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Thursday, July 4, 2024
Hostage Matan Angrest’s mother says raw footage found by IDF in Gaza shows ‘serious trauma’ from Oct. 7
The mother of Matan Angrest, 21 who has been held by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, tells Channel 12 that she recently saw raw video footage found by IDF soldiers operating in the Strip around November that showed her son.
“He looked like he’d been through serious trauma” during the fighting on October 7, Anat Angrest says in the television interview.
“He survived inside a tank in which three other soldiers were killed and kidnapped dead. Matan survived and was kidnapped while he was seriously injured,” she adds.
Anat says that hostages who were released in a a weeklong truce in late November had said they’d met Matan in Gaza and that he had received medical treatment.
Matan was on duty at the IDF’s Nahal Oz base on the morning of October 7, when some 3,000 terrorists burst across the border into Israel by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 251 hostages, mostly civilians, many amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.
It is believed that 116 hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza — not all of them alive — after 105 civilians were released from Hamas captivity during the November deal, and four hostages were released prior to that. Seven hostages have been rescued by troops alive, and the bodies of 19 hostages have also been recovered, including three mistakenly killed by the military.
The IDF has confirmed the deaths of 42 of those still held by Hamas, citing new intelligence and findings obtained by troops operating in Gaza.
