Report: Liri Albag says she proposed captivity clip to captors, refused to enter tunnels

Former hostage Liri Albag has told family it was she who suggested to her captors to film a recent video message of her in captivity, so that her family would know she was alive, Channel 12 reports.

The clip was sent out by Hamas at the start of January, shortly before the terror group reached a ceasefire deal with Israel.

Albag said she appealed to Hamas’s desire to increase public pressure on the Israeli government to strike a deal.

“I told them my dad is strong and is being heard [in Israel],” she recounted. “And they went ahead and filmed me.”

The network brings more quotes from Albag.

“For some of the time I heard radio and knew exactly what was going on. It wasn’t easy realizing it was going to take a long time [to return]. We tried to stay optimistic and manage things,” she said.

“At one point the terrorists wanted to take me to the tunnels and I wouldn’t do it. I told them I refused. I couldn’t stand the quiet and loneliness there,” Channel 12 cites Albag as saying.

“We must bring all the hostages out quickly,” she stressed. “Every minute is an eternity.”