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Kamailoudini Tagba Independent Journalist, Freelance Interpreter and Toastmasters worldwide Competent Communicator (CC), speech writer, based in Togo, West Africa Attended Central China Normal University (China), Massachusetts in Linguistics and Communication.
Hamas has not yet commented. “The family is demanding the return of their son in good health”. Lotan refused to answer, “because what they had done with the prime minister was so egregious”.
He said he will meet with the family “soon”. “The Israeli government has failed not only in dealing with the affair on its own account, but also in treating and assisting the family itself”. According to the official, Israel would also agree to help expedite the rehabilitation of the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu talked with the family on Wednesday.
Ilan Mengistu said his brother has a “problematic health situation” but did not elaborate. “He told me they knew my brother was in Gaza, and that they have people who are keeping track of him and will bring him back – but that we should not tell people”.
The second captive is a Bedouin man from Israel’s Negev desert.
Two Israeli citizens are hostages in Gaza, the Israeli Defense Ministry announced Thursday.
“We see Hamas as responsible for bringing him back safely”.
The gag order concerning Mengistu’s case was lifted following a request from the newspaper Haaretz.
Mengistu, 28, is an Ethiopian Israeli, and family members charged that his disappearance and possible capture by Hamas would have been treated far differently if he were not African. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
Israeli security sources said that Hamas bears full responsibility for the life of the Israeli man who was announced to be arrested by Hamas 10 months ago.
Israel has in the past engaged in prisoner swaps with Hamas, most notably in 2011, when Gilad Shalit, a soldier abducted by militants in a cross-border raid in 2006, was released in exchange for more than 1,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails.
The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said that “according to credible intelligence”, Mangisto is being held “against his will” by Hamas.
The probe, ordered in January, was set up to establish whether there was enough evidence for a full-blown war crimes investigation into last year’s conflict in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
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“The blockade remains in place and its crippling effect on Gaza is undeniable, inexcusable”, Robert Turner, operations director in Gaza for United Nations relief agency UNRWA, told reporters. When IDF soldiers rushed to the scene, they quickly ascertained that an Israeli had entered Gaza. There is no current information about his fate, raising the possibility that he may no longer be alive or that he is being held by a more radical organization in Gaza or in the Sinai, where Islamic State-linked gunmen have been battling Egyptian soldiers.
