Hamas Official Says All Its Hostages Seen As Israelis: Report
NDTV
Israel said on Wednesday that more than half the hostages held by Hamas have foreign passports from 25 different countries.
Hamas officials visiting Moscow were quoted by Russian media on Friday as saying the terrorist group viewed all its hostages as Israelis, whatever additional passports they held, and could not release any of them until Israel agreed to a ceasefire.
Hamas Politburo member Abu Marzouk told state news agency RIA that Russia, the United States, France, Spain, Italy and many others had appealed for the release of their nationals from among more than 200 hostages that Hamas seized in a cross-border rampage into Israel on Oct. 7.
He said Hamas viewed Moscow's request "more positively and attentively than the others, given the character of our relations with Russia".
