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Hamas: Israel endangers with offensive life of hostages
Updated on September 19, 2025 – 05:18 a.m.Reading time: 4 min.
Israel’s army moves in the city of Gaza. If she does not withdraw, soldiers and hostages would die, Hamas announces. There are also fights elsewhere – with dead on both sides.
While the Israeli army is moving to the center of the city of Gaza in northern Gaza Strip, its troops in the south of the coastal area are further involved in isolated fights. Four Israeli soldiers were killed there in Rafah on Thursday in the explosion of an explosive device, as the military announced. According to medical circles, dozens of people died again on the Palestinian side, 38 in the city of Gaza alone. Meanwhile, the United States and its veto in the UN Security Council once again prevented a resolution to improve the humanitarian situation.
The resolution text failed due to the principle of unanimity should express deep concern about a famine in the sealed coastal strip. In addition, the Israeli government was asked to “immediately and uncondently and unconditionally” all restrictions on the import of humanitarian aid to Gaza “.
However, the United States, as Israel’s most important ally, was the only country in the most powerful UN committee against the draft resolution-there were also 14 votes in favor. US representative Morgan Ortagus justified the Veto Washington with the fact that the resolution would have supported the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas.
The Hamas addressed impending words to the Israeli army and knew that she “prepared thousands of ambushes and explosive devices in the city of Gaza”. “Gaza will be a cemetery for your soldiers.” In addition, the hostages kidnapped from Israel were spread over several quarters of the city. The information could not be checked independently.
The military offensive ordered despite all the warnings of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will result in none of the hostages return to Israel. There will be no consideration of the life of the kidnapped, “as long as Netanyahu decides to kill them,” said Hamas’ military arm, the Kassam brigades.
Israel had started a highly controversial soil offensive in the city on Tuesday night. According to the government, the aim is to smash one of the last strongholds of Hamas and achieve the release of the hostages.
There are still 48 hostages in the Gaza strip. According to Israeli information, 20 of them are likely to live, the others are about the handover of their mortal remains. The relatives of the hostages of Israel accuse the offensive of risking the lives of those who are still under the violence of Islamists.
