About 80 hostages are still alive in Gaza - Israel

43 people who were arrested were said to have died in abstia on Tuesday, according to the latest figures released by Israel, while 80 people are believed to be still being held in Gaza.

Four more detainees were added to the death row a day earlier, including Chaim Perry, Yoram Metzger, Amiram Cooper, and Nadav Papplewell, who are believed to have died months earlier.

 IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari admitted that the four hijackers were killed while Israeli forces were operating in the city.

- We are carefully investigating the cause of their death and investigating all possible avenues. We will soon announce the results of our investigation first to their families and then to the public. "We will give them an understanding, as we always do," he added.

The four men appeared before a video released by Hamas. One of them, Popplewell, died of wounds he suffered during an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, according to a Palestinian military group.

However, Israeli government officials who spoke on condition of anonymity told multiple news outlets that the 80 people arrested are believed to be alive and many more are dead.

More than 100 prisoners have been freed since the start of the new hostilities. Only a few survived the military operation, while most of the prisoners were released in a prisoner exchange during a week-long ceasefire with Hamas last month of November.

Securing the release of all prisoners taken by Hamas during its first attack on southern Israel on October 7 is one of the main goals of the war against Hamas launched by the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu.

The failure to take prisoners out of Gaza during the nearly eight-month war has been criticized by Netanyahu's critics, with families of kidnapped Israelis holding mass protests that states the work of the government.