Senior Hamas Terrorist Claims ‘No One Has Any Idea’ How Many Israeli Hostages Are Alive
Hamas spokesman Hamdan over the fate of hostages: “I don’t have any idea about that; no one has any idea about this.”
After making more demands in response to President Joe Biden’s ceasefire offer, Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas claims that it has ‘no idea’ how many of the 116 remaining Israeli hostages are still alive.
“I don’t have any idea about that; no one has any idea about this,” Lebanon-based senior Hamas terrorist Osama Hamdan told CNN on Friday.
While oblivious to the fate of Israeli hostages, including women and children, languishing in Palestinian captivity for more than eight months, Hamdan, who also serves as Hamas spokesman, demanded a permanent ceasefire and complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza as part of a Biden-backed deal.
The Gaza-based terror group calls for “a clear position from Israel to accept the ceasefire, a complete withdrawal from Gaza,” he insisted.
"No one has any idea" how many Israeli hostages are still alive.
Hamas official Osama Hamdan to @bencnn when pressed about the fate of the 120 remaining hostages in Gaza.
Of the 4 freed hostages, Hamdan says they're "better than before" and blames Israel for their suffering. pic.twitter.com/ln3XFlC3rt
— Lauren Cone (@LConeCNN) June 14, 2024
The Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported senior Hamas terrorist’s remarks:
In an interview with CNN released on Friday, Hamas spokesperson and political bureau member Osama Hamdan said that he did not know about how many of 120 hostages in Gaza are still alive. “No one has any idea about that,” he stated, adding that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) operation to free four hostages on Saturday resulted in deaths of three others, including an American citizen.
Hamdan told CNN that any deal to release the hostages must include guarantees of a permanent ceasefire and the complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip.
He said that the latest proposal on the table backed by the United States did not meet Hamas’ requirements as the group seeks “a clear position from Israel to accept the ceasefire, a complete withdrawal from Gaza, and let the Palestinians to determine their future by themselves, the reconstruction, the [lifting] of the siege, and we are ready to talk about a fair deal about the prisoners exchange.”
“The Israelis want the ceasefire only for six weeks and then they want to go back to the fight, which I think the Americans, till now, they did not convince the Israelis to accept [a permanent ceasefire],” stated the Hamas spokesperson, highlighting that the U.S. needs to convince Israel to accept a permanent ceasefire as part of the deal.
IDF: We will continue to “move forward until we achieve our goals”
Undeterred by outside pressure and Hamas’s stalling of hostage negotiations, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was pushing ahead against Hamas terrorists in Rafah, a senior IDF commander assured. “The plan is clear going forward, we are continuing to move forward until we achieve our goals,” chief of the IDF Southern Command Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman said Friday.
The IDF was conducting military operations inside the Hamas stronghold of Rafah. The military was carrying out “effective, precise, intelligence-based and targeted operational activity to thwart terrorists and terrorist infrastructure in the Rafah area,” the IDF said in a statement Friday.
Israeli ground troops, assisted by the air force, were destroying Hamas’s capability to wage its terrorist war. “Over the past day, the troops eliminated a number of terrorists and located large quantities of weapons and underground tunnel shafts. A number of explosive devices, as well as Hamas terrorist infrastructure sites, were located and destroyed by IDF ground troops,” the IDF statement disclosed.
Hezbollah escalates rocket fire on northern Israel
Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group has stepped up rocket attacks on Israel after an IDF airstrike killed one of its senior-most terrorist commanders Tuesday night. Lebanon-based Sami Taleb Abdullah, who headed Hezbollah’s Nasr terrorist force, was among the leading planners of the offensive launched on Israel’s northern border in the wake of the October 7 massacre.
Israel retaliated to intensified cross-border fire by hitting Hezbollah terrorist bases and rocket launch sites in southern Lebanon.
How’s your day going?
