The Al-Qassam Brigades - the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) - said that 3 of the prisoners detained in the Gaza Strip were killed during the operation carried out by the occupation army in the heart of the Nuseirat camp in the central Strip, to recover 4 Israeli prisoners.

Al-Qassam explained in a message addressed to the Israeli community, “After the massacre that your army committed in the Nuseirat camp yesterday to rescue 4 prisoners, your army killed 3 prisoners in the same camp, one of whom held American citizenship.”

Al-Qassam broadcast pictures of the prisoners who were killed, in a video titled “Your government is killing a number of your prisoners to save other prisoners,” stressing that “your prisoners will not be released unless our prisoners are liberated.”

It concluded the video with the hashtag “Time is running out,” which she used to publish, in reference to the shrinking period of time available to conclude an exchange deal with the increasing number of Israeli prisoners killed in Gaza as a result of the intense bombing by the occupation army.

Yesterday, Saturday, the Israeli occupation army announced the recovery of 4 Israeli prisoners from two separate areas in the heart of Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, coinciding with the death of 274 Palestinians, including 64 children and 57 women, and the injury of 698, on Saturday, in a massacre committed by the occupation forces after a violent artillery and air bombardment that targeted the Nuseirat camp. According to what was announced by the government media office in Gaza.

Subsequently, Abu Ubaida, spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades, said that the Israeli army was able, by committing horrific massacres, to recover some of its prisoners, but at the same time it killed some of them during the operation, without mentioning a specific number.