Drone video shows Hamas staging recovery of remains of hostage

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IDF drone video shows Hamas staging recovery of remains of hostage Ofir Tzarfati

An Israeli military drone video shows Hamas staging the fake recovery of the remains of a hostage it returned to Israel last night.

The remains were identified as belonging to Ofir Tzarfati, whose body was recovered by the IDF in the Gaza Strip in December 2023, less than two months after his abduction during the Hamas onslaught on October 7.

The video shows Hamas operatives bringing a body bag from a building to a hole that was dug in the ground and covering it in dirt.

The operatives are then seen digging up the body bag they had just hidden, using an excavator, before moving it and dumping it nearby.

Red Cross representatives are seen arriving as the excavator dumps more dirt on the body bag. The Hamas operatives then uncover the body bag in front of them, with one operative seen taking pictures with his phone.

www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-drone-video-shows-hamas-staging-recovery-of-remains-of-hostage-ofir-tzarfati/

Grotesque.

Hope the ceasefire holds, but Hamas are unforgivable for putting it at risk like this.

And now Netanyahu has instructed the military to immediately carry out "powerful" strikes on Gaza (source is the BBC).

Israel accuses Hamas of 'deception plot' as Hamas says it's postponing handover of dead hostage

Israel says it will carry out what it calls "intense strikes" on Hamas in response to what it claims are repeated violations of the Trump-brokered Gaza ceasefire plan.

Israel has accused Hamas of firing on its forces occupying part of the Gaza Strip as well as what it says was "a deliberate deception plot".

Last night Hamas handed over what it said were the remains of another Israeli hostage. But Israel says forensic tests showed they belong to a body already recovered from Gaza two years ago.

Drone footage taken by the IDF appears to show a body being taken out of a building in Gaza, placed in a shroud in a shallow grave then covered in soil. Israel says Hamas then carried out a fake excavation.

Hamas did not immediately comment on the drone footage but says it is postponing a planned handover of another dead hostage due to the Israeli strikes. It says Israel is to blame for the delay in handovers by impeding the excavation work needed to recover the bodies.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c891ex72nj7t

The story makes no sense. It says the remains handed over were identified as Ofir Tzarfati. But it then says the IDF recovered his body in 2023? So whose remains were actually found in 2023?

The IDF recovered parts of his body in 2023 and some more remains of the same person have now been recovered.

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Might be worth mentioning the importance to people following Judaism of burying the body whole ( with all of its parts 😓 ) to allow the soul to find peace.

Hamas no doubt aware of this.

Thank you @dairydebris

It must be so incredibly upsetting for the family of this dead hostage.

Yes.

Awful as it sounds I'm most sad for those who are about to lose their lives completely pointlessly in the next few hours in the broken ceasefire. Ofir is already gone- I'm not religious myself- I know that sounds awful. But those about to lose their lives because of this utterly pointless fucking about...

Honestly, fuck Hamas a million times over.

I know what you mean and feel the same way.

Well who’d have thunk it? A terrorist government in violation of a generous ceasefire agreement to stop the ‘genocide’ of their people that they are supposedly fighting for to give them a better life.

Of course there will be the apologists crying that terrorists can’t be expected to know where the dead hostages they took for valuable leverage are, and it’s not their fault, they were just doing their best in trying to return all the body parts of the people they slaughtered in cold blood (can’t even imagine what they did to them), and of course you can’t expect people in fear of their lives after being ‘genocided’ not to try to cross or approach, or even fire on, their enemy’s demarcation lines despite warnings that they would be fired upon and assumed to be carrying out terrorist activity.

All Israel’s fault of course. They started it after all because the Palestinians have a right to carry out mass terrorist attacks and take hostages, even dead ones, as acts of resistance against security measures put in place because of ummmm terrorism, and should have been left in peace to carry on planning more afterwards.

The Palestinians had a good chance of getting rid of Hamas and even even bringing a ceasefire about earlier by informing on where the hostages were (some freed ones said they were held in civilian homes) but what we’ve seen instead is crowds watching, cheering and filming their own people accused of being against Hamas being tortured and executed in the street and Hamas reasserting their power.

What does that say?

Nothing is ever Hamas's fault according to some.

I've given up arguing with some people who are so blind they refuse to see what monsters they are.