Trump says only 21 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza now believed to be alive

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said Tuesday that 3 hostages held by Hamas successful Gaza person died, leaving lone 21 believed to beryllium inactive living.

“As of today, it’s 21, 3 person died,” Trump said of the hostages being held by Hamas, noting until precocious it had been 24 radical believed to beryllium living. He did not elaborate connected the identities of those present believed to beryllium dead, nor however helium had travel to larn of their deaths. “There’s 21, positive a batch of dormant bodies," Trump said.

One American, Edan Alexander, had been among the 24 hostages believed to beryllium alive, with the bodies of respective different Americans besides held by Hamas aft its Oct. 7, 2023 battle connected Israel.

The president’s comments came arsenic Israel approved plans connected Monday to prehend the Gaza Strip and to enactment successful the Palestinian territory for an unspecified magnitude of time, successful a bid to retrieve the hostages and effort to fulfill its warfare aims of destroying Hamas. If implemented, the determination would vastly grow Israel’s operations there and apt gully fierce planetary opposition.

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