The two hostages have been identified as Keith Siegel, 64, and Omri Miran, 47, who is reportedly a Portuguese-Israeli, and their identities have been confirmed by the Hostage Families Forum.

The Palestinian Islamist movement had already released a video on Wednesday of another Israeli hostage, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23.

The new video is not dated, but Omri Miran said he had been in the hands of Hamas for 202 days, which corresponds to Thursday, counting the days since the attack in which the hostages were taken.

The new information comes in the context of negotiations, mediated by Qatar and Egypt, for a truce in the fighting in the Gaza Strip associated with the release of several hostages.

Apparently speaking under duress, Omri Miran described "a difficult situation" due to the "numerous Israeli bombings" in the Gaza Strip and asked his family to pressure the government to reach an agreement with Hamas that would allow for his release.

The families of the hostages taken by Hamas in the October attack, who formed a Forum, believe that this "proof of life of Keith Siegel and Omri Miran makes it clear that the Israeli government must do everything possible to reach an agreement for the return of all hostages before Independence Day", which is celebrated on May 14.

"The State of Israel has to choose: hostages or war. Entering Rafah will bring more hostages killed in captivity or their death in the war. Entering Rafah will be another path to the death of the hostages. Israel must choose the return of the hostages", they argue.

To Notícias ao Minuto, the Jewish Community of Porto initially reported that Omri Miran had made a request for Portuguese nationality that had not yet been granted. However, this Sunday, it confirmed that the hostage, after all, "seems to be Portuguese".

According to the same source, the relatives of the hostage Omri Miran were in Porto on February 8, 2024, "as part of a group of parents and siblings of the hostages Omer Shem Tov, Or Levy, Tsachi Eitan and Or Levy", who still do not have Portuguese nationality.

Omri Miran (on the poster) and his relative, at the synagogue in Porto, in February© Jewish Community of Porto

The organization that represents the families of the hostages has called for the dismissal of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at a time when his war cabinet is threatening to attack Rafah, where about 1.2 million displaced persons and 200,000 residents live.

At least 34,200 people have died and more than 77,000 have been injured in the war that Israel launched in the Gaza Strip, in retaliation for the attack by the Islamist movement Hamas on Israeli territory, which killed 1,163 people, mostly civilians, and 250 hostages, about 130 of whom remain in captivity and 34 have since died, according to the latest report by the Israeli authorities.

The conflict, which has been going on for more than six months, has also displaced almost two million people, plunging the Palestinian enclave into a serious humanitarian crisis, with more than 1.1 million people in a "catastrophic hunger situation" that is claiming victims - "the highest number ever recorded" by the UN in food security studies in the world.

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[News updated at 3:08 pm on April 28]

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