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topicnews · October 23, 2024

Iran places a Tehran mural threatening not to release Israeli hostages

Iran places a Tehran mural threatening not to release Israeli hostages

Authorities in Tehran released a blood-spattered mural featuring photos of Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7, with the text “No hostage will be released” in Hebrew, Iran International and local media reported.

The mural was reportedly installed in Palestine Square in Tehran on Tuesday Tehran Times.

Photos of the hostages include Noa Argamani, who, despite the caption of Tehran on the mural, was freed along with three other hostages by IDF soldiers in an operation in June.

FORMER HOSTAGES (clockwise from top left) Almog Meir Jan, Noa Argamani, Andrey Kozlov and Shlomi Ziv are back in Israel after being rescued in June. (Source: IDF/Reuters)

The future of a hostage deal

Tehran, a Hamas ally, has launched two massive airstrikes on the Jewish state since the war began and was recently caught paying Israeli citizens and residents to carry out assassinations and espionage on behalf of the Islamic Republic.

Since Hamas’ October 7 attack, Iranian-backed proxies have launched their own waves of attacks on Israel – resulting in the IDF now conducting ground operations in Lebanon.

The mural was created as hostage families expressed grave uncertainty over a future hostage ceasefire agreement following the elimination of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. Some families believe Sinwar’s death will open up new diplomatic opportunities for the return of their loved ones.

Former Israeli hostage taker Gershon Baskin, who campaigned for Gilad Schalit’s release in 2011, told the Telegraph that Sinwar’s death “could mark a moment of doom because there are rumors that Sinwar ordered people who were holding hostages to that if he were to be killed, they should kill their hostages.”

The unconfirmed rumors didn’t stop Baskin from claiming that Sinwar’s death could be a “moment of opportunity in which Israel…” could offer “free passage for himself and his people to anyone holding a hostage who releases them.” Family from Gaza is granted land and a lot of money to another place.”



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