Resistance lost contact with a group responsible for Israeli captives

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Al Mayadeen English
2 Jan 2024 15:03
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Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees says it lost contact with a group of fighters taking care of Israeli captives in light of the indiscriminate Israeli bombardment.

Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip on December 16, 2023. (AP)

Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, said that as a result of the Israeli bombing, the brigades lost contact with one of the groups responsible for Israeli captives being held in Gaza.

The brigades stressed that this occurred due to the brutal bombardment by the Israeli occupation forces on the Gaza Strip, on New Year's Eve of 2024.

Similarly, earlier in December the military wing of the Hamas Resistance movement, the al-Qassam Brigades, announced having lost contact with a group of Resistance fighters guarding five Israeli settlers as a result of the brutal Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.

كتائب القسام تنشر رسالة من الأسرى لديها إلى عوائلهم والحكومة الإسرائيلية: "لا تتركونا نشيخ"

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On December 23, Al-Qassam Brigades spokesperson Abu Obeida said the five Israeli captives were presumed dead due to the indiscriminate Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.

The big picture

The families of Israeli captives held by the Palestinian Resistance in the Gaza Strip, have heightened their calls for an immediate exchange deal. These demands intensified after the al-Shujaiya incident, along with the killing of captives by the IOF, and the Resistance confirming the deaths of several Israeli captives due to the ongoing bombardment of the Strip.

Thousands of Israeli settlers took to the streets of "Tel Aviv" on December 31, calling for the release of Israeli captives from the Gaza Strip and for the resignation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from his position.

It's important to note that Hamas movement official Osama Hamdan, emphasized, on December 29, that the leaders of the occupation "will not see their prisoners alive unless there is a comprehensive cessation of aggression against Gaza, and negotiations are conducted in accordance with the interests of our people."