Your children will return in coffins torn apart by Israeli missiles: Hamas to captives’ families

The military wing of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has warned the families of the Israeli captives remaining in the Gaza Strip that their relatives might soon be killed as a result of the Israeli regime’s relentless bombardment of the coastal sliver.

In a video message released on Tuesday, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades directly addressed the families, saying the regime’s ongoing war of genocide on Gaza, which has featured countless indiscriminate attacks throughout the territory, was putting the captives’ lives in jeopardy.

“Dear families of the captives: Be prepared. Soon your children will return in black coffins, with their bodies torn apart by shrapnel from your army’s missiles,” the Hamas’ wing stated. “Prepare their burial places now. Your leadership has signed the decision to execute the captives in the Gaza Strip. Wait and you will see.”

The video featured Hamas’ fighters’ handing over the bodies of those of the captives, who had been killed as a result of the war.

The statement came hours after Hamas announced that it had lost contact with the unit tasked with holding Israeli-American trooper Edan Alexander, one of the captives, due to heavy Israeli air and ground attacks throughout Gaza.

Hamas says lost contact with group holding Israeli-American captive in Gaza

Hamas says it has lost contact with the group guarding an Israeli-American captive in the Gaza Strip following an Israeli strike on their location in the besieged territory.

Abu Obeida, spokesperson for al-Qassam Brigades, said that the team of resistance fighters responsible for the captive, might have been killed in an Israeli attack, adding that “there is a real possibility that the captive has also been killed.”

Hamas has repeatedly warned that the continued genocidal onslaught was making it increasingly difficult to keep the captives alive or even to know their condition.

As many as 240 Israeli captives were ensnared during Operation al-Aqsa Storm on October 7, 2023, when Gaza’s resistance groups launched a coordinated retaliatory operation against decades of Israeli occupation and oppression.

Following the operation, the Israeli regime launched the devastating war that has so far killed around 51,000 Palestinians, the majority of them women and children, and injured tens of thousands of others.

The Israeli regime claims it is attempting to recover the captives, but its military campaign has instead endangered their lives, with numerous testimonies and evidence indicating that Israeli airstrikes had killed both Palestinian civilians and scores of the captives themselves.

33 Zionist captives killed because of ‘criminal Netanyahu, his fascist army’: Hamas

Hamas says the death toll among the Zionist captives held in Gaza has risen to 33 as a result of Israeli aggression and the resistance’s reaction to the regime’s genocidal war.

Despite mounting pressure, including from families of the captives themselves, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has identified the warfare as the sole means of returning the captives, and saying military attacks would continue until “total victory” was achieved.

Hamas that has released many of the captives so far as part of an exchange process has, however, repeatedly stated its willingness to negotiate another exchange if the regime ended its military aggression and lifted a simultaneous stifling blockade it has been deploying on Gaza.

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