Abu Obeida mentioned that the lady had been held with a second feminine hostage whose life was in peril.
Throughout final 12 months’s Hamas assault which triggered the Gaza warfare, militants took 251 hostages, of whom 97 are nonetheless held in Gaza, together with 34 the military says are lifeless.
Ten feminine hostages, together with 5 troopers, have been believed to stay alive in custody earlier than Abu Obeida’s assertion, in line with an AFP tally.
Throughout a one-week truce in November final 12 months, 105 hostages have been freed, together with 80 Israelis who have been exchanged for 240 Palestinian prisoners.
The Israeli authorities has come underneath immense public stress to agree a brand new deal to convey the remaining hostages house whereas they’re nonetheless alive.
