Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to “settle the score” with Hamas after the navy had recovered the our bodies of six hostages from a Gaza tunnel.
“Those who kill hostages do not want an agreement” for a Gaza truce, Netanyahu stated in a press release, telling Hamas leaders that “we will hunt you down, we will catch you and we will settle the score”.
Netanyahu stated that Israel was “fighting on all fronts against a cruel enemy who wants to murder us all”, mentioning a taking pictures assault close to the town of Hebron within the occupied West Bank earlier on Sunday that killed three cops.
Hamas has not claimed the assault however in a press release known as it a “heroic operation by the resistance”.
According to Netanyahu, “the fact that Hamas continues to commit atrocities such as those it committed on October 7 obliges us to do everything we can to ensure that it can no longer do so”, referring to the Palestinian group’s unprecedented assault on southern Israel that triggered the continuing struggle within the Gaza Strip.
A senior Hamas official stated that a number of of the six hostages discovered useless had been “approved” for launch within the occasion of a truce deal, which has but to be finalised regardless of months of mediation efforts.
“Some of the names of the captives announced as found by the (Israeli) occupier… were part of the list of hostages to be released that Hamas had approved” in a proposed trade for Palestinian prisoners held in Israel, the official advised AFP on situation of anonymity as a result of he was not authorised to talk publicly on the difficulty.
Israeli media reported that US-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin and two others whose our bodies had been recovered from Gaza — Carmel Gat and Eden Yerushalmi — had been accepted by Hamas to be launched within the occasion of a truce deal.
The Hamas official stated the six captives have been “killed by the occupation’s fire and bombing”, an accusation denied by the Israeli navy.
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Military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani in a web based briefing with journalists that “according to our initial assessment, they were brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists”.
“We do know they were murdered by Hamas terrorists. We do know -– I can tell you -– there was no real-time fire engagement in the tunnel,” Shoshani stated.
Claims by Hamas that the hostages have been killed by Israeli forces have been “psychological warfare”, he stated.
The our bodies have been present in a tunnel within the southern metropolis of Rafah, round one kilometre (0.6 miles) away from the place troops had rescued alive one other hostage, Kaid Farhan Alkadi, on Tuesday, in accordance with Shoshani.