A spokesman for the armed wing of Hamas revealed this Tuesday that the Islamist movement will release “foreign hostages in the coming days” and assured that Gaza will be “a cemetery” for Israel if the Israeli army moves forward with a military invasion.
“We have informed the intermediaries that we will release a certain number of foreigners in the coming days,” declared Abu Obeida, spokesman for the al-Qasam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian movement, in a video broadcast by Hamas media.
After the attacks on the 7th of this month, Hamas, a movement considered a terrorist organization by the European Union (EU) and the United States, took more than two hundred hostages.
The Israeli military announced on Tuesday that it had freed a soldier held hostage by the Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israeli authorities said in a statement.
“Soldier Ori Megidish was released [domingo à noite] during a ground operation, after being kidnapped by the Hamas terrorist organization on October 7,” the Internal Security Services and the Israeli military said in a joint statement.
Previously, Hamas had already released four Israeli hostages.
Also on Tuesday, the Palestinian Islamist group published a video in which three Israeli women, allegedly held captive in the Gaza Strip, blame Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for what happened on October 7.
In the video released today, Obeida warns that the Gaza Strip will become “a cemetery and a swamp” for Israeli soldiers and the end of Netanyahu.
“Gaza will be a cemetery and a swamp for the enemy, its soldiers and its political and military leaders. The crushing defeat that will be inflicted on Netanyahu will mark the end of his political career,” Obeida declared.
Today, at noon local time (10:00 Lisbon time), the Ministry of Health of Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip since 2007, announced that 8,525 people, including 3,542 children, had been murdered in that Palestinian territory since the start of the war with Israel.
The war was triggered by an unprecedented attack perpetrated by the Palestinian Islamist movement (classified as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and Israel) in Israeli territory on October 7, which left more than 1,400 dead, most of them civilians. , according to reports from Israeli authorities.
Source: TSF
