Hamas also featured in the press on Saturday, claiming hostages kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists in a brutal attack on Israel on October 7. Recent hostage video died.
The terrorist organization announced in a video released on Saturday that Nadav Popplewell, who was abducted from Kibbutz Nirim in southern Israel, died from injuries sustained during an Israeli airstrike on Gaza.
News of Mr Popplewell’s death comes as Hamas released another undated video showing a 51-year-old man apparently being beaten, the latest in a series of hostage propaganda films shared by the terror group. Announced hours later.
The video showed Popplewell standing in front of a white wall with a large bruise over his right eye.
In a second video, Hamas said that last month an Israeli missile struck where British national Popplewell was being held along with a female hostage.
Hamas spokesman Abu Ubaydah said: “The death was due to lack of intensive care in medical facilities as the enemy destroyed hospitals in the Gaza Strip.”
The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the second video. The government has previously denied some Hamas claims that hostages were killed in Israeli attacks.
Popplewell was kidnapped along with her mother, Chana Peri, in the southern Israeli community during the October 7 attack on the Jewish state, which killed 1,200 people and took another 250 hostages.
Popplewell’s older brother was killed in the surprise attack.
Peri was one of 24 hostages freed on November 24 as part of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.
The rescue of an estimated 128 remaining hostages and the removal of Hamas from Gaza is underway in the Palestinian territory, including a ground offensive in the southernmost city of Rafah that continued on Saturday despite criticism from the United States and other allies. is the center of Israeli military operations.
On Saturday, the Israeli Defense Forces scaled up evacuation order Additional areas of Rafah were also targeted as the country prepares to expand military operations into the city’s densely populated centres.
IDF too Warn residents In northern Gaza, including Jabalia and surrounding enclaves, it said Hamas terrorists had regrouped there and directed them to flee west of Gaza City.
According to the Israeli military, about 300,000 people have evacuated from Rafah and are heading towards Almawasi.
Rafah, which borders Egypt, has served as a 25-square-mile safe haven for more than 1 million displaced Palestinians during the bloody seven-month conflict.
Saturday’s latest evacuation order came as internationally mediated ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Gaza to free the hostages appeared to be stalling.
On Friday, Hamas official Khalil al-Haya claimed that the terrorist group seeks peace, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeks to prolong the war.
“Hamas did not cease operations or withdraw.” [ceasefire] negotiation. The occupation opposed the mediator’s proposal,” Al Haya told Al Arabi TV.
Hamas insisted on negotiating a ceasefire would have to completely redo it After Israel rejected the proposal of international mediators.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration late Friday A report has been published Israel said it may have violated international humanitarian law by using U.S.-supplied weapons during military operations in Gaza.
But in its strongest criticism yet of Israel, the administration refused to provide definitive findings, saying it could not confirm any specific instances in which the Jewish state might have used weapons in alleged violations. I refrained.
In other developments:
- The United Nations appears to have relied on Hamas’ health ministry and media office in Gaza to halve the number of Palestinian women and children it says have died in the ongoing war with Israel, The Times reported. Of Israel newspaper reported. report.
- The United States has pledged to veto a United Nations resolution calling for Palestine to be admitted to the international body. This strong commitment came after the General Assembly resolution was passed with overwhelming support that Palestine was eligible for membership.
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