Translation by Al-Quds.com - The Hebrew newspapers, issued on Tuesday, focused on the issue of the "Al-Qassam Brigades", the military wing of the "Hamas" movement, publishing a video clip of the Israeli prisoner Avraham Mengistu , and this resonated in the security and political circles in Tel Aviv.

According to the Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, “Hamas” did not choose the timing of publishing the clip by chance, but rather deliberately did so with the end of the ceremony for the exchange of the Chief of Staff of the Israeli army, especially after the outgoing Aviv Kochavi spoke, in his farewell interview, about the reasons that might lead to facilitation Possibility of returning prisoners and missing persons in Gaza.

The newspaper claimed, as promoted by Israeli officials, that the "Hamas" movement tried to engage in psychological warfare, and that it tried to influence the psyche of the Israeli public.

The newspaper recounted the statements published yesterday by Netanyahu's office and Mengistu's family about the video.

For his part, the reporter and military commentator for the Hebrew newspaper Maariv, Tal Lev Ram, said that the security establishment, at least until the end of a year or two, did not know whether Mengistu was alive or not, and that there were real signs of questioning about his life.

He pointed out that despite what was declared by the media, whether from Israel or Hamas, that there was a close agreement, the gap was large and there was no real maturity on the part of the two sides, and sometimes options were proposed such as making a deal related to Mengistu and Hisham Al-Sayed, and then discussing the issue. Soldiers, there were gaps and no real progress or convergence.

For his part, Amos Harel, correspondent and military commentator for the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz, wrote that Hamas tried to destabilize the negotiation channel through a psychological war it leads, while Israel tries not to submit to its dictates, pointing out that senior officials called on the Hebrew media to bear responsibility and not be drawn into that war.

In his analysis of the video, which was published yesterday, Harel said that Mengistu was taught to speak with a good suspicion by someone who used Google Hebrew translation in order to convey his message.

And he considered that the "Hamas" movement, through this video, deviated for the second time from a long-term principle that organizations that capture Israelis are trying to abide by, which is not to give free gifts without getting a price, and these are the messages that Hamas conveyed to Israel in the first years of negotiations during periods A truce agreement was reached.

Harel believes that Hamas may have taken this step after it reached the conclusion that Israel already knows that Mengistu and Al-Sayed are alive, while the two soldiers are corpses, and therefore there is no longer any point in using this pressure lever, and this He indicates that the movement’s room for maneuver is not very large, and it does not want to break the state of relative silence that has prevailed in the Strip since Operation “Guardian of the Walls / Sword of Jerusalem” in May 2021, with the exception of the short escalation with Islamic Jihad last August, in which Hamas avoided participating. In it, the movement considers this period important to rebuild its strength in light of the entry of 17,000 workers into Israel, which helps to revive the economy, and these are things that cannot be easily bargained over, even if with regard to the important goal of releasing prisoners, and that the preferred means of pressure It is for the organization to publish clips, not to launch rockets.