in his coalition was here, I assure you that the war would have ended for some time. But that’s not the case, and that’s why we find ourselves here: 59 hostages underground in Gaza », murmurs the kidnapped.
«I ask you, people, go out for us. We have no hope except you. Everyone is against us, please help us. I implore you: do not let the government normalize this situation. Without you, we have no hope. And now Netanyahu will say that it is psychological war … but I tell you that this video will be the last thing my family will see of me », concludes Harkin, prisoner of Hamas in Gaza for 575 days.