The movies prompted Troufanov’s household to name on Israeli officers to do extra to safe his launch.
PIJ, a militant group that operates in Gaza alongside Hamas, launched the primary video on Tuesday.
Within the brief clip, Troufanov speaks calmly and in Hebrew.
He mentioned: “Within the subsequent few days, you’ll hear the reality of what occurred to me, in addition to the opposite prisoners in Gaza,” per a translation by The Jerusalem Publish.
“Wait patiently,” he mentioned.
The context during which he’s talking was not clear. Hostages are hardly ever capable of converse freely in such movies.
The Hostage and Lacking Households Discussion board, an advocacy group for the hostages, launched a assertion on X in response to the video, saying: “The Trufanov household has approved the use and publication of the video launched as we speak by the Islamic Jihad, after 235 days in captivity, displaying Alexsander Trufanov.”
(The assertion used a variant spelling of Troufanov’s title.)
It argued that the obvious proof that he’s alive ought to immediate the Israeli authorities to do extra to strike a deal for the return of the hostages in Gaza.
Troufanov was kidnapped from Nir Oz kibbutz alongside his grandmother Irena Tati, his mom Yelena, and his girlfriend Sapir Cohen throughout Hamas’ October 7 assaults on Israel, The Instances of Israel reported in December.
His mom, grandmother, and girlfriend have been launched in November, the Israeli outlet Haaretz reported.
Troufanov’s father was killed within the assaults, the report added.
The primary video displaying Troufanov didn’t present any indication of when it had been filmed.
In a second video, launched by PIJ on Thursday, Troufanov seems to confer with the Israeli authorities shutting down the Al Jazeera information channel’s operations within the nation on Might 5, per The Instances of Israel, suggesting that the footage was taken after that date.
Troufanov labored as an engineer at Annapurna Labs, a subsidiary of Amazon, in keeping with his LinkedIn profile.
The Israeli chipmaker was acquired by Amazon Internet Companies in 2015 in a deal that studies instructed was price as much as $370 million.
Russia’s TASS information company reported that the nation’s Chief Rabbi, Berl Lazar, mentioned in February that Russian President Vladimir Putin was conscious of Troufanov’s scenario and was working to assist free the hostages in Gaza.
Putin “has all of the details about the hostages who’ve Russian citizenship. There are three of them, and Alexander Trufanov is just one of them,” the rabbi mentioned, per Tass.
It comes as President Joe Biden unveiled a brand new Israeli proposal to finish the battle in Gaza.
The three-stage proposal provides a “roadmap to an everlasting ceasefire – and the discharge of all of the hostages,” a put up on the president’s X account reads.
The plan, which was delivered to Hamas by Qatar, would start with a ceasefire and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from populated areas of the Gaza Strip.
It will additionally embody an change of Palestinian prisoners for Israeli hostages, a “surge” of humanitarian support, and a reconstruction plan for Gaza.
Hamas has mentioned that it seen the proposal “positively.”
Greater than 36,000 Palestinians have been killed within the battle thus far, in keeping with figures from Gaza’s wholesome ministry. Round 1,200 individuals have been killed in Israel throughout Hamas’ October 7 assaults, with roughly one other 240 taken hostage in Gaza.
PIJ is the second-largest armed group in Gaza after Hamas
Picture by Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Company through Getty Pictures
In line with the US Director of Nationwide Intelligence, PIJ is a “Sunni Islamist militant group in search of to ascertain an Islamist Palestinian state.”
The group’s navy wing, the al-Quds Brigades, has been concerned in a number of assaults on Israel for the reason that Nineteen Nineties — principally small-arms, mortar, and rocket assaults launched from Gaza, per the DNI.
Whereas PIJ has continuously labored with Hamas, the 2 teams stay rivals, with ideological variations and occasional disagreements over their methods towards Israel.
