The Islamic group Hamas threatened on Monday to publicly execute Israeli civilian hostages if Israel continues bombing the Gaza Strip without warning residents.
“Any attack on innocent homes in Gaza, without prior notice and warning, will be met with the public execution of a hostage,” Abu Obeida, spokesman for the Al Qasam brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said in a statement.
“The execution will be of civilian hostages, not military ones, and will be broadcast online,” the statement added.
Israel has been heavily shelling the entire Gaza Strip throughout the day, including military facilities of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, but also civilian infrastructure and residential buildings.
The dead in the enclave exceed 560 and the injured exceed 2,900, according to data from the Gaza Ministry of Health, but it is estimated that the number will increase in the coming hours because there are people trapped under the rubble of the destroyed houses.
The Palestinians in the area denounced this Monday that Israel has stopped using the method known as “roof hitting”, by which non-explosive devices are thrown on the roofs of houses as a warning that they will be bombed in a few minutes, so that the population can leave.
“The enemy does not understand the language of humanity and morality, so we will respond in the language he knows,” Obeida promised.
“From this hour we announce that each attack against our people will be responded to with the execution of one of our enemy hostages and we will broadcast it live,” said the spokesman.
Israel declared a state of war against Hamas on Saturday, after this group launched a multiple attack, by land, sea and air, that took the country by surprise, on an unprecedented scale, with the launch of rockets and ground incursions in Israeli soil. killing and kidnapping dozens of citizens.
In three days of war, deaths in Israel exceeded 800 and more than 2,500 were injured by Palestinian aggression, while, on the other side, intense Israeli response bombing in Gaza caused more than 560 deaths and 2,900 injuries.
Source: TSF
