Hamas spokesperson Abu Ubaida has said that the fate of many Israeli hostages has become unknown, Reuters reports.

In his first televised appearance for several weeks, marking the 100th day since the start of the bombardment, Abu Ubaida said many of the hostages “may have been killed”, blaming their fate on Israel.

He added, “any talks before stopping the Israeli aggression are worthless.”

The October 7 cross-border attack into Israel came in response to 100 years of “massacres against our people carried by the occupier and its gangs,” he added.

Abu Ubaida said that during the bombardment, fighters of the Hamas fighter group attacked and took out of service about 1,000 Israeli vehicles.

Speaking on the possibility of an expansion of attacks, Abu Ubaida added that the group had been told by “several parties in the resistance fronts that they will expand their strikes on the Israeli enemy in the coming days.”