Hamas has threatened that it will execute hostages taken from Israel on Saturday on live TV if Israel attacks Gaza without warning.
“From this moment on, we announce that any targeting innocent civilians without warning will be met, regretfully to say, by executing one of the hostages in our custody. And we will be forced to broadcast this execution. We regret this decision,” a Hamas spokesman said in a video from Aljezeera, posted on X, formerly Twitter, by Greg Price.
BREAKING: A spokesperson for Hamas just said that they are going to start executing civilian hostages they took from Israel on live TV for every IDF airstrike that hits a civilian in Gaza, which happens as a result of Hamas using them as human shields.
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— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 9, 2023
According to the Times of Israel, which cited Gaza’s Shehab news outlet as its source, a representative of Hamas’s Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, who goes by Abu Obeida, said, “From this hour, any targeting of our people in the safety of their homes, without warning, will be met with the execution of civilian hostages, which will be broadcast with video and