The video recording broadcast by the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades (the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas) yesterday, Monday, of the Israeli soldier captured by it in the Gaza Strip, Avira Mengistu, opens the door to the file of the prisoners of the occupation soldiers of the Palestinian resistance.
Hamas announced that it had 4 Israeli soldiers in its possession, but did not disclose their fate, while Israel says that they are corpses or civilians.
In the following report, we learn about the captured soldiers of the Palestinian resistance:
Shaul Aron
The first of these soldiers, Shaul Aron, 30, joined the Israeli army and worked in the Elite Brigade on the border with the Gaza Strip. He participated in the war on the Strip in 2014, during which he was captured by Al-Qassam Brigades fighters on July 20.
Israel says that Aaron was killed, but his family refuses to accept this account, and since his capture until now, Hamas has not provided any information about him.
Hadar Golden
The second prisoner of the resistance is soldier Hadar Goldin (32 years old), who is a second lieutenant in the Givati Brigade in the Israeli occupation army.
The resistance managed to capture Godin on the first of August 2014 in the Rafah area in the southern Gaza Strip, and Israel committed a massacre in Rafah in response to the capture of Goldin, in which more than 100 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed.
Avira Mengistu
As for Avira Mengistu (36 years old), he was captured by the resistance a few weeks after the end of the war, specifically on September 7, 2014, after he crossed the separation fence in the northern Gaza Strip, where its traces disappeared after that.
Mengistu was born in Ethiopia, then his family immigrated to Israel at the age of 5 and resided in the city of Ashkelon. His family says that he is psychologically disturbed and was discharged from the army.
His family accused the Israeli government several times of deliberately neglecting their son for racial reasons, as he is of Ethiopian descent.
Al-Qassam Brigades said 5 years after his arrest that Israel did not demand the return of Mengistu through the mediators who spoke with it about the detainees.
Hisham Al-Sayed
The fourth prisoner is Hisham Al-Sayed (37 years), a Palestinian from the Negev who holds Israeli citizenship. Occupation sources say that he entered the Gaza Strip in the spring of 2015 through a gap in the separating fence towards the northern Strip.
He volunteered in the Israeli army in 2008 and was released from service months later. Palestinian sources say that he completed his high school studies and volunteered to serve in the Israeli army in 2008. He was discharged in the same year because he was not fit for service.
What has appeared so far officially is a video clip published by the Al-Qassam Brigades in late June, showing the captive Israeli soldier Hisham Al-Sayed on his sick bed and showing his military card.