Hamas claims two Israeli captives killed in Gaza air strikes
Al Jazeera
Israeli military spokesman rejects Hamas claim that the two hostages were killed by Israeli bombing.
The armed wing of the Palestinian group Hamas has released a video purporting to show the dead bodies of two Israeli captives it claims were killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza.
The video, released by the Qassam Brigades on Monday, shows three Israeli captives speaking to the camera, likely under duress.
In the first part of the unverified video, a female captive identified by Israeli media as Noa Argamani, 26, and two male captives urge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the assault on Gaza, according to a translation provided by the armed group.
In the second part, Argamani said that the two men captives were killed “because of our own [Israeli] air strikes”. The video ends purporting to show the dead bodies of the two captives. It was not clear when the video was taken.
In a statement released with the video, the Qassam Brigades said the two men were killed in “the Zionist army’s bombing”.
