Hamas published a propaganda video on its Telegram channel on Saturday evening, giving a sign of life to two hostages.
The two hostages of the video are Elkana Bohbot, 35, and Yosef-Chaim Ohana, 24.
Hamas had previously published a video of the two at the end of March.
The two were kidnapped from the Nova Music Festival on October 7, 2023.
In the last published video of them, they looked pale and were seated on the ground.
Yosef-Chaim Ohana (L) and Elkana Bohbot (R) in a Hamas propaganda video, May 10, 2025 (Credit: Hamas Telegram)
During the propaganda video, Bohbot seems too sick to work, Ohana saying that Bohbot was self-fat.
Ohana states that he, with a Hamas terrorist, intervened a few days ago to prevent Bohbot from injuring himself again.
“We have lost our world and our hope,” seems to say Bohbot.
Ohana also seems to be referring to Sara Netanyahu’s declaration that less than 24 hostages remain alive, declaring “it seems that she knows what you are not doing”.
Ohana also declares that Bohbot seems little willing to eat or drink, adding: “We have little food in this terrible reality.”
“I also stopped eating because the fate of my colleague (Bohbot) is also my fate,” added Ohana.
“Our spell is in your hands,” said Ohana in a message to the Israeli authorities, before adding that “your hands are stained with blood, you who make decisions.”
“It is time to arrest this war. Time is exhausted,” it seems to conclude.
Hamas, at the end of the video, set up two sentences in Hebrew, Arabic and English. The first reading “only a cease-fire agreement brings them back alive”, and the second “time is exhausted”.
In response, Elkana Bohbot’s family said, “How much more can we bear? How much can they do? The fact that they are still there-is a shame. Elkana and Yosef cry to be saved.”
“While Israel hears their calls, a handful of decision -makers refuse to listen. We call them – find the courage and bring them back and all the hostages at home,” continued their declaration.
Who is Elkana Bohbot?
It was revealed in February that Bohbot, who suffers from asthma, is held in inhuman conditions in the tunnels of Gaza, Channel 12 reported, citing the testimony of a released hostage which was detained with him.
During his stay in captivity, Bohbot developed a serious skin disease caused by the lamentable conditions in which he is held.
“Of course, he did not receive appropriate medical treatment,” said the hostage published by the media.
Bohbot was held with five other hostages in a narrow tunnel 30 meters deep. They could barely stand up or walk due to a lack of space and sleep on a damp sheet full of mold.
Who is Yosef-Chaim Ohana?
Ohana, from Kiryat Malachi, attended the music festival after his friend Daniel Sharabi invited him as well as a few other people to celebrate the Ohana party before his trip to the United States for a pilot course.
In an interview The Jerusalem post In New York, Sharabi said he wanted to go to the festival in the morning, but Ohana wanted to go there at night, so they went at night.
At 6:30 am, the music stopped at the festival while the sirens of the air raid sounded, he said. When they started to leave, they saw a girl having a panic attack. As they had both served together doctors in the Givati brigade, they stopped to help him. Two of their friends ran to their car and started to pack, he said.
Ohana and Sharabi helped anyone who saw who was injured by gunshots and took them to paramedical paramedics to obtain appropriate treatment, Ohana’s mother in Ynet told. “They tried to run towards the main road, but they then saw that they were dismissed by RPGs,” she said. “Yosef-Chaim ran to the left, and his friend ran right and hid under a car.”
Sharabi said, “I saw him standing behind a car. He appeared and went down. He was shot dead by an RPG. “The next time Sharabi saw Ohana in a video of the published Hamas. This has shown that the terrorists remove him and bringing him back to Gaza.
