The Israel Defense Forces notified the families of 203 people who were being held hostage by the radical Islamic group Hamas. The information was confirmed by the IDF spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, this Thursday (19).
The military had varying degrees of confidence in its assessment — and said it could not be certain about the total number of hostages held in Gaza.
“The families of the 203 kidnapped have been notified. Of them, some are high probability and others are medium or low probability,” Hagari said, adding that the number is not definitive.
In the same briefing, Hagari said the military has notified the families of 306 soldiers killed since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas on October 7.
A spokesman for Hamas’ military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, said in a video statement last week that the number of hostages captured by Hamas during the attack on Israel was between 200-250.
Last week, Hamas released the first video of one of the hostages: Mia Schem, a 21-year-old French-Israeli woman. In the video, Schem said she was injured and taken to Gaza, then begged to return home to her family.
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Source: CNN Brasil
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