Hamas says group is operating under new instructions for handling hostages

Published: Sep 03, 2024 Duration: 00:02:15 Category: News & Politics
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Hamas says it has been operating under new instructions on how to handle hostages should Israeli forces approach their locations in Gaza. The announcement comes after the Israeli military recovered the bodies of six hostages from a tunnel in the southern Gaza saying they had been shot dead by their captors as Israeli forces got close, nbc's Matt Bradley reports from Tel Aviv, I'm hearing what Israelis have rechristened as hostage square and it's just one place among many throughout the country where we're going to see a third day of protests demanding a hostage deal and a lot of their anger is focused at their own Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and this is about the six hostages who were found dead just a couple of days ago over the weekend. A lot of folks here say that even though Hamas pulled the trigger, they're blaming Benjamin Netanyahu for not coming to a hostage deal that would have freed them before they were killed. And now we've also been hearing some chilling words from Hamas themselves that the spokesperson for the Al Qassam Brigades, which is their militant unit has said that there have been new instructions ever since June to kill any hostages once it seems the IDF is bearing down upon them. Now, this is a new ultimatum we're kind of expecting after we saw the corpses of those six hostages because autopsies showed that they were alive 48 to 72 hours before their bodies were discovered. So the fact is that this is now becoming essentially a question of finishing off Hamas or saving the hostages lives. That has always kind of been the math here. But Benjamin Netanyahu has consistently decided that he is going to choose destroying Hamas before he the hostage. Now that's a stark way to put it. But this is what Y Galland, the Minister of Defense has described this calculation. It's a cynical one but one that Benjamin Netanyahu defended last night in an address to the country where he said that he had asked the hostage families for forgiveness and then went into a lecture describing why his demands on these hostage negotiations must still stand and how they are necessary for Israel's security. Matt Bradley NBC News Tel Aviv. By the way, today, Israel announced that they had killed a military commander in Hamas who had appeared in a viral video from the October 7th attacks.

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