The Islamist group Hamas proposed this Sunday release of two other captivesNurit Yitzhak and Yovheved Lifshitz “took the same steps as with the two American hostages,” the group said in a statement published on its Telegram channel.

Abu Obeida, a spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said he had previously offered to release both “for compelling humanitarian reasons and without asking for anything in return,” but he said “Israel refused to accept them.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied the accusations and called them “false propaganda”

“Israel will continue to do whatever is necessary to bring home all prisoners and missing people,” added the Israeli Prime Minister.

The alleged offer comes as Israel and Hamas enter the 16th day of war in the Gaza Strip today, and after Israeli officials said yesterday that Palestinian militias They have 210 people captive on the strip.

The kidnappings continue to spark protests from families and Israelis demanding the immediate release of the hostages, including women, elderly people and about 30 minors.

According to Israel, most of the hostages they are alive.

On Friday, Hamas releases two American hostages for “humanitarian reasons” through the mediation of Qatar, which appears to continue to be involved in indirect contacts between Israel and Hamas.

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Two were released – a mother and her daughter. According to the Islamist group, they, with US citizenship, surrendered “to demonstrate to the American people and the world that the claims” of the Joe Biden administration against Hamas “were false.”

Last Wednesday, the group released its first evidence of the hostage’s life—a video of French-Israeli Mia Shem, 21 years old.who said that he was fine and wanted to go home, while someone was bandaging a wound on his arm.

Soon after, in another video, Abu Obeida offered to release hostages with international passports Many of them are Israelis with second citizenship, whom he said they consider their “guests.”

More than two hundred hostages remaining in the hands of Palestinian militias in the Gaza Strip were abducted during a Hamas attack on Israeli territory October 7, which sparked a war that is now in its third week.

The conflict has so far been resolved More than 1,400 people have died in Israel – mostly civilians – and at least 4,469 people have died in Gaza due to Israeli bombing, more than 70% of whom are minors, women and the elderly.

Meanwhile, intensive Israeli air attacks on the Gaza Strip continue, including on civilian infrastructure such as homes, schools, hospitals and places of worship, where thousands of people in the enclave are sheltering from bombs; and Islamist militias in the Gaza Strip continue to fire rockets, more than 7,000 since the beginning of the war.

(EFE)