In a video released by Hamas on its Telegram channel on Monday, two hostages, Elkana Bohbot and Yosef-Haim Ohana, both kidnapped from the Supernova music festival on Oct. 7, criticized the Israeli government for relaunching its war against Gaza on March 18, saying "that attack could have killed us," and made emotional pleas for information about their conditions to be shared with the public.

"We know they are telling you that they intend to send us home," Ohana said, "but know that an attack like the one that happened yesterday was the closest thing to my death and the death of those with me."

"Enough with this government silencing our voices," Bohbot tells the camera, speaking emphatically. "The prisoners who were with us before and now released. Give them a chance to speak and express their opinions."

Before the release of the video, Haaretz reports, the only sign of life from Bohbot was footage of his abduction that Hamas released, in which Bohbot appeared bound and wounded. According to hostages who have returned from captivity, Bohbot has been held in underground tunnels in Gaza with little access to food. 

Bohbot addressed Ohad Ben Ami, who was held in captivity with them, directly. Ami was released in early February as part of the cease-fire and hostage exchange deal between Israel and Hamas. "Ohad, why don't you tell them? You were with us, you were sitting with us ...  You know how it was during the deal and during the war."

A mid-February report from Times of Israel details a meeting Ami had with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, during which he reportedly explained the hostages' dire conditions and pleaded for Israelis to take to the streets to support those still being held in Gaza.

Since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu collapsed the cease-fire deal on Saturday, killing more than 500 people in less than 12 hours in an extensive bombing campaign across the strip, tens of thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets, in protests that both call for an end to the war and denounce Netanyahu's decision to fire the Shin Bet chief who was investigating the government's Oct. 7 failures.

“There were six of us there who lived in terrible conditions in six square meters,” Ami is quoted by Times of Israel as saying. “My entire concern and desire is simply that all my friends return.”

“The moment we knew that [the protesters] were fighting for us and that they wanted us to return, it gave us all the strength and strengthened us,” he said in the meeting. “We can’t rest, we can’t be quiet even for a minute. We won’t be quiet and we won’t rest.”

Israel accuses Hamas of using videos such as the one released on Monday of Bohbot and Ohana as psychological warfare, while Hamas accuses Israel of killing its own in the bombings that have targeted most of the besieged enclave.