{"id":188699,"date":"2023-11-15T02:52:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T02:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/?p=188699"},"modified":"2023-11-15T02:52:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T02:52:47","slug":"israeli-officials-dont-know-if-all-hostages-are-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/world-news\/israeli-officials-dont-know-if-all-hostages-are-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli officials don&apos;t know if all hostages are alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Israeli officials don&#8217;t know how many Hamas hostages are still alive as they call for &#8216;two-way humanitarianism&#8217;: &#8216;It&#8217;s a black hole&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>More than 200 hostages were taken by Hamas militants from Israel on Oct 7\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Hamas has released proof of life videos for some but not all of those taken\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Officials at the Israeli Consulate in New York say hostages were split into groups<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>The youngest hostage taken is a 10-month-old baby boy\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Israeli officials last night made the grim admission that they do not know how many Hamas hostages are still alive after being taken underground a month ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The officials, speaking at a screening of the Hamas atrocity at the Consulate in New York, made a public plea for &#8216;two way&#8217; humanitarian aid to rescue the hostages while the world calls for a ceasefire to save remaining Gazan civilians.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Commander Jonathan Conricus, speaking from Tel Aviv via Zoom, said of the 1.1million civilians in Gaza, between 850,000 and 900,000 have fled northern Gaza.\u00a0Yesterday, 50,000 evacuated the region between 9am and 2pm, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Those figures have not been confirmed by Palestinian officials, who today said the civilian death toll is now at 11,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More than 200 hostages were taken from Israel\u00a0by Hamas fighters on October 7. The youngest is a ten-month-old baby.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hamas has released video footage of some of the hostages to serve as proof of life, and said last week they were &#8216;ready&#8217; to allow some to return home after relentless airstrikes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>Scroll down for video\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/10\/14\/76534513-12734519-A_Hamas_gunman_is_seen_carrying_a_distressed_infant_The_footage_-a-14_1699626189969.jpg\" height=\"680\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A Hamas gunman is seen\u00a0carrying a distressed infant in a video released on October 13. The youngest hostage is 10 months old\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/10\/14\/77177331-12734519-Hamas_today_released_a_video_it_said_showed_three_female_hostage-a-1_1699625485654.jpg\" height=\"398\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Some of the 239 hostages taken by Hamas are shown in a video released by the militant group last month. Israeli officials say they have no confirmation of how many remain alive<\/p>\n<p>The health of the majority of the hostages remains unknown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We have some intelligence that we&#8217;re not sharing but it&#8217;s largely a black hole.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They have been split into groups but we don&#8217;t know how.\u00a0Hamas\u00a0will not even give us their names.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There are 10 people who we still cannot say whether they have been killed or kidnapped because the bodies of those murdered are so badly burned,&#8217; Aviv Ezra, Acting Consul General\u00a0of Israel in New York, said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Israel is calling for the hostages to be freed in the four-hour, daily humanitarian pauses that were yesterday agreed upon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<span>Humanitarianism is a two-way street. We are not even being given the most basic information &#8211; the names of the hostages &#8211; but we are creating humanitarian pauses for Palestinian civilians and delivering aid.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;Why can&#8217;t the Red Cross go in and ensure our citizens have access to food, water, aid?&#8217; Itay Milner, spokesperson for the consulate in New York, said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/10\/14\/77652233-12734519-image-a-4_1699625988328.jpg\" height=\"594\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>IDF Lieutenant Commander Jonathan Conricus last night told journalists forces have &#8216;exposed&#8217; 130 Hamas tunnels and continue to dismantle key strongholds\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/10\/14\/77652679-12734519-image-a-27_1699626485704.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians are fleeing north Gaza every day, according to IDF officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>One fear is that as Hamas fighters become increasingly desperate under constant fire from Israel, they may use the hostages as human shields.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;<\/span>We have no doubt that if necessary, Hamas would hide behind our civilians, the hostages, if they needed to. They are hiding behind their own citizens. They are hiding under hospitals, schools, kindergartens, in boy scouts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What we do know is that unless we continue to apply pressure, nothing will move,&#8217; Ezra added.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To his knowledge, there have been no ransom demands or negotiations in releasing the hostages.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The remarks were given after a screening of the 47-minute compilation of footage shown to reporters by Israel as part of an ongoing effort to remind the world of the attack that spurned the current conflict.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DailyMail.com&#8217;s recap of that footage can be read here.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The officials shared it, they said, to dismiss suggestions from some Palestine supporters that the atrocity did not happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There are still some who deny it. They want us to produce the body of a beheaded baby in order for them to believe it,&#8217; Lt. Commander Conricus said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/10\/14\/77652213-12734519-Israeli_Prime_Minister_Benjamin_Netanyahu_and_Defense_Minister_Y-a-12_1699626037169.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Netanyahu said today that a ceasefire is &#8216;not an option&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12734519\/Israeli-officials-dont-know-Hamas-hostages-alive-call-two-way-humanitarianism-black-hole.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli officials don&#8217;t know how many Hamas hostages are still alive as they call for &#8216;two-way humanitarianism&#8217;: &#8216;It&#8217;s a black<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Israeli officials don&amp;apos;t know if all hostages are alive - News Need News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/world-news\/israeli-officials-dont-know-if-all-hostages-are-alive\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Israeli officials don&amp;apos;t know if all hostages are alive - 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