Hamas has instructed its soldiers holding hostages to be executed if the Israeli army attacks them.
Abu Obeda, a spokesman for the group, said the move followed what it called the “Nusirat incident” in June, in which Israeli special forces rescued four hostages from two apartments in Gaza.
He said that “new instructions were issued” on how to deal with the hostages in case the Israeli army approached their location.
“Netanyahu’s insistence on freeing captives through military pressure instead of making a deal means returning their families in coffins. Their families must choose: either dead or alive,” he added.
The militant group released a statement with a propaganda video of 24-year-old hostage Aden Yerushalmi, who was kidnapped on October 7, and Six hostages were executed by Hamas in the Gaza tunnel In the last week.
All six were shot dead by the terrorists in Gaza before their bodies were found by the Israeli army.
Yerushalmi pleaded in the Hamas video Benjamin NetanyahuPrime Minister of Israel, from Make a deal with Hamas To release all hostages.
She reminded him of a 2011 deal to free Israeli hostages in exchange for more than 1,000 convicted Palestinian terrorists.
“I want to address my beloved family, whom I love and miss very much. Mom, Dad, Shani, May — I love you so much and I miss you,” Yerushalmi said.
The video released on Monday may have been intended to taunt Yerushalmi’s family, who buried her the same day.
The killing of the six hostages sparked a general strike in Israel on Monday during which thousands of protesters took to the streets.
They wanted to put Pressure on Mr. Netanyahu’s government Agreeing to a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal with Hamas.
In a televised press conference, the Prime Minister apologized to the families of the slain hostages.
He apologized to them as “we did not manage to bring them back alive. We were close, but we didn’t make it.
He also promised that Hamas would “pay a very heavy price” for killing the hostages.
The Israeli military announced Tuesday morning that fighter jets struck a compound in Gaza City where it said eight senior Hamas members were working, including Ahmed Fawzi Nazar Muhammad Wadia, the commander of Hamas’ special Nukhba forces.
The IDF claimed that Wadia “invaded the Israeli community of Nativ Hasra using a paraglider on October 7 and took command of the massacre of civilians perpetrated by Hamas militants in the community.”
Wadia “drank cola inside the Tassa family home while watching Gil Tassa’s children, who survived the carnage after terrorists killed their father on October 7”, the IDF added.
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