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its silence and broadcasting video clips of the Israeli prisoner Hisham Al-Sayed, yesterday, Tuesday;

Hamas has escalated its psychological war against Israel, which is facing internal crises that prevented the inclusion of a new exchange deal on its political agenda.

The Palestinian resistance in Gaza is engaged in a psychological war with the Israeli occupation;

The messages you sent through the video of the prisoner Al-Sayed would push the Israeli society to put pressure on its political levels, especially with the presence of 3 Jewish prisoners alongside the Arab Hisham Al-Sayed, including two soldiers who were captured during the aggression on Gaza in the summer of 2014.

The soldier in the occupation army, Hisham Al-Sayed, as described by the Al-Qassam Brigades, which showed pictures of him in a state of fatigue (communication sites)

Reduce fallout

In an attempt to reduce the repercussions of the scenes of al-Sayyid, who seemed to be in a state of severe fatigue, on the Israeli scene, especially since this coincided with the dissolution of the Israeli Knesset and the heading for new elections;

The ministers and leaders of the Jewish parties in the opposition remained silent, and did not respond to Hamas' account of the deteriorating health condition of a prisoner who holds an Israeli identity card.

On the other hand, the Israeli government - represented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - sought to reduce the repercussions of the psychological war that Hamas is waging in the file of the Israeli prisoners it is holding in order to exchange them for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry has promoted in the international community that Hamas is detaining civilians in a way that contravenes international conventions, as it put it.

Commenting on al-Sayed's video, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett quickly accused Hamas of detaining "psychologically disturbed and sick civilians, in contravention of all international conventions and laws."

In an attempt to reduce the impact of the video clips on the political reality and the Israeli party map in the parliamentary elections that were decided at the end of the year, Bennett considered that broadcasting a video clip of a sick prisoner was a "heinous and desperate act", and held Hamas responsible for the situation of the "captive civilians."

In reference to the Israeli of Ethiopian descent, Abraham Mengistu, who is also captured by Hamas.

In response to the Israelis who accuse successive Israeli governments of obstructing the exchange deal, the Israeli Prime Minister claimed that "Hamas is obstructing any opportunity to reach an agreement on a prisoner exchange deal."

And these developments were preceded by the Israeli media, about two months ago, revealing that the last serious attempt to reach a prisoner exchange agreement - and it was very close to concluding it - took place in late 2018, but it was estimated that the then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reserved and refrained from concluding the deal.


wake up call

According to the Israeli version, the four prisoners held by the Palestinian resistance in Gaza are two soldiers that Israel considers dead, Hadar Goldin and Shaul Aron, in addition to two civilians who are considered alive by the Israeli authorities, Abraham Mengistu of Ethiopian descent and Hisham al-Sayed from the 48 Palestinians, who holds Israeli citizenship. .

Al-Qassam Brigades captured soldier Aaron in an operation against the occupation army east of Al-Tuffah neighborhood, which took place on July 20, 2014, during the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, while soldier Golden was captured in the Rafah area (south of the sector) on August 1, 2014.

The former coordinator of prisoners’ affairs in the Israeli army, Moshe Tal, commented on his tweet, on his tweet by the al-Qassam Brigades spokesman Abu Obeida, regarding the health of an Israeli prisoner in al-Qassam on Tuesday, saying that “Hamas’ announcement of a deterioration in the health of one of the prisoners is a wake-up call.”

Tal's statements were received on Tuesday morning in an interview with the official Israeli radio (Kan), and about the messages carried by Abu Obeida's tweet, the former coordinator of prisoners' affairs said that "the unusual announcement is a ladder that allows Hamas to descend from the tree in relation to their claim that one of the two soldiers is alive." .

He added, "For 8 years, sick civilians have been detained without medical treatment. There is a whole set of tools that can limit and reduce the number of prisoners who will be released in the next deal in exchange for Israeli soldiers."

The Palestinian resistance succeeded in releasing hundreds of prisoners in an exchange deal in exchange for Corporal Gilad Shalit in 2011 (Al-Jazeera)

To stir stagnant water

This comes at a time when the Israeli radio quoted a security source as saying that "there is no new intelligence information about the prisoners" with Hamas.

The military correspondent for the Israeli Channel 12, Nir Devweren, said that the video in which al-Sayed appeared is an attempt by Hamas to stir the stagnant waters in the file of prisoners, and to put pressure on the Israeli government in the issue of releasing Palestinian prisoners.

He explained that the timing of the publication - which coincides with the dissolution of the Knesset, the dismantling of the government coalition, the heading for new elections, and the deepening of internal crises in Israel - aims to put pressure on decision-makers to conclude a new exchange deal in accordance with Hamas' demands.

The military correspondent played down the repercussions of the psychological war that Hamas is waging against Israel, and attributed this to the fact that the video was not of the soldiers Hadar Goldin or Shaul Aron, as Israel was looking for any evidence that they were alive.

According to the reporter, the video in which the captive al-Sayed appeared reinforces Israel's convictions that they are not alive.

In 2011, the Palestinian resistance succeeded in releasing hundreds of prisoners in Israeli prisons, including a large number of life sentences, in an exchange deal in exchange for the release of its captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit.