Israel National News reports: “A spokesman for the Hamas terrorist organization admitted for the first time Monday evening that Hamas executed the six hostages who were murdered in a tunnel underneath Rafah last week.

According to the spokesperson, ‘The instructions for dealing with hostages will be updated when the IDF approaches the scene.’

The admission comes after days in which sources close to Hamas claimed that the hostages were not murdered by Hamas but were killed by Israeli fire or an Israeli bomb.

On Saturday night, the IDF and ISA located and recovered the bodies of the hostages Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi, and Master Sergeant Ori Danino, from an underground tunnel in the Rafah area in the Gaza Strip and returned them to Israeli territory…”