Israel stated it was investigating the footage launched by Hamas displaying the our bodies of two Israeli hostages. The Palestinian terror outfit claimed that the hostages had been killed within the Israeli army strikes.
Within the purported video, 26-year-old Noa Argamani might be seen studying a script in entrance of a wall, saying her fellow hostages Itai Svirsky and Yossi Sharabi had been killed. The footage ends with photos of the useless our bodies of each males.
Israel Protection Forces (IDF) spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari stated the declare made by Hamas that the army focused the constructing the place hostages have been being held, was a lie. He, nevertheless, indicated that it was doable that the hostages have been situated near a constructing that the IDF focused.
“Itai was not killed by our forces. It is a Hamas lie. The constructing the place they have been held was not a goal and was not attacked by our forces,” Hagari stated.
“We didn’t know their precise location in real-time. We don’t strike the place we all know there are hostages. On reflection, we all know that we attacked targets near the situation the place they have been held,” he added.
Hagari stated the army was analyzing the photographs Hamas posted together with the opposite data it had.
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Notably, Argamani grew to become one of many distinguished faces of Hamas’ brutality as she was filmed by her captors being taken into Gaza forcefully on the again of a motorbike.
Sharabi, 53, was kidnapped from Kibbutz Beeri, alongside his brother. Svirsky, 35, was additionally picked from the identical area after being shot and wounded. Notably, Kibbutz Beeri was one of many hardest-hit communities within the Hamas assault of October 7 final yr.
Ever for the reason that second truce deal between Israel and Hamas collapsed, Tel Aviv has upped the ante by re-launching aerial and floor operations.
Hamas-run Palestinian well being ministry claims that greater than 24,000 individuals have been killed since Israel launched its retaliatory operations following the militant group’s assault on October 7 in southern Israel.
(With inputs from businesses)
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