GAZA, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said on Monday that four Israeli captives in Gaza have been killed in Israeli air raids.
Abu Obida, the spokesperson of the armed group, said in a brief statement that the bombardment of Israeli aircraft overnight and during the day in the Gaza Strip led to the killing of four enemy captives and their captors from the armed wing.
Over the past two days, Israeli warplanes carried out hundreds of airstrikes in various areas of the Gaza Strip, with the sound of huge explosions being heard from time to time and plumes of black smoke rising from the area.
The Israeli army said in a press statement that the Air Force launched hundreds of raids on the Gaza Strip, targeting sites including the operational headquarters of the Hamas movement.
Salama Marouf, head of Hamas' government media office in Gaza, said the raids also targeted residential buildings, homes, mosques, facilities, and schools used as shelter centers.
In a press statement, Marouf said that "the difficult humanitarian reality places responsibility on the international community," calling for urgent intervention of relevant organizations to curb the occupation, "which follows a scorched earth policy in densely populated areas and does not even pay attention to the shelter centers that display the United Nations logo."
