An Israeli prisoner who was released from the Gaza Strip said that the rest of the detainees face “a real danger as the war continues,” explaining that “the fighting in Gaza will not lead to the abductees returning alive.”

This came during a press conference in Tel Aviv, reported by Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, held by former prisoners in Gaza and families of current detainees in the Strip, following the Israeli army’s announcement that it had killed 3 of them “by mistake” in the Shujaiya area, east of Gaza.

Yesterday, Friday, the Israeli army announced that its forces “mistakenly” killed three detainees held by the “Hamas” movement, during the battles in the Shujaiya area in Gaza, while the “Al-Qassam Brigades” considered, on Saturday, that Israel was “gambling with the lives of its captured soldiers, of whom it deliberately executed three of them on Friday.” saying that this comes as part of a "desperate attempt to get rid of the burden of the file."

Raz Ben-Ami was released by Hamas as part of a prisoner exchange deal, while her husband, Ohad, is still detained. She criticized the "negativity" of the Israeli War Council in dealing with the detainees' file, saying: "I pleaded with the Council of Ministers and said that the fighting might harm the kidnapped."

She added: "Unfortunately, we were right. The kidnapped are in real danger. Every minute is crucial, and the military operation will not lead to the kidnapped returning alive."

She continued: "I beg you to provide outlines for their return now. The detainees in Gaza face a real danger to their lives."

For her part, Ruby Chen, the mother of Itay, who is detained in Gaza, criticized "the Israeli government's negligence and refusal to meet the detainees' families."

“I arrived yesterday from the United States with other families of American detainees, and we met there with President (Joe) Biden, the US Secretary of State, and other senior officials,” Chen said.

She added: "In Israel, we cannot even talk to the war government, and in the United States we met with senior officials presenting proposals, and our government is waiting... We have become like a game of Russian roulette in the hands of the Israeli government."

In turn, Danny Elgert, Itzik's brother, who is still detained in Gaza, threatened that the families of the prisoners "will pursue the Israeli government if it does not respond to our demands."

He added: "If no change occurs, our sit-in will be moved in front of the Ministry of Defense in the Kirya area in Tel Aviv. We will stand and wait for them. They will try to evade so as not to look us in the eye, but we will wait for them until we get a deal initiated by Israel."

On Friday evening, hundreds of families of Israeli detainees in Gaza demonstrated in front of the General Staff building in Tel Aviv, demanding that their government conclude a new deal with the Palestinian factions to return their prisoners.

The "Al-Qassam Brigades" and "Al-Quds Brigades", the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, previously announced the killing of a number of Israeli prisoners in their custody as a result of the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip since last October 7.