U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Sunday said that Hamas leaders be held accountable for the killing of six hostages in Gaza, whom he said had been murdered in a vicious manner by the terrorist group.
Austin held a phone discussion with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Sept. 1 following the recovery of six hostages’ bodies in an underground tunnel in Gaza’s Rafah. One of the hostages was 23-year-old U.S. citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin.
The Pentagon chief extended his deepest condolences to the families of the slain hostages, according to a Defense Ministry readout, and also to the families of three Israeli police officers who were killed in a terrorist attack in the West Bank also on Sept. 1….