Israel offers reward for freeing hostages

Israel offers reward for freeing hostages
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full screen Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg/AP/TT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel is offering five million shekels, close to SEK 15 million, as a reward to whoever succeeds in bringing a hostage out of Gaza.

Terrorist-branded Hamas and other Islamist extremist groups are still holding a large number of hostages after the attacks on Israel last year.

“Whoever can get one of the hostages out will be helped by us (Israel) to leave Gaza, together with his family, safely,” Netanyahu said in a video recording, where he also promised the reward.

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