Israeli Ambassador: Russian citizens may be among those abducted by Hamas
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The terrorist organization Hamas has kidnapped a large number of people, including Russian citizens. This was announced by the Israeli Ambassador to Moscow Alexander Ben Zvi.
“The number of hostages is high. But we don’t have exact data yet. Many people mention a number of around a hundred. Now everything is sorted out. Here they say that there is [среди них]maybe citizens of Russia and so on,” he said (https://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/18942465 by TASS).
At the same time, as the ambassador clarified, there were no reports of Russians among the hostages.
On the morning of October 7, the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas began firing rockets at Israel. As a result of the hostilities, according to official data, more than 350 Israelis were killed and more than 1,800 were injured. Mass abductions of Israelis and guests of the country were reported by the group. On the Palestinian side, over 200 residents were killed and about 1,700 were injured.
Israel launched Operation Iron Swords. The Israeli army on the morning of October 8 announced the evacuation of all residents on the border with the Gaza Strip to a depth of at least 4 km within 24 hours before the start of a ground military operation there, said the spokesman for the country’s armed forces (IDF), Daniel Hagari.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad joined a military operation against Israel called the Al-Aqsa Flood by Hamas. The Lebanese group Hezbollah also expressed support for the militants by carrying out strikes in northern Israel. The terrorist group Taliban, banned in the Russian Federation, has announced its readiness to take part in hostilities on the side of Palestine.
Moscow called on the Palestinian and Israeli sides to immediately cease fire, stop the violence and establish a negotiation process with the assistance of the international community.
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