The Hostage and Missing Families Forum released footage Thursday showing Israeli hostages Maxim Herkin and Bar Kuperstein in dire conditions after 21 months since their abduction by Hamas terrorists on Octbeber 7th.

In the newly released footage, the two hostages sit with their backs against a wall, with Herkin’s hand visibly bandaged. “We are dead with a pulse, we do not feel human,” they say in the clip. “We are again 30 meters underground.”

Maxim Herkin, 36, a dual Israeli-Russian citizen from Tirat Carmel, was attending his first trance festival when he was captured. The son of a single mother who serves as a father figure to his 11-year-old brother, Herkin has a 3-year-old daughter waiting for his return. His last communication with family came shortly after the initial rocket barrage when he texted his mother, “Everything is alright, I’m making my way home slowly,” followed by a final message reading, “Mother, I love you.”

Bar Kuperstein, who marked his 23rd birthday in captivity on June 30th, his second while being held by Hamas, was working as a security guard at the festival when terrorists invaded. Rather than fleeing, the then 21-year-old Kuperstein remained behind to help the wounded, reportedly shuttling victims to safety four times before being taken captive.

Hamas had initially released the full propaganda video in April, but Herkin’s family confirmed they recognized his voice while requesting that no images or clips be published at the time.

The families’ decision to allow publication comes as they campaign against what they call the “cruel need to select who among them would come home and who would be left behind, according to the Hostage forum.

“To sound the cry of the hostage families in the face of the possibility of a partial deal involving cruel selections, separating one blood from another. All 50 hostages and the hostage are humanitarian cases—some of them in life-threatening situations, and others at risk of being lost forever,” the forum stated upon release of the 44 second clip.

“The families demand to bring an overall agreement that will ensure the return of the last hostage. This is the right and moral action, one that does not require separating siblings and immoral choices of one hostage over another.”

Of the remaining hostages still held in Gaza, only approximately twenty are believed to still be alive. Israeli officials have consistently condemned Hamas’s practice of releasing videos of hostages, describing it as psychological warfare designed to inflict additional emotional trauma on the captives’ families.