The family of Itzik Elgarat , an Israeli hostage who was kidnapped from his home at Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7, 2023, and later declared dead, has received video footage showing him alive during his captivity.

Itzik’s brother Danny Elgarat said on Wednesday that Israeli authorities summoned the family to show them a video “from before his death in captivity,” Ynet reported.

Danny called it “a sign of life from the dead.”

He described Itzik in the video as “very emaciated, very scared, very confused. I saw in his eyes that he understood that he would probably never get out of there alive. A feeling of betrayal. He begged for his life in the video. He said he wanted to go back and that he missed his family.”

Danny said that the video was several minutes long, explaining: “I can’t rea

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