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Al-Qassam Brigades: Israeli brutality imminent danger to Israeli captives

Friday, 16 August 2024 2:32 AM [ Last Update: Friday, 16 August 2024 2:32 AM ]

Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on the al-Tabi’in school in the al-Daraj neighborhood in the east of Gaza City sheltering displaced people on August 10, 2024. (Photo by Reuters)

The military wing of the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, says Israel is fully responsible for the suffering and threats posed to its captives in Gaza.

The spokesman for the al-Qassam Brigades made the remarks on Thursday days after an Israeli captive was killed and two others wounded by Palestinian guards.

Abu Obeida said the death of the Israeli captive was the result of the regime’s violation of all humanitarian rules and its brutal genocide against the people of Gaza.

The spokesman added that the resistance fighter who killed the Israeli captive acted in retaliation.

"The (Hamas) soldier assigned as a guard acted in a retaliatory manner, against instructions, after he received information that his two children were martyred in one of the massacres conducted by the enemy," Abu Obeida said on Telegram.

"The incident doesn't represent our ethics and the instructions of our religion in dealing with captives. We will reinforce the instructions," he added.

In a later message on its official Telegram channel, the al-Qassam Brigades posted: "Your brutality is an imminent danger to your prisoners."

The incident followed the regime’s massacring of more than 120 people in an attack on the prayer hall of the al-Tabaeen School in Gaza City during a mass prayer at dawn.

The carnage came during an ongoing genocidal war that the regime has been waging on Gaza since October 7 last year.

More than 40,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed in the brutal military onslaught that followed a retaliatory operation staged by the territory’s resistance groups during which some 240 people were taken captive.