Former captive Yarden Bibas – whose wife, Shiri, and sons, Kfir and Ariel, were killed while being held in Gaza – says the resumption of the war endangers the lives of the remaining captives.

The Israeli government has said the Bibas children were murdered by their captors while Hamas maintains they were killed in an Israeli air strike.

“Israel’s decision to return to fighting brings me back to Gaza, to the moments where I heard the sounds of explosions around me and where I feared for my life as I was afraid that the tunnel where I was being held would collapse,” Bibas said in a social media post.

“My wife and children were kidnapped alive and were brutally murdered in captivity. The military pressure endangers the hostages while an agreement brings them home,” he added.

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Source: AJE Live blog