Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group releases third video of hostage Sasha Trufanov

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group releases a video of hostage Sasha Trufanov.

It is unclear when the video was made. In the clip Trufanov says that he is aged 28; however, the video is released two days after he turned 29, his second birthday in captivity.

It is the third video the terror group has released of Trufanov.

Terror groups have previously issued similar videos of hostages in what Israel says is deplorable psychological warfare.

Most Israeli media do not carry the video clips.

Trufanov was taken hostage along with three members of his family — grandmother Irena Tati, mother Yelena (Lena) Trufanova and his girlfriend Sapir Cohen — from Kibbutz Nir Oz during the October 7 Hamas massacre in the Gaza border town.

Trufanova and Tati were released by Hamas on November 29 at the request of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Cohen was released on November 30 as part of a temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Sasha Trufanov is an engineer employed at Annapurna Labs, an Israeli microelectronics company purchased by Amazon.

He and Cohen had recently moved in together in a Ramat Gan apartment, so when the Gaza border communities were attacked by Hamas terrorists in what became a massacre of hundreds, his friends didn’t know at first that he was visiting his family there.

Last month, the Hamas terror group said Trufanov and another hostage with Russian citizenship, Maxim Herkin, will be among the first to be released during an eventual hostage deal.