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Hamas announces pause in hostage releases

Israeli officials called a security meeting and raised the alert level of the IDF

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Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida speaks in Rafah, Gaza on January 31, 2017.

Hamas indefinitely suspended the next hostage releases mandated in its cease-fire deal with Israel, the terrorist group’s spokesman Abu Obeida said on Monday. The next three hostages were due to be released on Saturday.

Abu Obeida, whose real name...

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