by Emanuel Fabian at The Times of Israel
IDF chief meets with worried families, assures them fighting will bring home captives; Jon Polin in message to PM: Enough with the paranoid TikTok videos, bring back the hostages
The Hamas terror group said in a statement Friday that it will not move living Israeli hostages out of areas in the Gaza Strip that the IDF has ordered to be evacuated in recent days, saying the Israeli government will be at fault if captives are killed.
The IDF has issued evacuation orders for the entire Rafah area, Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood, and other areas in the Strip’s north, some two and a half weeks after resuming fighting amid the collapse of a hostage-truce deal.
“Half of the living Israeli prisoners are located in areas which the Israeli occupation army has requested to be evacuated in recent days,” claimed Hudhaifa Kahlout — known by the nom de guerre Abu Obeida — the spokesman for Hamas’s military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades.
“We have decided not to transfer these prisoners from these areas, and to keep them under strict security measures, which are extremely dangerous to their lives,” Abu Obeida said in his statement, which was issued in Arabic, Hebrew, and English.
He added that…
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