ハマス、人質の動画公開 ガザでの生活は「地獄」

【パレスチナ自治区ＡＦＰ＝時事】イスラム組織ハマスは２４日、パレスチナ自治区ガザ地区で拘束しているイスラエル系米国人の人質男性が「地獄の中で」暮らしていると語る動画をテレグラムの公式アカウントで公開した。（写真は、中東エルサレムにあるイスラエル首相官邸前で、イスラム組織ハマスに拉致されたハーシュ・ゴールドバーグポリンさんらの解放を求め、抗議デモを行う人）
　男性は昨年１０月７日にハマスがイスラエルを攻撃した際、南部ネゲブ砂漠で開催されていた音楽フェスティバル「スーパーノバ」で拉致された人質の一人、ハーシュ・ゴールドバーグポリンさん（２３）を名乗っている。
　ハマスに拉致された被害者家族の団体「人質および行方不明者家族フォーラム」は、ゴールドバーグポリンさんの両親が「息子ハーシュさんの動画」をメディアが放送することを許可したと述べた。ＡＦＰは動画の真偽について、独自に検証できていない。
　ゴールドバーグポリンさんは拘束された際に重傷を負った。動画では左肘から先が失われており、「友人と遊びに行ったのに、全身に重傷を負い、生きるために闘うことになった」と語っている。
　動画が撮影された日時や場所は不明だが、ゴールドバーグポリンさんは人質にされている期間について「約２００日間」と言及している。昨年１０月７日のハマスによる奇襲攻撃を受けてイスラエル軍とハマスとの戦闘が始まってから２３日で２００日が経過した。
　強要された状態で話したとみられるゴールドバーグポリンさんは、イスラエルのベンヤミン・ネタニヤフ首相のガザ紛争への対応や、人質奪還に失敗したイスラエル軍を批判している。
　さらに、人質は「水も食料も日光もない地下で、私が切実に必要としている医療も受けられないまま、とても長期間暮らしている」と語っている。
　ゴールドバーグポリンさんの両親は２４日夜、「きょう、ハーシュの動画を見て打ちひしがれた」と声明を発表。「生きている息子の姿を見てほっとしたが、彼の健康と暮らしの状態、そして他の人質全員やこの地域で苦しんでいるすべての人々の健康と暮らしについて心配している」と述べた。
　また、戦闘休止と人質返還について交渉している各方面に対し、「私たち全員が愛する家族と再会し、この地域の苦難が終わるよう、この機会に勇気をもって身を乗り出し交渉を成立させてほしい」と求めた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/04/25-20:06）

Palestinian militant group Hamas released Wednesday a video of an Israeli-American man held hostage in Gaza who is seen alive and saying that the captives are living in hell.
He identifies himself as Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, one of the hostages abducted from the Nova music festival in southern Israel during the Hamas attack on October 7.
His parents said in a statement they were relieved to see him alive but worried for his wellbeing.
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum campaign group said the family had given permission for the video of their son Hersh to be broadcast by the media.
Goldberg-Polin was seriously wounded during his capture and the video shows him missing a hand.
I went to hang out with my friends, and instead, I found myself fighting for my life with severe injuries all over my body, he says in the video, the authenticity of which AFP has not been able to independently verify.
It was unclear when or where the video was taken, though Goldberg-Polin mentions being held hostage for almost 200 days. The Israel-Hamas war hit the 200-day mark on Tuesday.
Posted on Hamas's official Telegram account, the footage shows Goldberg-Polin, likely speaking under duress, criticising Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's handling of the crisis and the military's failed attempts to bring the hostages home.
In an apparent reference to Jewish Passover, which began this week, Goldberg-Polin says: Netanyahu and members of the Israeli government, while you sit and have holiday meals with your families, think of us, the hostages, who are still here in hell.
He urges them to bring us home now.
- 'Stay strong, survive' -
He says the captives have been living under the ground without water, without food, without sun, without the medical care that I need so much for a long, long time.
Goldberg-Polin's mother has been campaigning for his return and met Pope Francis at the Vatican last year, where she appealed for help.
I know you are doing everything for me to return home as soon as possible, Goldberg-Polin says in the video, addressing his family.
I need you to stay strong for me and not stop fighting until I, and each and every one of the hostages, return home safely.
In a statement late on Wednesday his parents Rachel Goldberg-Polin and Jon Polin said seeing the video of Hersh today is overwhelming.
We are relieved to see him alive but we are also concerned about his health and wellbeing as well as that of all the other hostages and all of those suffering in this region, they said.
They urged parties negotiating a potential ceasefire and the return of the hostages to be brave, lean in, seize this moment and get a deal done to reunite all of us with our loved ones and end the suffering in this region.
Hersh, we heard your voice today for the first time in 201 days and if you can hear us, we are telling you, we love you, stay strong, survive, they said.
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum group also appealed for the return of the hostages.
Hersh's cry is the collective cry of all the hostages -- their time is rapidly running out, it said in a statement.
With each passing day, the fear of losing more innocent lives grows stronger.
Late on Wednesday dozens of demonstrators rallied outside Netanyahu's official residence in Jerusalem, holding signs that read: Bring them home now.
Israel estimates 129 of the roughly 250 people abducted during the Hamas attack on October 7 remain in Gaza, including 34 who the military says are dead.
The Hamas attack resulted in the deaths of 1,170 people, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.
It triggered the deadliest war between Hamas and Israel, with Netanyahu vowing to eliminate the militant group that rules Gaza.
In Israel's blistering military offensive in Gaza, 34,262 people have been killed, most of them women and children, according to the territory's health ministry.
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