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A video showed an Israeli child released in a prisoner exchange between Israel and the Palestinian resistance factions in the Gaza Strip, talking about the rosary given to him by his guards from the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), chanting words of praise, praise and cheering.
Ohad Monder gave an interview to Hebrew Channel 13 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, and an excerpt from the dialogue between the presenter and the child and his father was as follows:
Announcer: Have you learned a little bit of Arabic?
Child: a little.
Announcer: Any words, for example?
Child: cucumber (wrapped in Hebrew).
Parent: And this "blessing"?
His father: You were also saying a prayer through the blessing.
Child: Rosary? Their religious necklace they call a rosary.
Announcer: Rosary?
Child: Yes, the rosary they do it like this (performing movements with his fingers). They pray and say supplications and teach me what to say. That was fun.
Announcer: You say what?
Child: "Hallelujah, praise be to Allah, there is no god but Allah, Allahu Akbar."
The Israeli channel highlighted three prisoners still in the Gaza Strip, Haim Perry, Amiram Cooper and Avraham Monder, hosting their grandchildren to talk about their memories.
Avraham Munder is the grandfather of Ohad, whom the channel interviewed to talk about the conditions of his detention in Gaza, as he said that he felt longing for his family and friends, and that he always remembered his father when he whistled at him, joked with him and played with him.
"My grandfather Abraham was playing with me and hugging me, so I feel pain and fear for his fate, I don't know every second that passes what will happen to him. I always think about my grandfather and am afraid of bombing. When I'm alone I think about it a lot. What worries me most about my grandfather are the IDF airstrikes."
"I want to say something to all Israelis: think your grandfather is in captivity, don't you want him to come back to you now?"
Munder was among those released by Hamas on November 24 after he was detained from the settlement of Nir Oz along with his mother Kerin, grandfather Abraham and grandmother Ruthie during Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7.
תיעוד ראשון שמפרסם חמאס של שחרור החטופים הישראלים. איש הזרוע הצבאית שם יד על אוהד מונדר, בן 9 pic.twitter.com/hbvDgK73cw
— Suleiman Maswadeh סולימאן מסוודה (@SuleimanMas1) November 24, 2023
Video footage documented the first meeting between the child and his father after 49 days spent with his guards from the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' military-terrorist wing in the Gaza Strip.
On October 13, the military media of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades published a video showing the way its fighters dealt with children, showing how its fighters dealt with Israeli children during the battles in Kibbutz Holit on the first day of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
The footage included a fighter playing with a child, another holding two babies in his hands, and a third shaking a baby cot to help him sleep.
An Israeli settler recounted how Palestinian resistance fighters refused to harm her and her children during Operation Flood Al-Aqsa.
Rotem, a mother of two, spoke to Israel's Channel 12 about the moment Qassam elements stormed her home, if one of the fighters told her, "Don't worry, we are Muslims, we will not harm you."
Agham said of Hamas' treatment of her, "Women are sacred to them, there are treats like queens," while her mother said that members of the resistance called Agham "a beautiful name, a very beautiful Arabic name, which is Salsabil."
Press Coverage | Two prisoners released from Gaza: The resistance allowed us to play sports and taught the children new games, including "hardship paper", and they called one of us "Salsabil", and the woman is sacred and queen, and one of them put a towel on his hands so that he would not touch me when we played "fencing hands". pic.twitter.com/wpEYeGDfSm
— Quds News Network (@qudsn) December 23, 2023
Agam expressed her admiration for the name, saying, "This means water, it is mentioned in the Qur'an, sweet water like this, what a coincidence, my name in Israel is Agham, and it means lake."
Mosh Lamberg, a 17-year-old Israeli girl, also spoke about the period of captivity with Hamas, which allowed her dog Bella to be with her throughout her detention, which greatly eased her and served as moral support, she said.
"Hamas members fed the dog what was left of their food, and made sure that she was doing her biological needs in an isolated part of the place where they were, and then cleaned it, so there was no smell or any residue," her father said.
Source : Al Jazeera + Social Media