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Almog Levy turns 3 today, with father captive in Gaza, mother murdered on Oct. 7, says hostage’s brother

25 June 2024, 10:24 am Edit
Screenshots of hostages Hersh Goldberg-Polin (left), Eliya Cohen (middle) and Or Levy (right) as they were taken hostage into Gaza by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 (Courtesy Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
Screenshots of hostages Hersh Goldberg-Polin (left), Eliya Cohen (middle) and Or Levy (right) as they were taken hostage into Gaza by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 (Courtesy Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

The brother of Or Levy, who was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on October 7 and is still held in Gaza, says his family had been working to release footage from his brother’s abduction for around six months. The footage was finally released last night.

Michael Levi tells Channel 12 that the video was not purposely published as a response to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments this week that he was prepared to “do a partial deal… that would return some of the people to us,” while being “obligated to continue the fighting after a pause in order to complete our goal of destroying Hamas.”

“The timing worked out well but it wasn’t planned that way,” he says.

The video shows Levy, along with Hersh Goldberg-Polin and Eliya Cohen, being driven to Gaza by Hamas terrorists on October 7, after being shoved onto the flatbed of a pickup truck.

Filmed by the Hamas terrorists the footage shows gunmen towering over the three men yelling “Allahu akbar” (God is greatest) with AK-47s pointed high as the truck barreled down a one-lane road into Gaza.

Levy and his wife, Eynav, arrived at the Supernova music festival only at 6:20 a.m. on October 7, just minutes before the Hamas onslaught began. Eynav was killed by terrorists while hiding in a field shelter, while Or Levy was taken to Gaza as a hostage.

Their young son, Almog, turns three today, Michael says.

“Now more than ever is the time to remind the government and anyone involved in this matter that they’re still there and they’re still alive and their time is running out,” he says, adding, “We need to bring them home now.”

Michael points out that if Israel were to move forward with only a “partial deal,” as Netanyahu mentioned this week, his brother would not be released as he is not a “humanitarian” hostage, a category that only includes female, elderly and sick hostages.

On October 7, Hamas killed 364 people at the festival and kidnapped 40, while committing numerous acts of brutality and sexual assault. Thousands of terrorists burst across the border into Israel from Gaza by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people across southern Israel and seizing 251 hostages of all ages under the cover of a deluge of thousands of rockets fired at Israeli towns and cities.

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