The 'terrible instructions' that Hamas gave to the fighters

On September 1, Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages from a tunnel at the Rafah crossing in Gaza. Israel later said that all six had been shot dead at close range a day or two before the rescue.

Hamas spokesman Abu Ubaydah said in an audio message last Monday evening that Hamas fighters have been instructed to shoot and kill any hostage if Israeli soldiers approach them.

Last June, occupying Israel rescued four hostages alive in Nuseirat camp in Gaza. But they killed 274 Palestinians to rescue the four. Abu Ubaydah said that after the Nuseirat incident, the soldiers were instructed to kill the hostages.

After rescuing four people from Nuseirat, the Israeli soldiers managed to rescue a 52-year-old hostage named Farhan Al Qadi alive.

Earlier, when the army was rescuing hostages by killing hundreds of Palestinians, ordinary Israelis thought that as the war continued, since the hostages were also being rescued, the war should continue. But the situation changed after the recovery of six bodies on September 1. Thousands of Israelis took to the streets to demand a cease-fire deal with Hamas. They continued to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

But Netanyahu, accused of war crimes, ignored the pressure. He announced the following evening that troops would not be withdrawn from the Philadelphia Corridor along the Gaza-Egypt border. There is no ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, mainly over the presence of Israeli troops on the Gaza-Egypt border. Hamas says the occupiers must withdraw all troops if they want a ceasefire. Netanyahu, on the other hand, says that if they withdraw troops from the Philadelphia corridor, Hamas will use the border to bring in weapons again.

According to CNN, the new strategy taken by Hamas has created a new phase in the war. Complicated with the hostage problem.