Hamas warned on Sunday that none of the hostages kidnapped during the October 7 attack and still held in the Gaza Strip would leave “alive” without negotiation and without “responding to the demands” of the Palestinian movement.
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“Neither the fascist enemy and its arrogant leadership, nor its supporters, will be able to recover their prisoners alive without an exchange and negotiation, and without meeting the demands of the resistance,” said Abou Obeida, the spokesperson, in a video. of the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement.
Before shattering on the 1ster December, a week of truce allowed the release of 105 hostages held in the Gaza Strip, including 80 Israeli hostages exchanged for 240 Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons.
Qatar, which had mediated between Hamas and Israel, indicated that efforts remained underway to conclude a new truce and release new hostages, while stressing that the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip “narrowed the prospect” of success.
AFP
Israel – which has never published a list – indicated that 137 hostages remain held in the Gaza Strip, where its army is leading an all-out offensive, marked in particular by intensive shelling – from the air, the sea, the sky – of the small, overpopulated territory, governed by Hamas since 2007.
Around 240 hostages were forcibly taken to the Gaza Strip by Palestinian fighters during their unprecedented attack on October 7 in southern Israel, killing around 1,200 people, mostly civilians.
Abou Obeida affirmed that the fight would continue against the Israeli forces, whose military operations in the Gaza Strip have already caused, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health, nearly 18,000 deaths, mainly women, children and adolescents.
“We have no choice but to fight this barbaric occupier, in every neighborhood, street or alley,” he said, “the Holocaust the enemy is carrying out aims to break the strength of our resistance (…) but we are waging a holy battle on our land.”
AFP