The terrorist organization Hamas has released a video showing three elderly Israeli hostages alive in the Gaza Strip. The video, released yesterday by the Essedin al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, shows three bearded men sitting on chairs and is titled “We will not grow old here”.
One of the hostages calls on the Israeli government to do everything possible to secure his release. The US government says it is working on a new agreement to release the hostages. “But I cannot say that we are at a point where another agreement is imminent,” National Security Council Communications Director John Kirby said today in Washington.
A possible agreement should also include a ceasefire and humanitarian aid. “We are literally working on this issue every day, locally and here in Washington.”
According to Israeli estimates, around 110 hostages are currently detained in the Gaza Strip. Hamas is also not releasing the bodies of several kidnapped people.
Hostages wrote SOS on cloths
Following the mistaken murder of three hostages late last week, the Israeli army has released more details about the incident in northern Gaza. There were cloths on a nearby building that read “SOS” and “Help, three hostages” in Hebrew.
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