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NextImg:Newly released abduction video shows hostage Matan Angrest manhandled by Gazans

In a full video of his abduction aired Monday, hostage soldier Matan Angrest can be seen wounded and shirtless, being manhandled by several Hamas gunmen before being dropped to a crowd from the top of a tank during the October 7, 2023, onslaught.

Angrest’s family allowed media outlets to air the full video of the kidnapping by Hamas terrorists to raise pressure on the government to sign a deal for his release. The 21-year-old was taken from a tank at the Nahal Oz military base during the battle there.

In April, Channel 12 news published a shorter version of the same clip and several still images from the video, as well as his subsequent interrogation in Gaza.

Angrest’s serious medical condition was also detailed by Channel 12 on Monday, citing evidence received by the family and a medical analysis of the information. According to some reported medical opinions, his poor health puts him at risk of death.

The report said Angrest has been subjected to torture with car batteries and electric paddles until losing consciousness. He suffers from chronic asthma attacks, particularly after the violent interrogations.

He has suffered severe injuries to his hands, including severe burns to the nerves and untreated infections. As such, he can no longer move some of his fingers, the report said.

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“I just ask, why do we deserve this? Why have they [the government] left Matan in his situation, while knowing his difficult situation?” Anat Angrest, Matan’s mother, told Channel 12 shortly after the video was released, adding that the family continues to receive information about his state in captivity.

“What else needs to happen for the government to wake up and fight for all the hostages, and for them to release [hostage] soldiers?” she asked.

Both Anat and Matan’s father, Hagai, said their son was in “immediate life-threatening danger.”

Hagai told Channel 12 that he believed some of the information collected by the Israeli intelligence apparatus on his son’s condition was not properly passed on to the prime minister and the committee that decides which hostages should be released under deals.

Anat Angrest speaks at a press conference in Tel Aviv, marking 600 days of the hostages’ captivity, May 28, 2025 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

“This is the big oversight that kept Matan in captivity,” Hagai said. “After our meeting with the prime minister, we realized he didn’t know that Matan was injured.”

He said he was sure the government would have demanded Angrest’s release in the January ceasefire if the sharing of that information was more orderly, and vowed that any new information the family received would be shared “immediately” with the public.

Under the January agreement, Hamas released 30 hostages — 20 Israeli civilians, five soldiers, and five Thai nationals — and the bodies of eight slain Israeli captives during a ceasefire between January and March. However, no soldiers were freed under the deal.

Hamas issued a propaganda video of Angrest in March, less than a week after his family published the first photo of him in captivity, a still captured from a previous video received from the terror group.

Terror groups in the Gaza Strip are holding 55 hostages, including 54 of the 251 abducted by Hamas-led terrorists on October 7, 2023.

Hostage Matan Angrest in a first image released by his family from Hamas captivity, March 3, 2025. (Courtesy)

They include the bodies of at least 33 confirmed dead by the IDF, and 20 who are believed to be alive. There are grave concerns for the well-being of two others, Israeli officials have said.

After the January ceasefire collapsed, Hamas freed an additional hostage, a dual American-Israeli citizen, Edan Alexander, in May, as a “gesture” to the United States. The terror group freed 105 civilians during a weeklong truce in late November 2023, and four hostages were released before that in the early weeks of the war. In exchange, Israel has freed some 2,000 jailed Palestinian terrorists, security prisoners, and Gazan terror suspects detained during the war.

Eight hostages have been rescued from captivity by troops alive, and the bodies of 44 have also been recovered, including three mistakenly killed by the Israeli military as they tried to escape their captors, and the body of a soldier who was killed in 2014.

The body of another soldier killed in 2014 is still being held by Hamas and is counted among the 55 hostages.