Hamas terrorists were instructed to carry as many hostages as possible with focus on elderly and children. (Image: Reuters)
The Hamas terrorists were told to focus on abducting as many elderly and children as possible so that they can be held hostage.
Israeli authorities on Monday released a video clip showing Hamas terrorists revealing economic guarantees promised by the leadership for kidnapping hostages from Israel.
The Israel Securities Authority (ISA) shared a video which purportedly showed Hamas terrorists confessing that they were promised a stipend for taking civilian hostages from Israel to Gaza during interrogation.
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“Whoever kidnaps a hostage and brings them to Gaza is to get a stipend of USD 10,000 and an apartment,” a captured Hamas terrorist is seen confessing in the video.
News18 could not verify the authenticity of the video.
They also reveal that they were specifically told to kidnap elderly women and children. “Cleanse the houses and kidnap as many prisoners as possible,” the terrorists were reportedly ordered by their bosses.
The terrorist also revealed that when he shot an Israeli woman who was already dead his commander shouted at him for ‘wasting bullets’. “Her body was lying on the floor, I shot her too. The commander yelled at me, saying (that) I was wasting bullets on a corpse,” the terrorist said.
Hamas is holding at least 222 terrorists in Gaza City and has released four of them so far. They freed two more hostages late Monday night after abducting them from Israel on October 7. The Palestinian Islamist terrorist group freed Yocheved Lifshitz and Nurit Cooper, two elderly women, citing “compelling humanitarian” reasons.
These two women lived at the Nir Oz kibbutz and are aged 85 and 79, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said, and also thanked the Red Cross for helping them return to Israel.
They were taken to the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt and then brought back to Israel.
Israel has been told to consider holding off the planned invasion of Gaza until all hostages are released but the Israeli government is concerned that this will only allow Hamas to buy more time and prepare for a long, protracted assault.
The conflict between Israel and Hamas began on October 7 when the latter attacked Israel killing over 1,400 people, mostly civilians. Retaliatory Israeli airstrikes have wrecked large parts of Gaza City, with over 5,000 Palestinians dead.
(with inputs from ANI)
