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Israel releases video of a Gaza tunnel where it says militants killed 6 hostages

JERUSALEM (AP) 鈥 The Israeli military has released video footage of a Gaza tunnel where it says six hostages were recently killed by Hamas. The video shows a low, narrow passageway deep underground that had no bathroom and poor ventilation.

JERUSALEM (AP) 鈥 The Israeli military has released video footage of a Gaza tunnel where it says by Hamas. The video shows a low, narrow passageway deep underground that had no bathroom and poor ventilation.

The discovery of the hostages鈥 bodies last month sparked a in Israel and the release of the new video could add to the pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a cease-fire deal with Hamas to bring the remaining hostages home.

Israeli military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Tuesday the footage of the Gaza tunnel had been shown to the hostages鈥 families, and that it 鈥渨as very hard for them to see how their loved ones survived in those conditions.鈥

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Melzer contributed from Nahariya, Israel.

Natalie Melzer And Josef Federman, The Associated Press