200,000 Israelis spent the day in rocket shelters because Iran’s proxy army in Lebanon, Hezbollah, launched a massive coordinated missile attack on northern Israel. pic.twitter.com/yj5eKaCpIu
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) June 13, 2024
The Israeli news website YNET reported Friday:
Hezbollah launched a barrage of 30 rockets at Israel on Friday, targeting the northern city of Kiryat Shmona, on the third day of heavy fire directed at Israel’s north. No injuries were reported but fires broke out in the city and surrounding areas.
Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the attack and said it was in response to an IDF strike on the area of Tyre in South Lebanon late on Thursday. Two women were killed in shelling from Israeli naval vessels on a building used by Hezbollah operatives. Lebanese media said at least 20 people were injured. (…)
Gordin said the IDF had destroyed all of the known front positions of the terror group and was will prepared to prevent an infiltration over land by Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force.
Unverified video of the Israeli attack on a building in Janata,southern Lebanon, that may have targeted a member of Hezbollah. pic.twitter.com/vsn5j0YCyG
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) June 13, 2024
Israel on Friday rejected a French offer to create a multinational task force to tackle Hezbollah’s aggression. French President Emmanuel Macron recently proposed a ‘trilateral task force’ comprising the U.S., France, and Israel as Hezbollah steps up terror campaign using its bases in southern Lebanon.
President Macron, who is fighting for his political survival at home after losing badly to Marine Le Pen’s right-wing National Rally party in last week’s EU election, is trying to project himself as a statesman ahead of the snap parliamentary elections later this month.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant rejected the French proposal. With Macron at the helm, France has “adopted hostile policies against Israel,” the Israeli defense minister said.
The Times of Israel reports:
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant rules out joining an initiative promoted by French President Emmanuel Macron in which France, the United States and Israel would form a contact group to work on defusing escalating tensions with Hezbollah on the northern border.
“As we fight a just war, defending our people, France has adopted hostile policies against Israel,” Gallant says in a statement. “In doing so, France ignores the atrocities committed by Hamas against Israeli children, women and men.”
“Israel will not be a party to the trilateral framework proposed by France,” he writes.
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good tactic
now flattn these moooofooks
and stop funding the worthless UN
france?????
they might as well elect omar to pres
as europe tries desperately to avoid the is lam takeover ( its going to happen from within just like the usa) they will slowly suffocate their own
First honest thing I’ve heard from Hamas ever. Their organization is fragmented, nobody knows where anybody is most of the time, and there are psycho groups inside Hamas who have probably taken hostages and not told anybody higher up, not to mention hyped-up civilians who went flooding across the border and possibly grabbed one or two Israelis to hold at their homes, and now (much like the dog who chased the car and caught it) have no idea what to do with them. We tend to think of terrorist organizations as organized. That’s only partially true.
Not so sure about this chaos theory
You may be correct but Hamas , like the CCCP and the KGB and STASI they have to know who is loyal and who isn’t. They also have to know whom to pay for hostage maintenance services
Not every group in Gaza is best friends with Hamas. Wouldn’t surprise me if some of those groups have snagged them selves some Jews and squirrelled them away from Hamas for their own ends (seems to be a kudos thing to have Jew war trophies and sex slaves in Palestinian culture).
Palestinian culture? Nah, Islamic culture generally.
There’s NO EXCUSE for being French. Al Bundy
..shoe salesman.
I’ve just assumed that they were all dead by now. I was more surprised that they’d found four alive when the news of the recent rescue came out.
If we had a real government, the response would be: you have 48 hours to return American hostages. If you fail, we do a d-day landing, remove all Muslims from Lebanon and repopulate with Christian Mexican illegals and Donald Trump resorts.
I like the way you think
Lebanon?! There aren’t any hostages being held in Lebanon, as far as I know.
Call Macron’s bluff. A 100% French peacekeeping force stationed along a Lebanon-Israel “demilitarized” zone.
Absolutely no UN or NGO nonsense. Let Macron suffer the consequences of his crap foreign policy.
PS: He wasn’t so sanguine when dealing with Islamic jihad in Mali.
Love the Israeli response to the French. Macron is an irrelevant lame duck at this point anyway.
