The military wing of the Palestinian Hamas “estimated” on Thursday that “nearly fifty” Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip have been killed by Israeli strikes since the war began on October 7.
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“The Qassam Brigades estimates that the number of Zionist hostages killed in the Gaza Strip due to Zionist bombings and massacres is nearly fifty,” the Palestinian Islamist group said in a message on Telegram, a claim that could not be independently verified .