Israeli army releases tunnel footage of ‘their final moments’

“They were heroes who survived terrible prison conditions [jusqu’à ce qu’ils soient] “assassinated,” said Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, a spokesman for the army.

Very difficult detention conditions. The Israeli army unveiled, on Tuesday, September 10, images of the tunnel in which it says it found six hostage bodies. “assassinated by Hamas” about ten days ago in the southern Gaza Strip. This tunnel, measured about 80 centimeters wide, 120 meters long and located 20 meters underground, in Khan Younis, according to Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, spokesman for the army.

“They were heroes who survived terrible prison conditions [jusqu’à ce qu’ils soient] “murdered”he assured. In the tunnel, the army camera shows scattered mattresses, bottles and buckets for the hostages’ needs.

Admiral Hagari, his hands gloved, presents among various objects on the ground a chess set, an automatic rifle magazine, an electric charger “used by terrorists”a copy of the Koran, bullet casings “having perhaps served” to kill the hostages. “We see traces of blood here”the officer says, pointing to a dark puddle at the exact spot where they “lived their last moments.”

The army is going “hunt down the terrorists who killed the six hostages: Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Alexander Lobanov, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Ori Danino and Almog Sarusi”he added. After the announcement of the return of the hostages’ bodies, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said they had been “executed” of a “bullet in the neck”.

The Hostages’ Families Forum responded to the Israeli army’s images by demanding that the authorities immediately return their loved ones, insisting that “the responsibility of the Prime Minister and his ministers in the fate of our hostages.” The hostages “They are suffering, hungry, exhausted, tortured, without air to breathe and the only thing that gives them hope is knowing that we will continue to fight to demand their release.”the Forum wrote in a press release.