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Thursday, February 20, 2025
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Thursday, February 20, 2025
Hamas put propaganda material in hostages’ coffins, Israel fumes to mediators — report
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Palestinian gunmen carry a coffin said to contain the body of an Israeli hostage, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, February 20, 2025. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)
In addition to the gleeful ceremony ridden with propaganda in which Hamas this morning paraded the caskets of four Israeli civilian hostages, including two young kids, the terror group inserted additional propaganda material into the coffins it handed back to Israel, the Kan public broadcaster reports.
After Israeli officials found the material inside, Jerusalem reportedly contacted the mediators of the current ceasefire and hostage deal — Egypt, Qatar and the United States — and demanded stern action against what it says was a desecration of the sanctity of the dead.
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