Hamas has issued a new video purporting to show the bodies of two Israeli hostages, with the militants claiming that they died in air strikes on Gaza. It comes a day after Hamas released another video of the hostages when they were alive, but warning they could die if Israel continued its bombardment.
Israel denied they were killed by strikes. Its defence minister accused the militants of “psychological abuse”. He added that military pressure was essential to release more hostages.
The video released on Monday shows a woman named as Noa Argamani, speaking under duress and saying that two men with whom she had been held had been killed in captivity.
She says the men – one of whom was identified as Itay Svirsky, 38 – were killed by “our own IDF strikes”, referring to the Israel Defense Forces.
She added that they were buried under rubble after the strikes, but that Hamas fighters had “succeeded in saving my life”.
Credit: bbc.com
