[Today's Prayer] Hamas "killed hostages due to Israeli military approach"... Netanyahu claims responsibility

The Palestinian armed faction Hamas said on the 2nd (local time) that guards monitoring Israeli hostages taken to the Gaza Strip have been following new guidelines since June on what to do with hostages when Israeli forces approach their detention sites. Reuters reported.

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The Israeli military said that the autopsy results showed gunshot wounds to the head and other parts of the body, and that the dead hostages were killed by their detainees as the Israeli military approached.

Abu Ubeida, spokesman for Hamas' armed organization Al-Qassam Brigades, emphasized that Israel was responsible for the deaths of the hostages, without disclosing the specifics of what the new guidelines were.

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Hamas directly stated its demand to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop military operations in the Gaza Strip to destroy Hamas.

“Netanyahu’s insistence on bringing back the hostages through military pressure rather than a negotiated settlement means that the hostages will be returned to their families in shrouds,” Ubeida said. “The families of the hostages will have to choose whether they want them alive or dead.” “It has to be done,” he said.

Prime Minister Netanyahu, who is not free from responsibility for the hostage deaths due to his passive attitude toward negotiations, held a press conference on the 2nd and warned that Hamas will pay a heavy price for this incident, saying that the hostages died after being shot in the back of the head.

Sami Abu Zuhri, a member of the Hamas political bureau, criticized Netanyahu's remarks as an attempt to escape responsibility for the deaths of the hostages and claimed, "Netanyahu killed these six hostages and decided to kill the remaining hostages as well."

He then emphasized, “Israelis must choose between Netanyahu and a negotiated settlement.”

The Hamas Political Bureau also issued a statement on this day, raising its voice, saying, “The hostages can return to their families immediately,” and “Netanyahu is blocking their return.”

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Source : News

6. Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness; 7. you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions (Psalms 45:6-7)

We praise the God of justice who loves us.

God, we see many hostages dying due to the war between Hamas and Israel, and we see these two nations holding each other responsible for this. There was also Hamas' challenge to the Israeli people: to choose between their national leader and the hostages.

God, we desire for the spirit of division that is in them that is causing them to be nervously checking on another to leave

This spirit blinds the kingdom of God that they truly need to see.

Please judge all of Satan’s work that causes them to immerse themselves in the sorrow of losing their family and national comrades.

Let the people of Israel and Palestine see the God who hates evil and loves justice.

Let us sing of God who gives us true freedom and salvation.

Let us proclaim to all nations the God of life who judges sin before the eternal throne in the highest place and saves us.