“No one know how many Israeli hostages there are”
And no one knows what the Israelis are capable of.
Does anybody (besides me) wonder whether this fine gentleman might be able to locate the Israeli hostages
if perhaps one or more of his own family or friends were videotaped being kidnapped, and or beaten and/or raped mutilated burned alive?
Maybe jog his memory a bit?
Idk I’m just spitballing here
The Russian option — returning his relative to him, a part at a time.
You assume he won’t see them as martyrs for the cause. Remember that Muhammad said that dying in the service of Islam is the highest possible honor a Muslim can have.
Well then I suppose we would find out.
As former heavyweight champion of the world Mike Tyson put it:
“Everyone has a plan.
Until they’re punched in the face.”
until it is your sons ,… different story … wives .. daughters … not so much … SONS killed
casterated and sold as slaves
different story ….
not true
anyone who has studied history knows exactly what Israel is capable
6 day war anyone …
rescuing the hostages in
Entebbe
Regarding the hostage/prisoner exchange, let the Israelis return their terrorist prisoners to Hamas in the same physical condition Hamas returns the hostages to Israel.
On the one hand, Americans owe their independence to France. And back in the day, we Americans were all raised to have a certain reverence for all things French.
On the other hand jeeez — who the heck does macron possibly think that he is? He just got kicked out of Africa, and he got trounced in last week election.
What a twerp , Macron.
France can’t even protect its own citizens. Go away.
“I don’t have any idea about that; no one has any idea about this,” Lebanon-based senior Hamas terrorist Osama Hamdan told CNN on Friday.
Osama Hamdan: the Hamas version of Dindu Nuffin.
I think he’s telling the truth here. There’s a reason terrorists organize themselves into cells that have no contact with each other and have no mutual superiors.
There is no way that he’s telling the truth here — except perhaps in the most concrete BillClinton-esque sense.
This is just more psychological warfare.
The wonder is that anyone swallows it.
Stockholm syndrome anyone?
Anyway — eventually they want to be able to hold another “press conference” so that in a few years they can trot out a few of the young Israeli female captives — so that those Jewish girls can publicly proclaim:
– their gratitude to hamas for freeing them from Israel and their Jewish parents
– their happiness /gratitude with islam
– their satisfaction with their “husbands.”
And these girls will be pregnant for maybe the second or third or fourth time
Mark your calendars.
This same gentleman from the Hamas organization may still be in charge, who knows, check website (or with AP/NYTimes/CNN) for updates
Where is the IRC in all this? Why has the Biden administration not required as a precondition for any talks visits to all and accountability of all kidnapped Israelis? This administration is utterly incompetent and uncaring for kidnapped Americans.
The precondition for any further negotiation should be an insistence on immediate access to every hostage by a neutral third party and listing of which hostages are currently alive and in what physical condition. Without that eff Hamas. They don’t seem to have grasped that Israeli popular opinion and that a substantial # of the general public in the West (if not the leadership class) are totes OK with the eradication of Hamas, their local supporters (2/3+ of the Gaza residents) and their enablers around the world.
Was is this thing still breathing and giving a press conference?
Allow me to amend that:
“Why is this thing still breathing and giving a press conference?”
HAMAS:
Israel has killed over 36,000 women and children
Also HAMAS:
We have no idea how many hostages we are holding.
The unmitigated gall of these animals “making further demands” on anything literally angers me. One thing they can smell without error is a weak American President, And also a weak French leader as well. Never forget that Hamas chose this war. They could end it by handing over all living hostages as well as the bodies of the murdered hostages immediately and turning over their arms to the IDF. Additional demand??? This situation calls for an unconditional surrender and nothing less than that…. Keep going BIBi…there is nothing more important for your country than total and complete victory. God Bless Israel and the IDF.
“I don’t have any idea about that; no one has any idea about this.”
Well, then, what good are you?
We’re now living in some bizarre hellscape where statements like this from a leader of a Terrorist organization responsible for atrocities on a massive scale are far more credible than any statements we’ve heard from the US Government, the EU, or the UN.