HAMAS has given chilling orders to kill its remaining 60 Israeli hostages in Gaza should IDF troops close in, the terror group revealed.
The brutal instructions come as the twisted terrorists released a sick new video of one of its murdered captives, Ori Danino.
GettyHamas has ordered its terrorists to kill the remaining 60 Israeli hostages[/caption]
APOri Danino, pictured in an undated photo, was seen in a cruel video released by Hamas[/caption]
AFPDanino (bottom left) was one of the six hostages found dead by the IDF on Saturday[/caption]
AFPIsraelis have since been calling for action to secure the release of the remaining hostages held captive since the October 7[/caption]
The disturbing footage, which The Sun has decided not to publish, shows the late 25-year-old, one of the six hostages murdered in the hands of Hamas.
His body was found in a tunnel in Gaza alongside Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Alexander Lobanov, and Almog Sarusi on Saturday.
All six were abducted by Hamas terrorists when they launched the horror October 7 bloodbath in Israel.
The IDF said their bodies were found in an underground tunnel in the south of the Strip, where they were killed moments before troops located them.
Military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said: “According to our initial estimation, they were brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists a short time before we reached them.”
Hamas has now revealed that terrorists were instructed to kill the hostages before Israeli troops closed in, starting a frightening chapter to the already brutal conflict.
In a statement issued Monday evening, Hamas spokesperson Abu Obaida said the new rules were implemented following a “incident” in Nuseirat, CNN reports.
Such incident appears to relate to an IDF operation in June that freed four Israeli hostages from a refugee camp in central Gaza.
The shameless killers, who also released a video of late hostage Eden Yerushalmi, added they would drip-feed footage of what Hamas described as the “final messages” of the remaining captives.
AFPDemonstrators light flares and wave national flags during an anti-government protest on Friday[/caption]
EPAFamilies of Israeli hostages, pictured protesting in Tel Aviv earlier this week, have been fiercely demanding a hostage deal[/caption]
It comes as the US Department of Justice has indicted several senior Hamas leaders in connection with the October 7 massacre, charging documents unsealed on Tuesday revealed.
The charge is the Justice Department’s first criminal move towards holding criminals liable for the horror attack in Israel, CNN reports.
Ismail Haniyeh, Yahya Sinwar, Mohammad Al-Masri, Marwan Issa, Khaled Meshaal, and Ali Baraka are the six defendants facing seven accusations total.
The charges include terrorism, conspiracy to kill US citizens, and conspiracy to utilise weapons of mass destruction that will cause death.
The defendants are high-ranking Hamas officials, including Sinwar, the terrorist organisation’s commander in Gaza and a key mastermind of the October 7 bloodbath.
Haniyeh, Al-Masri and Issa are deceased, and the remaining three are at large.
Protests across Israel
by Juliana Cruz Lima, Foreign News Reporter
The recovery of the six hostages killed by Hamas on Saturday has fuelled a wave of public outrage across Israel
Slamming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s inability to bring home the remaining hostages, crowds have swelled in multiple cities in a series of nationwide protests over the past few days.
Right-wing members of Netanyahu’s coalition have vowed to topple the government if he ends the war, and protesters are accusing him of killing Israeli citizens in order to maintain his position of power.
Following a nationwide walkout on Monday that nearly brought the nation to a standstill, hundreds of demonstrators returned to the streets on Tuesday, holding protests in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Hod HaSharon, Haifa, Herzliya, and Ra’anana.
Some of the biggest gatherings in Tel Aviv took place outside the military headquarters, the Kirya, outside the Begin Gate.
A designated area had been set aside for protesters, including families of captives, to demonstrate.
Video shows demonstrators demanding the release of the captives held in Gaza, police attempting to put out street fires, and protesters waving flags.
Cops said that they had taken three suspects into custody for rioting.
As well as the war’s trigger attack, the US complaint also covers several decades of alleged terrorist crimes by Hamas.
Prosecutors describe how the savage assault occurred that day, as well as the defendants’ involvement, one of whom is said to be the chief of Hamas’ militia group.
The complaint read: “On October 7, 2023, Hamas committed its most violent, large-scale terrorist attack to date.”
It also detailed how “in the early morning hours … Hamas sent more than 2,000 armed fighters into farms and towns in southern Israel, where they carried out the massacres of over a thousand people and the kidnappings of more than 200 others.”
“As of the date of this Complaint, at least 43 American citizens were among those murdered, and at least ten American citizens were taken hostage or remain unaccounted for,” prosecutors say.
According to authorities, the senior Hamas members indicted advocated for large terrorist acts and applauded the October 7 attack.
The charges were initially filed on February 1, 2024, but were kept under cover in case the Justice Department had the opportunity to arrest any of the defendants, a Justice Department official said Tuesday.
“Following Haniyeh’s death and recent developments in the region, it was no longer necessary to keep those charges under seal,” the official said.
In a statement, Attorney General Merrick Garland added: “The charges unsealed today are just one part of our effort to target every aspect of Hamas’ operations. These actions will not be our last.”
ReutersA man prays at the site of the Nova festival, where partygoers were killed and kidnapped during the October 7 attack by Hamas[/caption]
EPANext month will mark the somber one year anniversary of Hamas’ horror bloodbath in Israel[/caption]