HAMAS has released photos of a hostage it claims a guard recently killed, only for the Israeli man’s body to have been recovered last year.
Shameless Hamas has posted the twisted “psychological warfare” image after it revealed Monday one of its guards had gunned down a prisoner.
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Hamas’ murder claim on Monday was light on details, with the group yesterday posting a photo of the hostage who had supposedly died – 27-year-old Ofir Tzarfati.
But, Ofir was instead shot and wounded when he was kidnapped from the Supernova music festival on October 7.
On November 27, the IDF declared he was dead with his body being recovered from Gaza on December 1, the Times of Israel reported.
A new photo released by Hamas as part of their claim shows Ofir’s bloodied body in a white sheet with the caption: “an unfortunate incident!”
The image also claims: “Your brutality has become an imminent danger to your prisoners”.
His mother has blasted Hamas’ actions using the image of her son as “deplorable psychological warfare”.
Richelle Tzarfati said in a statement: “I am choosing not to look at the photo Hamas published and to remember Ofir as he was — a perfect, handsome, smiling, happy man, and not like Hamas decided to do today via deplorable psychological warfare.”
Hamas launched an investigation into the killing and said the guard had killed Ofir in a “vengeful manner”.
Spokesperson Abu Obaida said the killing didn’t represent the group’s “ethics”.
A statement read: “After investigating the killing of an enemy prisoner by his guard, it was found that the guard assigned to him acted in a vengeful manner contrary to instructions after receiving news of the martyrdom of his two children in one of the enemy’s massacres.”
The post comes as last chance ceasefire talks started yesterday in Doha, Qatar.
Hamas has refused to meet its counterparts, but intermediaries from Egypt and Qatar are in close contact with the terror group and it is still hoped they can push them into agreement.
In a statement on Monday, Hamas posted about the ‘new’ death but did not not say who it was or when they had died.
They only claimed the hostage had been killed by a guard and blamed Israel for it.
Spokesperson Obaida said: “The enemy government (Israel) bears full responsibility for these massacres and the resulting reactions that affect the lives of Zionist prisoners.”
The IDF said it had no “intelligence” about the alleged killing at the time.
Obaida also threatened to execute Israeli hostages and release footage of the killings at the beginning of the war.
Israel has previously dismissed Hamas’ statements on the deaths of hostages as psychological warfare.
Mum Richelle also said: “What’s important today is for the developing deal to be implemented successfully.
“There are 115 hostages who must return home—the living for rehabilitation and the deceased for proper Jewish burial.
“What’s important today is that the team succeeds and does everything possible to return home with a deal. Everyone needs to come back home, every single person. And now.”
Hamas’ threat comes as Iran is set to strike Israel following the killing of Hamas’ political leader and the October 7 mastermind.
The coming bombardment is expected to be even bigger than when the Ayatollah tried to blitz Israel with an unprecedented missile and drone blitz back on April 13.
The Israel-Hamas war
By Ellie Doughty, Foreign News Reporter
IN the 10 months since Hamas attacked Israel in October 2023, waves of conflict have broken out across the Middle East.
Some 1,200 Israelis and foreigners were killed and 250 taken hostage in the hideous ambush.
115 hostages are believed to still be in Gaza, including 41 whose deaths have been confirmed by the Israeli authorities.
Israel has repeatedly vowed to wipe out every member of Hamas despite civilian collateral in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas claims some 40,000 have died in Gaza – and the IDF say they have killed 15,000 terrorists since October 7.
Most of the Strip has also been destroyed by the fighting and airstrikes, reportedly displacing some two million people from their homes.
Some Israelis have pushed against Netanyahu’s regime for a deal that will see the 115 hostages who remain in Gaza alive returned home with protests in Tel Aviv.
Israel is also facing a fresh wave of conflict with Iran and its various other puppet proxies in the region, namely Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen.
Civilians across the region are at risk from the fighting, particularly in Gaza and Lebanon.
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