{"id":409728,"date":"2024-01-16T00:53:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2024\/01\/16\/hamas-says-2-israeli-hostages-killed-in-gaza-bombing-releases-video\/"},"modified":"2024-01-16T00:53:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T00:53:00","slug":"hamas-says-2-israeli-hostages-killed-in-gaza-bombing-releases-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2024\/01\/16\/hamas-says-2-israeli-hostages-killed-in-gaza-bombing-releases-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas Says 2 Israeli Hostages Killed In Gaza Bombing, Releases Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Palestinian Hamas group on Monday released a new video announcing the death of two Israeli hostages who were taken to Gaza on October 7.<\/p>\n

The video showed a woman hostage named as Noa Argamani, 26, speaking under duress, revealing that two men she was held captive with had been killed.<\/p>\n

It was not clear when the video was taken.<\/p>\n

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🚨 BREAKING: HAMAS ANSWER THEIR GUESSING GAME VIDEO<\/p>\n

The latest update from Hamas claims that two of the three hostages featured in their previous video are dead as a result of the Israeli bombing of Gaza.<\/p>\n

The surviving hostage, Noa Argamani: “Stop this madness and bring us home\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/HyQhthVuO7<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hamas had released another video on Sunday showing Argamani along with two hostages who were seen alive.<\/p>\n

The pair — widely named in the media as Yossi Sharabi, 53, and Itay Svirsky, 38 — were the same men announced as having been killed in Monday’s video.<\/p>\n

In a statement released with Monday’s video, Hamas’s armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, said the two men were killed in “the Zionist army’s bombing”.<\/p>\n

Israel’s army called Hamas’s release of the video a “brutal use of innocent hostages”.<\/p>\n

Military spokesman Daniel Hagari rejected Hamas’s claim the hostages, including Svirsky, were killed by Israeli forces.<\/p>\n

“This is a lie by Hamas,” he said.<\/p>\n

“The building in which they were kept was not a target and it was not attacked by our forces,” Hagari told reporters.<\/p>\n

But he added: “We know that we hit targets near the location where they were held” and an investigation is underway.<\/p>\n

It is “examining the pictures that Hamas is disseminating, alongside additional information that we have,” Hagari said.<\/p>\n

In the unprecedented October 7 attack that triggered the Israel-Hamas war, Hamas seized about 250 hostages, 132 of whom Israeli officials say remain in Gaza, including at least 25 believed to have been killed.<\/p>\n

Last month the military announced that soldiers killed three hostages by mistake, believing they posed a threat.<\/p>\n

On Sunday Abu Obeida, a spokesman for Hamas’s armed wing, said many of the hostages are likely to have been killed recently.<\/p>\n

“The enemy’s leadership and army bear full responsibility,” he said.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the video’s release on Monday, Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told a news conference that Hamas was applying “psychological pressure” to the families of the hostages.<\/p>\n

The army was helping the families, he said, and keeping them up to date with any developments.<\/p>\n

“Hamas has been hit hard by the IDF (military),” he said.<\/p>\n

“What’s left for it is to touch a sensitive nerve in Israeli society through acts of psychological abuse against the family members.”<\/p>\n

Ruling out any ceasefire in Gaza, Gallant reiterated that the only way to get the hostages back home was by continuing to apply “military pressure”.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, he said, “nobody will talk to us” and we “will not succeed in reaching any agreements.”<\/p>\n

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