1/9/2024–|Last update: 1/9/202410:10 PM (Makkah Time)
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), broadcast a video message holding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responsible for the six prisoners killed in Gaza, after the occupation army announced the recovery of the bodies of six detainees after they were found inside a tunnel in the Gaza Strip.
Al-Qassam admitted – at the beginning of the video – that the prisoners who were killed were actually alive and were supposed to be released as part of the first phase of the deal that has been under discussion for months to cease fire in Gaza and exchange prisoners.
In a message to the Israeli community, she said, “Netanyahu chose the Philadelphia axis at the expense of freeing your prisoners,” and quoted Netanyahu as saying, “If I had to choose between Philadelphia and returning the kidnapped (prisoners), I would choose Philadelphia.”
Al-Qassam Brigades condemned the idea of retrieving the prisoners as corpses as a great achievement, asking, “What kind of heroism is this? You are retrieving them as corpses after you killed them deliberately.”
The Qassam Brigades concluded its video message by saying 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.”
Earlier today, the Israeli occupation army announced the recovery of the bodies of 6 detainees after they were found inside a tunnel in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, confirming their identities, while US President Joe Biden expressed his sadness over the death of one of them, Hirsch Goldberg Bolin, who holds American citizenship.
For its part, Hamas announced that the prisoners were killed by the ongoing Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, and held the Netanyahu government and the US administration responsible for their deaths and the deaths of the prisoners who preceded them.
Last April, the Al-Qassam Brigades published a video recording of the prisoner Paulin, in which he attacked the Netanyahu government and accused it of negligence and failure to work to release him and the rest of the detainees.
