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ITONGADOL/AJN.- At least 21 hostages in Gaza are still alive and there are three more that are considered alive, but there is a great concern for their state, as he told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday an Israeli source.
Prime Minister Benjamín Netanyahu shared on Wednesday the same figures in a video posted on his official social networks.
The previous day, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, declared that three hostages had died in captivity. “They said that only 24 were alive, and now I correct … I say 21 because, today, there are 21. Three have died. So this is a terrible situation,” Trump told reporters at a press conference.
The three include an Israeli and two foreigners, of whom there are no signs of life from shortly after October 7. Their families have been informed of the situation since then.
-Hamas keeps 59 hostages in Gaza. The death of 35 of them has been officially confirmed. Thirty -two are Israelis and three foreigners.
The families of the hostages receive continuous and exhaustive information about the state of their loved ones.
All the relevant information in possession of the unity of missing persons of the Israel Defense Forces (FDI) is transmitted to the hostage family by an intelligence officer who works regularly with the family.
The Division of Prisoners and missing persons usually invites the families of the hostages to informative meetings, and military link officials and representatives of the Hostage Directorate, missing and returned people work with them in the civil sphere.
Contact with families of foreign hostages is maintained continuously through relevant embassies.
