Abu Obeida, spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said on Monday evening that Netanyahu and the occupation army alone bear full responsibility for the deaths of prisoners after they deliberately obstructed any prisoner exchange deal for narrow interests, in addition to their deliberate killing of dozens of them through direct air strikes.

Abu Obeida added in his tweets: I say to everyone clearly that after the Nuseirat incident, new instructions were issued to the mujahideen charged with guarding the prisoners regarding how to deal with them if the occupation army approaches their place of detention.

He continued: Netanyahu's insistence on releasing the prisoners through military pressure instead of concluding a deal will mean that they will return to their families in coffins, and their families will have to choose between dead or alive.