The Israeli Army said this Sunday that it had notified the families of 155 hostages about their captivity, updating the previous report, which reported 126 people captured in the hands of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
“We are making colossal efforts to free the hostages,” said military spokesman Daniel Hagari in a press conference, specifying that the families of “155 captives” had been contacted.
Israel has been on high alert since October 7, when Palestinian fighters from the Islamist movement Hamas attacked the south of the country on several fronts from the Gaza Strip, killing more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and capturing others. held in captivity in Gaza. and some of them were killed, according to Hamas, by Israeli bombings.
It was an offensive supported by the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah and the Palestinian branch of Islamic Jihad.
Heavy Israeli retaliation has so far killed more than 2,670 people, including more than 700 children, and injured at least 9,600 in the Gaza Strip, a poor Palestinian enclave since 2007 controlled by Hamas, a group classified as a terrorist organization by United States and the European Union and for Israel.
Israel, which imposed a total siege on Gaza, cutting off water, fuel and electricity supplies, and plans a massive offensive in the north of that Palestinian territory, issued an ultimatum to the civilian population (around 1.1 million people) for him to go and head. to the south, a forced transfer that provoked protests from the international community and that the World Health Organization (WHO) stated that, for the most fragile groups, it could be “equivalent to a death penalty.”
Source: TSF
