CAIRO:
Hamas
said on Thursday it was holding an Israeli colonel captured on Oct. 7, who Israel had previously reported was killed in the attacks that day.
The Hamas armed wing Al Qassem Brigades said Colonel
Asaf Hamami
had been wounded during his capture. It supplied no proof, and did not specify whether he was still alive now. The Israeli military reported months ago that Hamami, 41, a
brigade
commander, had been killed in the
October 7
attacks and his body was being held in
Gaza
.