Al Qassam Brigades release video about Israeli prisoner in Gaza

June 28. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The armed wing of Hamas, the Al Qassam Brigades, published a video on Tuesday in which the Israeli prisoner Hisham al Sayed appears lying on a stretcher and connected to oxygen, being the first image that appears of the man, who crossed the border since southern Israel to Gaza, where he remains a captive.

Shortly after publishing the recording, Hamas has told the Beirut-based channel al-Mayadin that it is ready for an “urgent humanitarian exchange” of prisoners “in exchange for sick prisoners from occupation prisons.”

According to the Al Jazeera chain, the Brigades have confirmed in a message on Telegram the deterioration of Al Sayed’s health, who has been receiving psychiatric care for ten years and has been a “prisoner” by the armed wing.

Specifically, the spokesman for the Brigades, Abu Obeida, underlined at first that the health of “one of the Israeli hostages has deteriorated”, without giving further details, and has indicated that more information would be known in the coming hours .

It must be remembered that the Israeli government has repeatedly called for the release of at least two Israeli citizens and the bodies of two soldiers who are in the hands of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

It is precisely Al Sayed, as well as Avraham Avera Mengistu, who entered the Strip of their own free will, and the bodies of soldiers Oren Shaul and Hadar Goldin, who died in the Strip during the 2014 Gaza war.

In response to these images, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid has said that Israel sees Hamas as responsible for the condition of the captives “which it is holding in contravention of international law.”

“(The images) are proof that it is a despicable terrorist organization that is holding the civilians of Gaza hostage, who are paying the price of their actions,” he remarked, as reported by the newspaper ‘Haaretz’ .