Hamas says guard killed hostage out of revenge, acted contrary to terror group’s ‘ethics’

The spokesman for the military wing of Hamas says a guard who shot dead a hostage acted out of revenge and against the terror group’s protocols.

The IDF has not been able to confirm or deny the claims made by Hamas — that its guards on two separate occasions shot dead a hostage and seriously wounded two other female captives.

Hudhaifa Kahlout — known by the nom de guerre Abu Obeida — the spokesman for the Al Qassam Brigades, provides an update on Hamas’s investigation into the killing of a hostage.

He says on Telegram that the investigation found that the guard “acted in revenge, contrary to instructions, after receiving news of the martyrdom of his two children in one of the enemy’s massacres.”

“We stress that the incident does not represent our ethics,” Abu Obeida says, adding that the protocols for guarding prisoners will be “tightened.”