Family members of several hostages who are set to be released from Gaza in the coming weeks expressed dread over their loved ones’ fates on Tuesday after Hamas conveyed information saying that eight of those 33 hostages are dead.
Following the release of the information those families were informed by the military that Hamas’s information aligned with previous military assessments and there were dire concerns about their fates.
Hamas provided a list — reportedly only numbers, without names — reporting how many of the hostages from among the 33 to be released in the first phase of the ongoing ceasefire are alive. Hamas was required to provide information about the hostages’ status as part of its obligations under the deal with Israel signed earlier this month
The hostages’ family members confirmed that Gal Hirsh, the government point man on hostages, had reached out to them in recent days and said that while the terror group’s information was incomplete, it lined up with the assessment of Israel’s intelligence services.
“It’s not exactly data. It’s Hamas saying [the number of] ‘alive,’ ‘released,’ and ‘dead,'” specified Yizhar Lifshitz, whose father Oded Lifshitz, 84, is on the list of the initial 33 to be released.
“There’s a grave concern for his life after this last indication,” the hostage’s son said, speaking to the Ynet news outlet. “The last sign of life for him was on Day 25.”
On that day, Lifshitz said, “he was alive, with someone from the kibbutz, [being held] in the same apartment, but he didn’t feel well. They took him, and he’s basically disappeared since then, from us and probably from Hamas too. It doesn’t bode well.”
Hamas terrorists kidnapped Oded Lifshitz, along with his wife Yocheved Lifshitz, from Kibbutz Nir Oz, during the terror group’s October 7, 2023 cross-border onslaught, which started the war. His wife was released after 20 days in captivity.
Danny Elgarat, whose brother Itzik Elgarat is also among those slated for release, angrily told a Knesset committee on Tuesday, “my brother was left to die,” citing Hamas’s document.
2 comments:
As stated I'm waiting for the resumption of the Abraham Accords. All other non-nuclear foreign policy amounts to lemonjello. I remember February 24, 2020 when the UN Security Council led by the US effectively backhanded Israel by supporting a two-state solution followed by calls to honor UN resolutions 242, 338 and 2336. Chaos ensued ending with a Joe Biden presidency. In summary, Trump needs to read and comprehend the OT books of Zechariah and Joel before it's too late.
JNS - Witkoff meets with Abbas adviser in Riyadh. "The meeting was also set amid the Trump administration’s efforts to finalize Israeli normalization with Saudi Arabia, which will help create a path toward a Palestinian state." In summary, Trump's two-state solution has come quickly like a flood. “And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined" (Daniel 9:26 KJV). "Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it" (Churchill). IMHO - rapture imminent, followed by the arrival of the two witnesses, the setup of 10 kingdoms and the confirmation of the Daniel 9:27 covenant.
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