GAZA.- The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas reported the death of five Israeli hostages in its possession, attributing the deaths of the victims to the presence of the Israeli Army in the Gaza Strip.
Through a statement, the extremist group distanced itself from its responsibility to protect the lives of those who still remain in captivity after the terrorist group attacked Israel on October 7, and took the path of war again.
“We assume that the hostages have died in one of these Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip,” according to the organization in its message, in which it identifies three of the hostages by name: Haim Perry, Yoram Metzger and Amiram Cooper, among them. 80 and 84 years old, who appeared alive in a video published by Hamas last Monday.
In this way, the terrorist group seeks to justify the death of the five kidnapped people.
During the month of November, a truce was reached so that both Hamas and Israel could release citizens who were hostages in the middle of the war.
The Israeli Army announced that it killed the head of military supplies for the armed wing of Hamas, Hasan al Atrash, in an attack carried out in the Gazan city of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip.
The military identifies Al Atrash as “responsible for the supply and production of weapons for Hamas, as well as the smuggling of weapons from several countries to the Gaza Strip,” according to a statement published on its X social network account.
The Israeli Army also indicates that Al Atrash was also involved in supplying weapons to “terrorists” in the West Bank.
Hamas’s armed wing, the Ezzeldin al-Qassam Brigades, has not yet commented on the matter.
Israel launched an offensive against the area after the attacks carried out on October 7 by Hamas, which left some 1,200 dead and nearly 240 kidnapped. The Gazan authorities, controlled by the Islamist group, have put the number of Palestinians dead at more than 20,000, to which another 300 are added at the hands of the Israeli Army and by attacks by settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Source: With information from EUROPA PRESS
