AN ISRAELI hostage has been killed after his Hamas captor brutally shot him.
The prisoner’s two guards opened fire on him and mercilessly killed him, the spokesperson for Hamas’ armed wing, al-Qassam Brigades, said.
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He also said two other women captives were seriously wounded in a separate incident and that attempts were being made to save their lives.
Abu Ubaida, the spokesperson, said a committee has been formed to investigate what happened in both incidents.
It is not yet clear who the dead man is or why the guards opened fire, but the spokesperson blamed Israel without proof.
Israeli Defence Force spokesman Daniel Hagari said they had no intelligence on the claimed death.
He said: “We continue to check and find out the reliability of the message and will update as soon as possible with any information we have.”
Obeida threatened to execute Israeli hostages and release footage of the killings, at the beginning of the war.
Israel has previously dismissed Hamas’s statements on the deaths of hostages as psychological warfare.
The IDF says 74 Israeli hostages are still held by Hamas 10 months after the terror group snatched them in their October 7 attack.
Tragically, the group is also thought to hold the bodies of 41 dead hostages.
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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