The Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, held Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responsible for the death of Israeli hostages on September 1. The Hamas statement came after Israeli forces said on September 1 that they found bodies of six hostages in a tunnel in RafahThe Al-Qassam Brigades accused “enemy forces of deliberately killing many prisoners and recovering their bodies,” according to Saba news. “What kind of heroism is this? And you are retrieving them as corpses after deliberately killing them,” the Palestinian armed group said. “They were indeed alive, and were supposed to be released in the first phase of the deal,” Hamas said while referring to the 6 hostages whose bodies IDF said it recovered.
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