During an interview with the American press, a spokesperson for Hamas, a Palestinian movement engaged in a war against Israel, assured that he was unaware of the number of Israeli hostages still alive in Gaza.
The fate of Israeli hostages held in Gaza is still unknown. Osama Hamdan, spokesperson and member of the Hamas political bureau, said in an interview with CNN that he did not know the number of captives still alive in the Palestinian enclave.
” I’ve no idea. Nobody has the slightest idea,” he said in this interview conducted from Beirut, Lebanon, in an office decorated with a large map of Gazan territory and a photo of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. .
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Hostages who died during an operation to free them?
Of 251 people kidnapped, 116 are still held hostage in Gaza, and 41 are dead, according to the Israeli army. On Saturday June 8, Israel proudly announced the release of four hostages during a military operation in Nuseirat, in the center of the enclave under blockade by the Jewish state since 2007.
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But to our American colleagues, Osama Hamdan assured that this IDF operation had led to the death of three other hostages, including an American citizen. At this time, the Israeli army has neither refuted nor confirmed this information.
On October 7, a “ reaction against the occupation »
In response to the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 – causing nearly 1,200 victims – the Israeli army launched a large-scale offensive in Gaza which left 37,232 dead, including 30 in the last 24 hours, the majority civilians, according to data from the Gaza government’s health ministry.
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Asked about this attack in the fall, the Hamas official told CNN that it was a “reaction against the occupation”. “The person responsible for this situation is the occupation [israélienne]. If you resist the occupation, (they) will kill you, if you do not resist the occupation, (they) will also kill you and expel you from your country. So what are we supposed to do, just wait? “, he replied.
