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But Kadiwala, 42, had been deeply shaken by images from Gaza of mass death and destruction and felt a responsibility to act.

"I would take responsibility for that," he said.

Research group Unit 42 said in a note the group had "asserted responsibility for laying siege to customer Salesforce tenants as part of a coordinated effort to steal data and hold it for ransom".

"This defeat should not have happened, and I accept responsibility. I'm here to face the consequences," Stojkovic told a press conference after the match played in the southern town of Leskovac.

Among those responsibilities is determining what the hostages, some of whom may have lost more than half their body weight in captivity, can eat, and how quickly.