Israel says it’s investigating a declare by Hamas {that a} feminine hostage has been killed throughout Israeli operations in northern Gaza.
The girl’s id was not revealed by Hamas, and it was unclear how or when she is claimed to have died.
The Israel Protection Forces (IDF) stated it was at present unable to “confirm or refute” the declare, however that its representatives are involved with the lady’s household.
“This night the terrorist group Hamas launched a doc by which a kidnapped girl is allegedly seen killed,” the IDF stated in a press release. “We’re checking the knowledge and at this stage we’re unable to confirm or refute it.”
Hamas claimed that communication with the lady’s captors had just lately been restored after a number of weeks, resulting in the invention of her dying.
Abu Ubeida, spokesman for Hamas’s navy wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, stated one other feminine hostage who the lady was held with had been injured and that her life was endangered.
Israeli authorities consider there are round 60 residing hostages remaining in Gaza – and the our bodies of dozens of others who’re believed to be lifeless.
Hamas is proscribed a terrorist organisation by the US, UK, and plenty of different nations.
The information got here as Israel pressed forward with its operations throughout Gaza on Saturday.
In response to the territory’s Hamas-run well being ministry, about 120 folks have been killed by Israeli airstrikes throughout the territory previously 48 hours.
Israel launched a marketing campaign to destroy Hamas in response to the group’s unprecedented assault on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, by which about 1,200 folks have been killed and 251 others have been taken hostage.
Almost 44,000 folks have been killed and greater than 104,000 injured in Gaza since then, in response to the territory’s Hamas-run well being ministry.
