Despite the assurances of Israeli military officials that they are doing “everything they can” to avoid harming the prisoners with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in Gaza, an investigation revealed that the Israeli military operations have put the lives of 54 prisoners at direct danger, and caused the killing of at least 20 of them, since the war began on October 7, 2023.
According to an investigation published by the Israeli newspaper “Haaretz”, the occupation forces launched hundreds of raids in areas where prisoners are likely without information confirmed about their sites, which in some cases killed the prisoners.
One of the most prominent examples of this, according to the newspaper, what happened on April 7, 2025, when the Israeli Air Force launched a raid on a building over a tunnel in which the Asir Aidan Alexander and Mattan Zanguker were held. Despite their miraculous survival after the collapse of part of the tunnel while trying to escape, the operation revealed an intelligence failure to determine the places of the prisoners, despite the claims of the military leadership to own accurate information.
“When there is no information about the presence of prisoners, the raid is implemented,” a military source told the newspaper, adding that “the higher the number of strikes, the greater the risk of injury to the prisoners.”
Frequent failure
Many spirals spokeCaptive They are more relevant to their terror from Israeli raids more than their fear of the same families. The thprisoner The editor is a fibrous type, how she was praying every time she heard the zero missiles, and she talked about a moment when she survived after a partial collapse of the house where she was detained.
In another incident, 3 prisoners, Alaon Shamriz, Samer Talalqa and Yaawaf Haim, were killed by the Israeli unit of Golani after they left naked, raising white flags, thinking that they would be saved, but the soldiers were not informed of the presence of prisoners in the area.
Last February, 6 prisoners were killed in Khan Yunis, including Yaghif Bukhashb and Muramager, after Israeli aircraft targeted a tunnel in it, killing them by suffocation of toxic gases caused by the bombing, according to the investigation.
This failure sparked severe discontent among the families of the prisoners regarding what it described as “systematic neglect” by the government and the army. “The prisoners have been left for their fate, our children have been holding 600 days ago, while the government continues to bomb places where they are to be able to achieve political and war goals,” said Enaf Zanguker, the mother of a prisoner.
A blind army
For her part, Miral Sverieski, the sister of the murdered prisoner Itai Sveriesky, said that military officials later admitted that they were not aware of the presence of the prisoners in the targeted building, and admitted that their actions were not sufficient to prevent the accident.
Although a spokesman for the occupation army asserted that “all efforts are made to reduce the risks to the prisoners,” military sources spoke to Harts in violation, and acknowledged that “efforts are not complete” due to the army’s preoccupation with the management of a large -scale military operation that drains resources.
Investigations confirmed that the intelligence information about the prisoners ’sites is often instantaneous, and inspected their validity by simply changing the places of detention, which keeps the army” blind “, according to the expression of one of the sources, noting that” many cases have been modified or canceled as a result of the availability of subsequent intelligence information. “
The families of the demandsCaptive By stopping the war, or at least adjusting its plans to ensure the safety of their children, considering The continuation of military operations “sacrifices our children for the cohesion of the ruling coalition.”