The Israeli Consulate General in New York City launched a digital billboard ad campaign in Times Square to mark the two-year anniversary of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack and bring attention to the plight of the hostages the terror group still holds in Gaza.
“We mark two years since Hamas’s brutal invasion of Israel and the savage, barbaric massacre carried out by many Gazans against families, women, children and Holocaust survivors,” Ofir Akunis, the Israeli consul general in New York, stated.
“In order to end the war, Hamas must go and free the hostages,” the billboard states. Another view shows video footage of Nova festival attendees fleeing Hamas and of Noa Argamani, whom Israeli security forces freed after 246 days of captivity.
“We will never forgive nor forget the atrocities committed by the new Nazis called Hamas,” Akunis stated. “Even if weak leaders around the world have forgotten and tried rewarding them with the prize of a Palestinian terror state, it will never be established.”
Of 48 hostages who remain in Gaza, 20 are believed to be alive, according to the Israeli government. There are grave concerns about the health of the living.
Israel has previously launched Times Square billboard campaigns about the emaciated condition of hostages Rom Braslavski and Evyatar David, who appeared starved in Hamas propaganda videos.
