Baku-APA. A news agency close to Hamas has claimed that an Israeli soldier who went missing during Israel’s 2014 war on Gaza is still alive -- despite earlier Israel said that he had been killed in battle, APA reports quoting Anadolu Agency.
On Monday, the Gaza-based SAFA news agency quoted an anonymous source as saying Oron Shaul had "fainted" when he learned about the death of his father, who passed away Friday after a long struggle with illness.
On July 20, 2014, Hamas’ armed wing announced that it had captured Shaul in Gaza City’s eastern Shajaiyya district.
Israeli officials, for their part, said Shaul had been killed in the fighting in Gaza and that Hamas was holding his dead body.
It remains unclear until now whether the soldier is alive or dead.
Monday’s report by SAFA was the first time for a source close to Hamas to suggest that Shaul was in fact still alive.
Aside from the quote by the anonymous source, the news agency provided no further details.
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