Hamas says Israeli hostage killed, two women seriously wounded

An Israeli hostage was killed by his guard and two female captives were seriously wounded in separate incidents in Gaza, a spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, said on Monday.

Abu Obeida attributed the responsibility for what happened to what he described as Israeli “massacres” against the Palestinians.

Abu Obeida said in a statement published on the Telegram application that “the enemy government (Israel) bears full responsibility for these massacres and the resulting reactions that affect the lives of the Zionist prisoners.”

He pointed out that a committee has been formed to investigate the details and the results will be announced later, adding that efforts are underway to rescue the two injured hostages.

This is the first time that Qassam has claimed that a guard killed a hostage. On several previous occasions, the movement has attributed the deaths of hostages to Israeli shelling in the Strip.

“In the past few minutes, Hamas terrorists have published a written report claiming that in two separate incidents, Hamas operatives killed an Israeli hostage and wounded two hostages,” IDF spokesman Avichay Adraee said in Arabic on Channel X. “At this time, there are no intelligence documents that confirm or refute Hamas’s claims. We are continuing to investigate the credibility of the statement and will provide information when we receive it.”

The events come shortly after the Palestinian movement appointed Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar, one of the architects of the October 7 attack on Israel, as its new leader after the assassination of former leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31.