TEL AVIV, January 15. /TASS/. The Palestinian radical group Hamas has published a new video of three Israeli hostages among those captured by the radicals on October 7, 2023, the Jerusalem Post said.

According to the newspaper, "the video shows them introducing themselves and asking the Israeli government to return them home."

At this time, it is unclear when the video was filmed. Hamas said that the fate of the three hostages would be revealed on Monday.

Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7, 2023, when militants from the Gaza-based Palestinian radical group Hamas staged a surprise incursion into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip. Hamas described its attack as a response to the aggressive actions of Israeli authorities against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. In response, Israel has declared a state of war readiness; announced a total blockade of the Gaza Strip, home to 2.3 million Palestinians; and began delivering air strikes on the enclave and certain parts of Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are underway in the West Bank as well.