Captive died due to Israeli-induced panic attacks in Gaza: Resistance

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Agencies
17 Nov 2023 21:21
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An Israeli captive died due to panic attacks he kept suffering while in captivity as the Israeli occupation forces continued to bomb where he was located.

Israeli captive Aryeh Zalman Zedmanovich while in captivity (Military media)

Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas Resistance movement, said Friday that it transported several Israeli captives to care centers due to their dire health condition after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that the captives were in Gaza's hospitals.

The Resistance disputed Netanyahu's claims because the Israeli occupation forces have been using the false pretext that the Palestinian Resistance is keeping captives in hospitals and even using them to store military equipment to give legitimacy to their attacks and stifling sieges of hospitals in Gaza.

The Al-Qassam Brigades underlined that Israeli captive Arye Zalmanovich, whose ID number is 0010185791, was recently taken to a care center because of the habitual panic attacks he would suffer due to the repeated Israeli bombings where he was being held captive.

Zalmanovich was receiving medical attention in captivity, with Al-Qassam sharing footage of him before his death, wherein medical personnel were tending to him.

He kept having panic attacks until they got too much and he wound up dying because of one.

It is also worth noting that according to Haaretz, Zalmanovich was one of the founders of the kibbutz "Nir Oz".

This comes after the al-Qassam Brigades published footage showing a young Israeli settler being tended to while in bed after she underwent a three-hour-long surgery.

The settler said she was receiving food and water and was being taken care of by the Resistance and only asked to be returned home swiftly.

المحتجز "آريه زالمن زدمانوفتش" بطاقة رقم 0010185791 الذي تلقّى الرعاية المكثّفة وبعد تعافيه أُعيد إلى مكان احتجازه وتوفي بسبب نوبات الهلع من جرّاء القصف المتكرّر حول مكان احتجازه، علماً بأنه مصاب بأمراض مزمنة منها القلب.#كتائب_القسام #فلسطين #القسام #غزة pic.twitter.com/9FSXWEEgIB
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A senior Israeli political source said Tuesday that progress has been made on a captive deal and a breakthrough could come in the next 48-72 hours.

The Israeli War Cabinet met on Tuesday night to discuss the deal, the source said after Israeli officials have said as many as 239 Israelis are being held captive in Gaza.

Demonstrations took over "Tel Aviv", on Tuesday, as families of the Israeli captives in the Gaza Strip took to the streets, escalating pressure on the government of Israeli occupation government's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, demanding answers amid conflicting news regarding a possible exchange deal with the Palestinian Resistance, mediated by Egypt and Qatar and with a US blessing.

The settlers protesting Netanyahu's government, carrying pictures of their children who are being held captive in the Strip, demanded "Netanyahu and the government give us answers and measures," stressing that they "no longer have the strength."

Another Israeli settler underscored, "We do not have time to wait any longer. Every day that passes puts the lives of the prisoners in danger."

That said, on November 13, the families of the Israeli settlers taken captive by the Palestinian Resistance during Operation Al-Aqsa Flood underlined during a meeting with the Israeli Knesset committee that the settlers "cannot be left to die once again."

At the beginning of the discussion in the Knesset, the representatives of the captives' families said there was "no moral explanation for the existence of the state."

"We were abandoned once on that cursed Saturday, and we will not allow them not to be returned," the Israeli Maariv website reported.

There has been no prisoner swap deal thus far as the Israeli occupation forces bomb all walks of life in Gaza, including hospitals, schools, and residential buildings. The indiscriminate bombing has already killed several Israeli captives in Gaza.