Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is responsible for the fate of Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip after the start of the Israeli ground offensive in Gaza City, the Palestinian Islamist movement "Hamas" said, quoted by DPA, BTA reports.
"War criminal Netanyahu" bears full responsibility for the lives of "his prisoners in the Gaza Strip", "Hamas" said on the "Telegram" communication application.
"Hamas" calls the Israeli hostages "prisoners", DPA explains.
"Hamas" also said that "the American government bears direct responsibility for the escalation of the brutal war of annihilation in the Gaza Strip.
The United States supports "a policy of deception aimed at covering up the war crimes of the occupying power, which the world has been witnessing for almost two years", the Palestinian movement said.