Hamas said on Wednesday, "Every time the Israeli occupation tries to recover its prisoners by force, it returns them dead in coffins."

Hamas confirmed in a statement that returning to war was a premeditated decision by Netanyahu to thwart the agreement and succumb to Ben-Gvir's blackmail.

It added, "Netanyahu bears full responsibility for the failure of the agreement, and the international community and mediators must pressure him to halt the aggression and return to the negotiating track."

Hamas indicated that the resistance is doing everything in its power to keep the occupation's prisoners alive, but that the indiscriminate Israeli shelling is putting their lives at risk, according to its statement.

It continued, "Netanyahu is lying to the families of the prisoners when he claims that the military option is capable of bringing them back alive."