{"id":288251,"date":"2024-05-26T07:15:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T07:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=288251"},"modified":"2024-05-27T07:39:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T07:39:28","slug":"hamas-armed-wing-says-its-fighters-have-killed-captured-israeli-soldiers-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=288251","title":{"rendered":"Hamas armed wing says its fighters have killed, captured Israeli soldiers in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Middle East Eye \u2013 May 25, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>A spokesman for Hamas&#8217; armed wing said\u00a0on Sunday\u00a0its fighters had killed, wounded or captured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/countries\/israel\">Israeli<\/a> soldiers during fighting in\u00a0Jabalia in northern Gaza on Saturday, though the Israeli military denied the claim.<\/p>\n<p>The Hamas armed wing spokesman did not say how many soldiers had been abducted, and showed no proof of the claim.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hamas&#39; military wing claims to have captured Israeli soldiers during fighting in Gaza. Spokesman Abu Ubaida reports all members of the Israeli force involved were &quot;dead, wounded, or captured.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Israeli military denies the claim. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hSanoPWSDv\">pic.twitter.com\/hSanoPWSDv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MiddleEastEye\/status\/1794518764009996632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our fighters lured a Zionist force into an ambush inside a tunnel \u2026 The fighters withdrew after they left all members of the force dead, wounded, and captured,&#8221; Abu Ubaida, the spokesman for Al Qassam Brigades, said in a recorded message <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/C7aF4G_qiX4\/?igsh=eHc3M2xzazNsZW8z\">broadcast by Al Jazeera<\/a> early on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military on Sunday denied the claim.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The IDF (Israeli Defence Forces) clarifies that there is no incident in which a soldier was abducted,&#8221; the military said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The comments by Abu Ubaida came hours after prospects for a resumption of mediated Gaza ceasefire talks grew on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>An official with knowledge of the matter said a decision had been taken to resume the talks next week after the chief of Israel&#8217;s Mossad intelligence agency met the head of the CIA and the prime minister of Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>The source, who declined to be identified by name or nationality, said it had been decided that &#8220;in the coming week negotiations will open based on new proposals led by the mediators, Egypt and Qatar and with active US involvement&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A Hamas official later denied Israeli media reports the talks would resume in Cairo on Tuesday, telling Reuters: &#8220;There is no date.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After more than seven months of war in Gaza, the mediators have struggled to secure a breakthrough, with Israel seeking the release of hostages held by Hamas and Hamas seeking an end to the war and a release of Palestinian prisoners in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 36,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel&#8217;s offensive, Gaza&#8217;s health ministry says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/hamas-armed-wing-says-fighters-killed-captured-israeli-soldiers-gaza-fighting\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Hamas &#8216;Captures&#8217; IDF Soldiers In Gaza; Abu Obaida Releases &#8216;Video Proof&#8217; | Watch Israeli Response<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Times of India \u2013 May 26, 2024<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LkO8oKXF4fQ?si=1r_mJy6-iC2e-6VL\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If true this would represent a major embarrassment for Israeli forces, as it would reveal just how dire the situation is for them. So naturally they have denied this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288252,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288251\/revisions\/288252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}