1/8/2025–|Last update: 23:32 (Mecca time)
Today, Friday, the leader of the Israeli opposition, Yair Labid, criticized the government of Benjamin Netanyahu after the Al -Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), criticized a video clip showing the Israeli prisoner Avitar David in a bad health as a result of the starvation policy imposed by Tel Aviv on the Strip.
“Every member of the government should watch Avitar’s video today before he goes to sleep, and he tries to fall asleep while thinking about Avitar as he tries to survive inside the tunnel,” Labid said, in a post on the X platform.
The video, which was broadcast by the Al -Qassam Brigades in 3 languages (Arabic, Hebrew and English), showed Avitar in a narrow room and was suffering from severe physical weakness and clarity of his bones as a result of malnutrition.
He also included footage while following him, accompanied by another prisoner, the release of a number of Israeli prisoners during a previous exchange deal that took place last January.
In an implicit message, Al -Qassam presented scenes of children from Gaza showing signs of famine, stressing that the detained prisoners share the same food and water with the people of the besieged sector.
The registration also included statements to Netanyahu, talking about the introduction of “minimum aid”, and statements by National Security Security Minister Intar bin Ghafir saying: “In the next stage, what must be sent to Gaza is bombs.”
Calls to accelerate an exchange deal
A number of the families of the Israeli prisoners, along with released prisoners, called for an immediate deal to exchange the prisoners, holding the Netanyahu government responsible for procrastination.
The Al -Qassam Brigades previously broadcast on February 23, a video clip showing avitar and another in a car belonging to it, watching the handover ceremony of Israeli prisoners in a state of amazement and turmoil.
At that time, the Asir sent a touching message to Netanyahu, saying: “Please, save us until we return to our homes … We have destroyed our lives … they returned us to our homes, this is what we want.”
On July 6, a new round of negotiations between Hamas and Israel began in the Qatari capital, Doha, by Egyptian and Qatari support and American support, with the aim of reaching a ceasefire agreement and a prisoner exchange deal.
But that was before Tel Aviv and Washington announced last week that their teams were summoned from talks to hold consultations, which the observers considered obstructing the negotiation process.
This development comes as international organizations accuse Israel of using starvation policy as a war weapon against more than two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Since last March 2, Israel has stressed the restrictions on the entry of aid, which led to the spread of famine and its arrival in “catastrophic” stages.
Since the outbreak of the genocide war on October 7, 2023, more than 208,000 Palestinians have fallen between a martyr and a wounded, in addition to more than 10,000 missing and hundreds of thousands of displaced people, amid international silence and continuous American support for war.