Abu Obeida: New instructions for the guards of the occupation prisoners, and their families must choose between two options

Abu Obeida, the official spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, revealed today, Monday, that new instructions were issued to the guards of the Israeli prisoners in the Gaza Strip after the "Nuseirat incident." While Abu Obeida held the occupation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responsible for the deaths of the prisoners, he asked their families to choose between returning them dead or alive.

Through his official Telegram channel, Abu Obeida stressed that Benjamin Netanyahu and the occupation army "alone bear full responsibility for the killing of prisoners after they deliberately disrupted any prisoner exchange deal for narrow interests, in addition to deliberately killing dozens of them through direct air strikes."

Abu Obeida added: “We tell everyone clearly that after the Nuseirat incident, new instructions were issued to the mujahideen tasked with guarding the prisoners regarding how to deal with them if the occupation army approaches the place where they are being held,” referring to the massacre committed by the occupation in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip last June, which claimed the lives of hundreds of martyrs and wounded in order to retrieve four prisoners.

Abu Obeida also warned that "Netanyahu's insistence on releasing the prisoners through military pressure instead of concluding a deal will mean their return to their families in coffins," calling on the families of the Israeli prisoners to "choose either dead or alive."

Al-Qassam Brigades broadcasts speech by Israeli detainee
In addition, the Al-Qassam Brigades broadcast a televised speech by an Israeli detainee who was among the six detainees whose bodies were found by the occupation army in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, last Saturday. The detainee said in her speech: "Hello, I am Idan Yerushalmi, 24 years old, from Tel Aviv. I was arrested on October 7th at a party in Ri'in. I address you, Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli government. Do what is necessary to release me now."

Host: "We are all suffering here, the bombing here does not stop, we are afraid for our lives and afraid to die here. I am addressing you, Benjamin Netanyahu, who freed more than 1,000 prisoners in the Shalit deal. Now they are asking for less than a quarter from each of us. I am unable to understand... Am I worth less?"

She continued: "I am a citizen of the State of Israel who has fulfilled and continues to fulfill her duties to the state. Why am I still here? I ask all the people of Israel... go out to the streets and demonstrate, shout what we cannot shout. We are suffering here and we want to return to our homes and our families. Everything that happened was because of the failure of the State of Israel and the security services on October 7." She concluded: "I address my family, for whom I have all my love. I miss you, my father, my mother, my sisters Shani and Mai. I love you very much and I miss you very much."

The Israeli occupation army announced last Saturday that it had found the bodies of six detainees in the Gaza Strip, noting that it needed hours to confirm their identities, before army spokesman Daniel Hagari announced yesterday, Sunday, that the bodies belonged to Carmel Gat, Aden Yerushalmi, Hersh Goldberg Polin, Alexander Lubnov, Almog Sarousi, and officer Uri Danino. He claimed that the detainees were killed shortly before the occupation forces arrived at them by Hamas fighters.

The Israeli occupation army's announcement that it had found the bodies of the detainees sparked unprecedented anger among the families of the detainees, who considered it a deliberate move by the occupation government's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to sabotage the prisoner and detainee exchange deal and the ceasefire.

On August 15, Abu Obeida announced that after investigating the killing of an enemy prisoner by his guard on the 12th of the same month, “it became clear that the soldier in charge of guarding the prisoner acted in a vengeful manner, contrary to instructions, after receiving news of the martyrdom of his two children in one of the enemy’s massacres.” Abu Obeida stressed, in a statement broadcast on his Telegram channel, that “the incident does not represent our ethics and the teachings of our religion in dealing with prisoners, and we will tighten the instructions after the incident has been repeated in two cases so far.”

He added: "We hold the enemy fully responsible for all the suffering and dangers that its prisoners are exposed to as a result of its violation of all the rules of humane and humanitarian treatment and its practice of brutal genocide against our people," while the Qassam Brigades circulated a picture of the Israeli victim under the title "Unfortunate incident," accompanied by the phrases "Your brutality has become an imminent danger to your prisoners," and "Time is running out..." in Arabic, English, and Hebrew.

(New Arab)