Government regrets death of Portuguese Hamas hostage

The Portuguese government said this Friday that it “very much regrets” the death of the Portuguese-Israeli citizen held hostage in the Gaza Strip since October 7, but states that it does not have access to further information because the victim had received medical attention ” for all purposes.” “, like an Israeli.

According to an official Foreign Ministry source, the case is being treated “in essence” as that of an Israeli citizen, meaning the Portuguese leader does not have “access to any information.”

“The Portuguese government deeply regrets the death” of the national and “reiterates its demand for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages, especially those with Portuguese nationality,” the same source said. When asked whether there had already been contact between the Portuguese government and the Israeli executive regarding these cases, she replied that “nothing.”

Israeli hostage of Portuguese nationality Dror Or, detained in the Gaza Strip following the Hamas attacks on October 7, has been declared dead, Israeli authorities and family members said today.

“It has now been confirmed that Dror Or, abducted by Hamas on October 7, has been killed and his body is being held in the Gaza Strip,” the Israeli government said on its official social media account X (formerly Twitter), adding that Alma, Noam and his Yakhli’s brother is now an orphan.

Dror Or, 49, was killed and his body held in the Gaza Strip since October 7, authorities at Kibbutz Be’eri, where he lived and whose residents were among the hardest hit by the outbreak, said in a statement. Attack of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on Israeli territory.

Dror’s wife Ora was killed in the attack, and two of her three sons, ages 17 and 13, were kidnapped and later released under a truce agreement between Israel and Hamas in late November.

The announcement of Dror Or’s death comes as mediator countries Qatar, the United States and Egypt await Hamas’s response to a new truce proposal coupled with the release of hostages.

The news of the death of a citizen of Portuguese nationality was reported by The Guardian newspaper.

At the end of November, a week-long truce allowed the release of 105 hostages, including 80 Israelis with dual citizenship, in exchange for 240 Palestinians detained by Israel.

The war erupted on October 7 when Hamas commandos carried out an attack that killed 1,170 people, most of them civilians, according to an Agence France-Presse (AFP) report based on official Israeli figures.

More than 250 people have been kidnapped and 129 remain detained in the Gaza Strip, of whom 35 have died.

In response, Israel vowed to destroy Hamas and launched a large-scale offensive in the Gaza Strip that has already killed more than 34,500 people, most of them civilians, according to the Palestinian Movement’s Health Ministry.