Hamas says seven captives killed in Israeli military bombing of Gaza | Israel Warfare on Gaza Information

The group’s army wing confirms the information after an investigation though it doesn’t state when the captives died.

The army wing of the Palestinian group Hamas says seven extra captives held within the Gaza Strip have died because of Israel’s bombardment of the besieged enclave.

Abu Obeida, the spokesperson for Hamas’s Qassam Brigades, made the assertion on the Telegram app on Friday.

The group mentioned it confirmed the information following investigations carried out over the previous few weeks after it had misplaced contact with the fighters who had been holding the captives.

Hamas seized about 250 Israelis and foreigners throughout its October 7 assaults on southern Israel, of whom about 130 are believed to nonetheless be held captive.

The Qassam Brigades mentioned three of the captives talked about in Friday’s assertion had been recognized, but it surely didn’t make clear when the seven had died.

The group mentioned the overall variety of captives killed because of Israeli army operations “might have exceeded” 70.

‘Second precedence’ for Israel

The deaths of the captives present that Israel’s authorities considers them a “secondary precedence”, Omar Ashour, a professor of safety and army research on the Doha Institute for Graduate Research, instructed Al Jazeera.

“The [Israeli military’s] first precedence is to destroy the armed wing of Hamas and the opposite Palestinian factions, to undermine them in any approach, even when it prices the lives of a number of the hostages,” Ashour mentioned.

Friday’s reported deaths additionally point out that Israel’s conflict technique will not be reaching its goals, he mentioned, including: “We’re within the 147th day of the conflict, and there are increasingly more hostages dying, nearly all of them by Israeli hearth.”

Throughout a Qatari-mediated weeklong truce in November, 105 captives had been launched in change for 150 Palestinian girls and youngsters held in Israeli prisons.

“The one strategy to launch the hostages safely is the way in which it was carried out earlier than – by some form of negotiations. The Israeli authorities is aware of that/ … They only don’t need to admit it,” Ashour mentioned.

Truce talks ongoing

Israel’s conflict on Gaza has killed a minimum of 30,228 Palestinians, in response to the Gaza Ministry of Well being. The loss of life toll in Israel from the October 7 assaults stands at 1,139.

Egyptian, Qatari and United States mediators are at the moment scrambling to lock down a brand new truce.

In phone talks on Thursday, the three nations’ leaders set out what a ceasefire deal may appear like, the White Home mentioned.

“The leaders underscored that the discharge of hostages would end in a right away and sustained ceasefire in Gaza over a interval of a minimum of six weeks,” the White Home mentioned.

Nonetheless, Israel’s Walla information website, citing a senior Israeli official, reported that Israel has instructed Egypt and Qatar that it’s going to not proceed with ceasefire negotiations till Hamas sends it a listing of Israeli captives who stay alive within the Gaza Strip.

The official mentioned Israel can also be in search of a “critical reply” from Hamas on the variety of Palestinian prisoners it’s requesting be launched as a part of a possible deal, Walla reported.