After Netanyahu's speech, "Al-Qassam" broadcasts a final message from an Israeli prisoner before she was killed in Gaza

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), broadcast a message on Monday from a slain 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 touched on the exchange deal that Netanyahu concluded with Hamas in 2011 to release the captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, under which more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners were released.

"Right now they are asking for less than a quarter from each of us, so am I worth less?" she asked, renewing her talk about why she is in captivity amidst the non-stop bombing and fear of death.

She pointed out that she is "a citizen of the State of Israel", and drew attention to the extent of the suffering experienced by Israeli prisoners in Gaza, while demanding at the same time to return to her home and family.

She called on the Israelis to take to the streets to pressure Netanyahu to reach a deal under which the prisoners would return to their homes, and she also sent an emotional message to her family.

Netanyahu's speech

The publication of these photos came after a lengthy speech by Netanyahu in which he said that he would not abandon the Philadelphi Corridor 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.

It also came after a picture published by Al-Qassam showing one of its fighters holding his pistol in his hand in front of an Israeli prisoner, with clear phrases in Arabic and Hebrew: “Military pressure equals death and failure. Exchange deal equals freedom and life.”

Hours ago, Qassam broadcast pictures of the six Israeli prisoners, and said 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.”

(Al Jazeera)