According to a statement released by Al-Qassam Brigades, the military branch of Hamas, at least 13 hostages taken by the group were killed by the Israeli airstrikes on Gaza last night.
According to a press release al-Qassam published to The New Arab, “foreigners and Israelis were killed by the intense Israeli attacks in northern Gaza and inside Gaza City during the past 24 hours.”
According to the statement, six of the hostages were killed by indiscriminate Israeli airstrikes in the northern Gaza Strip, and seven others were slain by separate Israeli raids in different parts of Gaza City.
According to the Israeli military, it killed activists and attacked 750 locations in the Gaza Strip last night, including underground Hamas tunnels, military sites, official homes, weapons storage, and communication rooms.
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With regard to captured troops and civilians, it is well known that the Israeli army adheres to a contentious policy known as the “Hannibal Doctrine.” After the Israeli army was repeatedly taken prisoner in Lebanon by resistance organisations, forcing Israel to engage in prisoner exchanges, it was first implemented in 1986.
An excerpt from the doctrine, which was shared in 2014 by Israeli groups, reads, “During a kidnapping, the main task becomes to rescue our soldiers from the abductors, even at the cost of harming or injuring our soldiers.” The complete text of the doctrine was published in 2003.
According to the besieged territory’s health ministry, Israeli bombing in Gaza has resulted in 1,537 Palestinian deaths and 6,612 injuries. 500 kids are among the dead.
