Hamas has warned that the rest of Israeli hostages it is holding may share the same fate as pilot Ron Arad who went missing 36 years ago, APA reports citing TASS.
"[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu is encouraging the emergence of dozens of new Ron Arads," it said on its Telegram channel.
Israeli pilot Ron Arad was taken hostage by militants of the Lebanese Shiite movement Amal in 1986 when his plane crashed during a combat mission near the city of Saida. Israel began talks on his release immediately after the accident but talks were cut short two years later. In 1988, the man was declared missing. His whereabouts are not known until today.
According to Hamas, the six hostages whose bodies were found by the Israeli military in tunnels near Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip "were to be released during the first stage of the deal of their exchange for [Palestinian] prisoners," but the Israeli prime minister, in the radicals’ words, "opted in favor of the control over the Philadelphi Corridor (a narrow strip of land along Gaza’s border with Egypt - TASS) instead of releasing his hostages."
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