Israeli captives to Netanyahu: 'Stop the war... bring us back alive'
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Al-Qassam publishes footage of three Israeli female soldiers accusing their government of neglecting the captives and killing them with their bombings on Gaza.
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Screengrab of footage published by al-Qassam showing the three female soldiers Daniella Gilboa, Karina Ariev, and Doron Steinbrecher on Friday, January 26, 2024 (Al-Qassam military media)
Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, released on Friday a recorded message from captured Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip, urging the Israeli authorities to stop the war so that they can return to their families.
The footage showed three female soldiers - Daniella Gilboa, Karina Ariev, and Doron Steinbrecher - stating that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the government have neglected the issue of their release, calling on their families and friends to hold protests to pressure the government to engage in an exchange deal with the Palestinian Resistance.
They called on their government to "stop the war," stressing, "We have had enough."
One soldier said, "You [Israeli gov.] killed my friends."
We are "escaping being killed at the hands of the Israeli army," one of the soldiers said, while another added that she was nearly killed in Israeli bombardments several times.
"We want to go home, now," the three captured soldiers said, addressing their government.
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A large number of Israeli settlers, including captives' families and friends, have been protesting for months, demanding that their government announce a ceasefire and engage in talks with the Palestinian Resistance to reach an exchange agreement.
Protests particularly grew as more captives were getting killed in Israeli strikes in areas across Gaza and amid Netanyahu's refusal to stop the war, a condition declared by the Resistance as a prerequisite to any exchange deal.
Earlier this month, al-Qassam published a video addressing the families of the soldiers captured in Gaza, in which they warned the settlers to be wary of their leadership.
"Warning to the families of IDF hostages: Netanyahu does not care if all the hostages are killed," the video started in Arabic, English, and Hebrew.
Hamas' military wing explained that Netanyahu does not care about the captives because "his own brother Yunatan was killed in a failed operation to release hostages."
"With his actions now, Netanyahu is sending you all a clear message: 'It is time for you to go through the same agony and pain which I went through,'" the text further read.
"Do not trust him," the video concluded by saying after showing several Israeli captives begging for their leadership to free them before they were brutally killed in the indiscriminate Israeli bombardment of Gaza.
