2023-10-16 23:20:09
05:44 PM
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has announced that it intends to release all foreign hostages held captive in the Gaza Strip since the October 7 incursion into Israeli territory.
He has also estimated the number of Hamas hostages at 200, while other Palestinian militias would have regarding 50 prisoners.
“Foreign prisoners are our guests and will be released when conditions allow. We urge all countries in the world to warn their compatriots not to participate in the enemy army,” said the spokesman for the Ezedin al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, Abu Obeida.
Abu Obeida has explained that the prisoner figures are not concrete because there are “practical and security difficulties” that prevent an exhaustive count, although there would be 200 under the control of Hamas and another 50 in the hands of other “factions of the resistance, in other places.”
Regarding a possible Israeli ground military intervention, the spokesman for the armed group stressed that “it does not scare us.” “We are ready for it,” he noted in a televised speech.
Biden, attentive to the situation
The events come 24 hours following US President Joe Biden said that any move by Israel to reoccupy the Gaza Strip might be a “big mistake.”
As part of its military response to the October 7 attack by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, Israel declared war on that group with a relentless bombing campaign and warned more than a million people in northern Gaza to move south before of the ground operation.
Hamas “does not represent all of the Palestinian people,” Biden added. But invading and “ending the extremists” is a “necessary requirement,” the president added.
Hamas carried out its attack with militants who crossed the heavily fortified border and killed more than 1,400 people, most of them civilians, with shooting, stabbing and fire.
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