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submitted 10 months ago by Linkerbaan@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

Hamas has released a video announcing the death of two Israeli hostages and claimed that they were killed by Israeli airstrikes.

The video showed a female hostage named in Israeli media as Noa Argamani, 26, speaking under duress, revealing that two men she was held captive with had been killed in captivity. It was not clear when or where the video was filmed and there was no independent confirmation of Hamas’s claims.

The three hostages were shown in a 37-second Hamas video released on Sunday in which the group urged the Israeli government to halt its aerial and ground offensive and bring about their release. The undated clip ended with the caption: “Tomorrow [Monday] we will inform you of their fate.”

In a statement released with the new video, Hamas’s armed wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam brigades, said the two men, believed to be Yossi Sharabi, 53, and Itay Svirsky, 38, had been killed in “the Zionist army’s bombing”.

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[-] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 45 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

IDF is an army of amateurs with expensive gear. Just read that article of the BBC about the women who were watching the Gaza border. The IDF only gave young women that job and didn’t even arm them. Then when these young women reported suspicious Hamas activity along the border for months on end the warnings were ignored basically because they were young and female. Of course when Hamas broke trough they were the first to get killed.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 53 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This reminded me of what the released hostages from a month ago said:

Freed Israeli hostages held by Hamas were terrified IDF airstrikes would kill them

"We were in tunnels, terrified that it would not be Hamas, but Israel, that would kill us, and then they would say Hamas killed you,"

Another released israeli hostage:

"The reality is that I was in a hideout that was bombed, and we became wounded refugees. This doesn't even include the helicopter that fired at us on our way to Gaza,"

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