By Agence France-Presse

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Hamas’ armed wing released a video on Monday showing an Israeli-German hostage alive, the second such footage of him shared by the militants this month.
The Israeli campaign group Hostages and Missing Families Forum identified the captive as Alon Ohel, who was abducted by Palestinian militants during their October 7, 2023 attack on Israel.
The forum cited his family as urging the media not to use his photograph or excerpts from the video.
In the video, Ohel, 24, dressed in a black T-shirt, appeals to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to secure the release of all captives still held in Gaza.
He is also heard urging his family to continue protesting against Netanyahu and his government to press for their release.
The clip also shows a militant holding a gun, dressed in black, tapping Ohel’s shoulder.

The footage, released by the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, shows Ohel speaking while watching a television screen displaying Netanyahu.
The video or the date it was filmed has not been verified.
Ohel was set to start music studies after returning from a trip to Asia in the weeks before being abducted at the Supernova music festival during the Hamas attack.
He was captured while sheltering on Route 232, the only way out of the festival, with three other young men.
Hamas’ armed wing had released a similar video of Ohel on September 5, in which he appeared alongside another hostage, Guy Gilboa-Dalal.
Of the 251 hostages seized during the Hamas attack, 47 are still in Gaza, including 25 that the Israeli military says are dead.
The attack itself resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, mostly civilians, according to a tally based on Israeli figures.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive against Hamas has since killed at least 65,344 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them civilians, according to figures from the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory that the United Nations considers reliable.