2/9/2024–|Last update: 2/9/202410:20 PM (Makkah Time)
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), broadcast a message on Monday from a female prisoner who was among six detained prisoners whose bodies were recovered by the occupation army last Saturday from a tunnel in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
The murdered prisoner, Idan Yerushalmi, who hails from Tel Aviv, said that she was arrested from a concert in Re’im on October 7.
Yerushalmi, 24, appealed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government to do everything necessary to secure her release in a prisoner exchange deal.
She called on the Israelis to take to the streets to pressure Netanyahu to reach a deal that would return the prisoners to their homes, and she also sent an emotional message to her family.
The publication of these photos came after a lengthy speech by Netanyahu in which he said that he would not abandon Mahmoud Philadelphi no matter the pressure and that he would not show any flexibility regarding sensitive matters, in response to internal and international pressures demanding that he make concessions to reach a prisoner exchange deal.
Hours ago, Qassam broadcast pictures of the six Israeli prisoners, and said that it would broadcast their last messages before they were killed.
Yesterday, Sunday, Al-Qassam broadcast a message to the Israeli society stating that “Netanyahu chose the Philadelphi Corridor at the expense of liberating your prisoners,” noting that these prisoners were alive but have become a thing of the past, and affirming that Netanyahu is creating dozens of Ron Arads.
On April 23, the spokesman for the Brigades, Abu Obeida, said that “the Ron Arad scenario may be the most likely to be repeated with the enemy’s prisoners in Gaza,” stressing that “the so-called military pressure will only push us to stand firm in our positions and preserve the rights of our people and not relinquish them.”