Abu Ubaida, spokesman for the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades - the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) - revealed the identity of 4 Israeli prisoners killed in raids by the Israeli occupation on the Gaza Strip.

In a statement on his Telegram page, Abu Ubaida said, “We previously announced the killing of 7 Zionist prisoners as a result of the barbaric raids on the Gaza Strip, and we revealed the names of 3 of them.”

The Al-Qassam spokesman continued, "After examining the identities of the rest of the dead, we confirmed that Itzik Al-Jarat, Alex Densig, Ronen Tommy Angel, and Eliyahu Margalit were killed."

On March 1, the Al-Qassam Brigades revealed the fate of 3 of its Israeli prisoners.

Abu Ubaida said - at the time - that after “examination and scrutiny during recent weeks, it was confirmed to us that a number of our mujahideen were martyred and 7 enemy prisoners were killed in the Gaza Strip as a result of the Zionist bombing, including: Haim Gershon Peri, Yoram Itak Metzger, and Amiram Israel Cooper.”

The three prisoners confirmed that they participated in establishing the Israeli army and feared that its air force would kill them.

After the publication of Abu Ubaida’s statement, a leading source in the Al-Qassam Brigades stated that one of the three killed was a close friend of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to his confessions while in detention.

Al-Qassam published a drawing below which it wrote: “Netanyahu left his friends to face their fate alone without saving them.”

The occupation kills its prisoners

Al-Qassam had published a video of the three prisoners last December in which they appealed to the Israeli Prime Minister to work to release them from captivity. The video was titled “Don’t let us grow old,” which is the sentence that the prisoners repeated during their message.

Abu Ubaida previously revealed that "the number of enemy prisoners who were killed as a result of the enemy army's military operations in the Gaza Strip may exceed 70 prisoners."

In his written press statement, Abu Ubaida said that Al-Qassam was keen “all the time to preserve the lives of the prisoners, but it has become clear that the enemy leadership is deliberately killing its prisoners to get rid of this file.”

Despite the killing of a number of prisoners in Israeli bombing operations, and to clarify the position of the Al-Qassam Brigades regarding the exchange process, Abu Ubaida stressed that the Al-Qassam’s position is that “the price that we will take in exchange for 5 or 10 living prisoners is the same price that we would have taken in exchange for all the prisoners if we had not Enemy bombing kills them."

Source: Al Jazeera