Nimrod Cohen’s face blurred in Hamas video, but father spots him by tattoo

While Hamas blurred the face of hostage Nimrod Cohen in the video it published earlier tonight, his father identifies him by his tattoo on his forearm.

“He got the tattoo a few days before he was kidnapped,” Yehuda Cohen tells Ynet.

Nimrod is one of two hostages whose faces are blurred in the video.

“I’m disappointed that we don’t see Nimrod’s face because I haven’t seen him in a year and a half, but these are Hamas’s games,” Yehuda Cohen says.

He rejects Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s branding of the video as “psychological terror” and accuses the premier of sacrificing the hostages in order to maintain his grip on power.

Netanyahu’s far-right coalition partners have threatened to collapse the government if he advances with the hostage deal’s second phase. He has largely refused to hold talks on that stage for the past month, as stipulated in the agreement.