Five people who were held captive in the Gaza Strip as hostages of the Islamist group Hamas have died, the Israeli Army confirmed this Friday, while Israeli authorities estimate that there are still 132 hostages in the Palestinian enclave.
The deaths of Ofir Tzarfati, Eliyahu Margalit, Mia Goren, Ronen Engel and Aryeh Zalmanovich “were notified to their families,” a military spokesman said.
Also this Friday, at least three people died due to Israeli attacks against southern Lebanon, in the first hours after the crossfire between Israel and the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah resumed with the end of the humanitarian truce in Gaza. This was reported by various sources.
According to the Lebanese National News Agency (ANN), an attack this afternoon hit a house in the town of Al Jabayn, causing the death of one of the people inside and wounding three others, who have had They had to be transferred to hospitals in the also southern city of Tyre.
