Jerusalem, Feb 12 (EFE). – The armed wing of Hamas, the Ezedin al-Qasem Brigades, announced on Monday the death of three more Israeli hostages as a result of serious injuries they allegedly sustained during recent Israeli army attacks on the Gaza Strip.
The three fatal victims were part of a group of eight captives who were seriously wounded in recent days, the Brigades said.
On Sunday, the armed wing of the Islamist group claimed that two Israeli hostages had been killed and eight others seriously injured in the past four days as a result of Israeli army attacks on the Gaza Strip.
“The continuous Zionist bombardment of the Gaza Strip during the past 96 hours resulted in the death of two prisoners and the serious injury of eight others,” a brief statement by the Al-Qassem Brigades said.
“We will postpone the announcement of the names and pictures of the dead for the coming days until the fate of the remaining wounded becomes clear,” the group said in a statement.
It also specified that the situation of the wounded is ” becoming more dangerous in light of the inability to provide them with proper treatment.
According to the latest information from Israel, 130 hostages remain in the Gaza Strip, of whom about 28 are believed to be dead.
Early Monday morning, Israel rescued alive two hostages held in a building in the heart of Rafah, home to some 1.4 million displaced people in the southern tip of the Gaza Strip, amid heavy shelling that killed dozens of Gazans.
The hostages are Argentinian-Israelis Fernando Simon Marman, 61, and Norberto Luis Har, 70, brothers-in-law, both of whom were kidnapped along with other family members from Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak near the enclave on Oct. 7.
This is the second successful hostage rescue achieved by Israel after the soldier Ori Megidish recovered alive at the end of October when the ground operation in the Gaza Strip began. EFE
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