Hamas’s armed wing stated Saturday an Israeli lady taken hostage throughout the October 2023 assault had been killed in a fight zone in northern Gaza and the Israeli army stated it was investigating.
Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades spokesman Abu Obeida stated contact had been restored with the lady’s captors after a break of a number of weeks and it was established that the hostage had been killed in an space of north Gaza the place the Israeli military has been working.
Abu Obeida’s assertion didn’t additional determine the hostage or say how or when she was killed.
The Israeli military informed AFP it was wanting into the declare.
Abu Obeida stated that the lady had been held with a second feminine hostage whose life was in peril.
Throughout final yr’s Hamas assault which triggered the Gaza conflict, militants took 251 hostages, of whom 97 are nonetheless held in Gaza, together with 34 the military says are lifeless.
Ten feminine hostages, together with 5 troopers, have been believed to stay alive in custody earlier than Abu Obeida’s assertion, in response to an AFP tally.
Throughout a one-week truce in November final yr, 105 hostages have been freed, together with 80 Israelis who have been exchanged for 240 Palestinian prisoners.
The Israeli authorities has come beneath immense public strain to agree a brand new deal to deliver the remaining hostages house whereas they’re nonetheless alive.
The Hostage and Lacking Households Discussion board marketing campaign group didn’t want to touch upon Saturday’s declare.
“Nothing is thought aside from what Hamas is saying. Our solely dependable supply is the Israeli military,” the group informed AFP.
Hamas’s assault on October 7 final yr resulted within the deaths of 1,206 individuals, most of them civilians, in response to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.
Israel’s retaliatory marketing campaign has killed 44,176 individuals in Gaza, in response to figures from the Hamas-run territory’s well being ministry that the United Nations considers dependable.
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