Hostage's mom says freed son didn't tell them about Hamas video of him saying goodbye to brother in Gaza: 'He wanted to protect us'

Ruth Strom says her son, freed hostage Iair Horn, did not tell the family about the video Hamas made of him saying goodbye to his younger brother Eitan who is still being held in the Gaza Strip.

“Iair didn’t say they were filmed. He wanted to protect us, but I knew something like this would happen. From day one, I knew they were both together. I imagined the separation,” Strom tells the Ynet news site.

The terror group released the video yesterday.

After approving the publication of the video, Horn’s family demanded the government continue the hostage-ceasefire deal. Hamas has rejected an Israeli proposal to extend the first phase, insisting that the deal proceed to stage two, which Israel has largely refused to negotiate for the past month.