Hostage Liri Albag seen in an image taken from a video published by Hamas on January 4, 2025 (Hostage Family Forum)
The Albag family authorizes the publication of two still images taken from the video of hostage Liri Albag put out by Hamas.
The family had earlier asked not to use the video or any images.
“The video published today tore our hearts to pieces,” the family says in a statement. “This is not the same daughter and sister we know.”
“She is not in a good condition. Her difficult mental state is obvious,” the statement says.
“We saw heroic Liri surviving and begging for her life. She is only a few dozen kilometers from us and for 456 days we have not been able to bring her home,” says the family.
Appealing to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government, the family says, “It is time for you to decide as if your children were there.”
“Liri is alive and must come back alive. This depends only on you,” the family says. “You must not miss this current opportunity to bring them back. All of them.”
Hostage Liri Albag seen in an image taken from a video published by Hamas on January 4, 2025. (Hostage Family Forum)
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