Hamas setting up stage for hostage release in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah

Hamas has begun setting up a stage in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah where the hostage release is expected to take place.

The location is a new one, with the terror group shifting sites where it conducts the releases.

The stage has a a sign of a fist with a Palestinian flag, and the words “total victory” written in Hebrew at the bottom over a picture of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who has vowed the war will not end until Israel achieves “total victory.”

White pickup trucks with machine guns mounted on the back flank the stage and masked and armed Hamas gunmen can be seen forming a cordon surrounding the site.

It is not immediately clear if there will be one or more sites where the three hostages, Ohad Ben Ami, 56, Eli Sharabi, 52, and Or Levy, 34, will be freed.