CAIRO, November 15. /TASS/. The militant wing of the radical Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, the Al-Quds Brigades, has posted on its Telegram channel a new video of a young man who introduced himself as Alexander Trufanov, a hostage with Russian citizenship who is being held in the Gaza Strip.

The young man appealed in Hebrew to former Israeli Interior Minister and head of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party Aryeh Deri, asking him "not to let the Israeli government forget about the hostages" and not to let them "die in the tunnels of Gaza without the possibility of being buried in their homeland." According to the hostage, it is Deri and his Shas party who "have a historic responsibility" to "do the impossible and bring home all the Israelis held in Gaza."

He also pointed out that the hostages' lives "are in grave danger every day," and recalled the country’s religious obligation to ransom the hostages.

This is the second video message by a young man identifying himself as Alexander Trufanov in the past two days: the first was posted on November 13. In it, the hostage held in Gaza said that he was "in a difficult situation", practically "without food, water and electricity". According to the young man, his life is "constantly jeopardized by the ongoing shelling" of the enclave. The young man then expressed fears that with the start of the Israeli army's operation in Lebanon, "the hostages in Gaza have begun to be forgotten," and with a possible confrontation between Israel and Iran, "the case of the hostages [in Gaza] will be completely forgotten."