Auburn's Bruce Pearl slams Hamas terrorists after 3 Israeli hostages are released

Three hostages reunited with their families after more than 15 months in captivity. (Credit: Israel Foreign Ministry)

Auburn Tigers men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl sent a fiery message on social media on Sunday in response to a video that apparently showed Hamas terrorists handing over three Israeli hostages to the Red Cross.

The video showed the hostages moving from one vehicle to the next in between a large crowd of Hamas militants holding guns and chanting "Allah Akbar." The gunmen then stood on top of the vehicle.

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Bruce Pearl (Dale Zanine-Imagn Images)

Pearl didn’t appear pleased.

"This is what giving Palestinians Autonomy looks like. Does it look like they want peace?" he wrote on X. "They made war, murdered and raped, built tunnels and hid under their people, launched rockets from living rooms, then screamed genocide. RELEASE HOSTAGES NOW, then live in peace or leave town."

Pearl is not one to shy away from his support for Israel. He has been among the most outspoken sports figures about the issue.

Israel’s Cabinet approved a deal early Saturday morning for a cease-fire in Gaza that would include the release of dozens of hostages and pause the war with Hamas that began after the terror group's Oct. 7, 2023, attack on the Jewish state.

Former hostage British-Israeli Emily Damari and her mother, Mandy, hold a video call with Emily's brother, Tom Damari, and other loved ones on the day Emily was released from captivity in a hostage-prisoner deal between Hamas and Israel on Jan. 19, 2025.

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The deal would allow 33 hostages to be set free over the next six weeks in exchange for