US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken commented – today, Monday – on the time spent by Israeli detainees in the Gaza Strip, expressing his sympathy for them and noting that they have completed 100 days in detention in the Strip, while ignoring talk about the tragic conditions of more than two million and 300 thousand Palestinians in the Strip.
Blinken said in a post on his account on the X platform, “100 days of captivity in Gaza is a very long time.”
He stressed that “the United States will not rest until all the remaining hostages are reunited with their loved ones, including the six Americans” detained in Gaza.
Blinken ignored talk about the catastrophic humanitarian conditions of more than two million and 300 thousand Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, living under the burden of war, and about 25 thousand martyrs who fell in Gaza during 100 days of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, and more than 60 thousand others wounded, most of them children and women.
The spokesman for the Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Abu Ubaida, announced in a speech broadcast by Tel Aviv Tribune yesterday that the fate of many Israeli prisoners in Gaza “has become unknown in recent weeks” and that some of them were likely killed recently as a result of Israeli bombing. .
On October 7, 2023, the Palestinian resistance, led by the Al-Qassam Brigades, carried out an attack on the settlements surrounding the Gaza Strip, in which about 1,200 Israelis were killed, about 5,431 were injured, and at least 239 were captured.
Israel estimates the number of its prisoners still held by the Palestinian resistance in Gaza at 137, according to media reports and statements by Israeli officials.