Follow-up – Al-Rashid
The spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, Abu Ubaida, announced today, Friday, the killing of 7 Israeli prisoners, along with the groups assigned to protect them, as a result of the ongoing Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip.
Abu Ubaida said in a statement on his Telegram channel: “We previously announced that our contact has been cut off with our mujahideen who are guarding a number of enemy prisoners in our honest sector, and that we believe that a number of prisoners have been killed as a result of the Zionist bombing.”
He added: “After examination and scrutiny during recent weeks, we have confirmed the martyrdom of a number of our mujahideen and the killing of seven enemy prisoners in the Gaza Strip as a result of the Zionist bombing, including: Haim Gershon Peri, Yoram Itak Metzger, and Amiram Israel Cooper.” We will later announce the names of the other four dead after confirming his identity.”
Abu Ubaida stressed that “the number of enemy prisoners who were killed as a result of the military operations of the enemy army in the Gaza Strip may exceed seventy prisoners. We have been keen all along to preserve the lives of the prisoners, but it has become clear that the enemy leadership is deliberately killing its prisoners to get rid of this file.”
He stressed, “At the same time, we affirm that the price we will take for five or ten living prisoners is the same price we would have taken for all the prisoners if the enemy’s bombing operations had not killed them.”
