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”.
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.
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,"
Israel operate on a revenge based policy. It really is not about the hostages.
This, x1000. It didn’t used to be the case, but something snapped after Oct. 7. Hostages used to be famously sacred to Israelis, but something big changed. The hostages and their families have been treated terribly by the government.
For those unaware, Israeli soldiers executed three unarmed hostages who escaped from their captors about three weeks ago because they mistook them for unarmed Palestinians. Yeah.
They were shirtless, waving a white flag, and yelling in Hebrew. The IDF killed them anyways.
At this point, the IDF has rescued -3 hostages.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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”.
Gallant said on Monday that the intense military operation in southern Gaza was nearing its end, but that without keeping up pressure, Hamas would not agree to release any more hostages.
The Israeli cabinet is deeply divided between moderates pushing for a deal to release the hostages and rightwingers who believe the military effort to “crush” Hamas should take precedence.
New details emerged in recent days of an agreement to allow medicine – such as vital prescription drugs – to reach the hostages, along with an increase in humanitarian aid into Gaza.
A diplomat briefed on the talks in Doha said the overall focus of the negotiations remained a cessation of hostilities and more aid for Gaza in return for the release of hostages, initially female, elderly and sick people, they added.
Rights groups have expressed alarm at recent detentions of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and widespread reports of their mistreatment.
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Amazed to see some people actually believe what Hamas says.
I trust the released hostages that confirm the IDF cares not whom they kill.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-troops-killed-hostages-mistaking-their-cries-help-ambush-military-2023-12-28/
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hostages-gaza-hamas-war-52fa9628e6284cdad6d7f7db6cc30742You think it might be possible that if you are held hostage you might say what you are told to say?
Here is what the released hostages say.
Hamas is the government.
This whole ‘Hamas is evil incarnate’ thing is propaganda itself. Everyone hears Hamas and thinks militant.
Hamas is the government.
The pencil pusher ministry of health dude? Hamas.
The hospital administrator? Hamas
The non doctors without borders doctors? Hamas.
This is like calling every person that was a reservist in the IDF at the festival a combatant. It’s as much of a lie.
When was the last election?
Was less than half of the population alive than?
The population of Gaza has increased 100% in the last decade.
You keep responding with sentences that are literally not related to the questions asked.
Almost like you don’t have answers that don’t sound horrifically racist.
You have yet to tell me when the last election was that made Hamas the government.
17 Years ago.
Do you believe a government starving an undesirable population is genocide?
The Guardian - Can we trust casualty figures from the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry?
In the past, the US state department’s annual human rights report indirectly relied on the same ministry’s casualty figures in quoting UN statistics drawn from Palestinian data.
Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch, said he saw no evidence that the numbers were being manipulated.
“We have been monitoring human rights abuses in the Gaza Strip for three decades, including several rounds of hostilities. We’ve generally found the data that comes out of the ministry of health to be reliable,” he said.
Where’s the fucking video?
This is the third article reporting on the video but not actually showing it.
Downvoted for bad reporting.
Here’s a link I’ve found containing part of the original video from yesterday
None of the sites which the mods here like show the videos
I’ve looked around a bit but can’t find the second video. As it claims that Hamas shows video evidence of the bodies I’m assuming that it’s a bit more hidden. If anyone is in one of those sketchy telegram channels now is your time to shine
The IDF responded with the following message:
Israel’s conduct has been absolutely deplorable and indefensible from the moment they started indiscriminately bombing civilian homes. That doesn’t make it ok to mock the deaths of innocent people, regardless of the circumstances.
I’m not mocking any deaths I’m mocking the IDF and their preposterous “bomb the hostages to safety” method
