Final moments when Tanzanian student was killed by Hamas
These are the final moments before Hamas terrorists kidnapped and slaughtered a Tanzanian agriculture student.
Joshua Mollel, 21, was one of three agriculture interns from Tanzania living and working on a dairy farm in Kibbutz Nir Oz when Hamas launched its surprise incursion on Black Saturday.
Israeli authorities found he was ‘immediately killed after being kidnapped by Hamas,’ Tanzania’s foreign ministry said earlier this week, confirming his death.
New footage, too graphic to publish, reveals Hamas gunmen shot his dead body several times after he had died.
An unidentified man carrying a rifle stands on his chest and shoots him eight times, as several more people, all of them armed with rifles or knives, scream ‘Allahu Akbar’ over and over again.
Other footage taken shortly before his death, also too graphic to publish, shows around half a dozen armed Hamas fighters manhandling the young student, whose face is covered in blood that appears to have come from a wound at the top of his face.
Israel said in a post to X: ‘Joshua Mollel (21) from Tanzania was on an agricultural exchange program in Israel, when Hamas terrorists murdered him on October 7th.
‘They filmed his final moments, before brutally stabbing him, standing on his chest and spraying his body with bullets.
‘Barbaric monsters. May Joshua’s memory be a blessing.’
Joshua, the oldest of five children, had finished a diploma in agriculture studies in Morogoro, and had arrived in Israel in September, the first time he had left his home country.
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He had plans to open his own agriculture business and was on an internship at the Kibbutz Nir Oz dairy farm to learn more about farming.
On the day of the October 7 attack, he and two of the other Tanzanian students on the exchange programme, Ezekiel Kitiku and Clemence Mtenga, scrambled to get to their closest shelters after hearing sirens warning about the attack.
As they were working different shift patterns and at different farms, they were not together and had to communicate using WhatsApp, which seemingly cut off at around 10 am.
Ezekiel told the BBC that after this, he did not hear any news about the others until he found out that Clemence, originally taken hostage, was declared dead on November 18, and had his body sent back to Tanzania.
Weeks after the October 7 attack, Joshua’s father, Louito, said he last spoke to him two days before Hamas’ attack.
‘I said, “Be on your best behaviour because you’re somewhere new, and make the most of the internship you’re there to do”,’ he said.
‘My son wants to make his fortune in agribusiness and become one of Tanzania’s most successful farmers,’ his father said at the time.
‘We can’t eat or sleep — when I go to the market people ask me why I’m losing so much weight,’ said his father weeks after the attack.
He told AFP in late October, ‘I feel bad all the time because my son is not a warrior. He just went for training but is now in trouble.’
He described his son as ‘polite, obedient and serious’ about his work.
Louito told the BBC that Joshua’s younger siblings ‘ask me every morning and night: “Dad, we want to talk to our brother”.’
