Abu Obeida sets price for Israeli prisoners after number of them are killed by Zionist forces’ fire in Gaza

GAZA, March 01 (YPA) -Abu Obeida, spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, said on Friday that seven more Zionist prisoners in Gaza were killed by Israeli shelling, including a close friend of Netanyahu.

“We previously announced that we had lost contact with our fighters who were guarding a number of the enemy’s prisoners in our sincere Strip, and we assumed that a number of prisoners had been killed as a result of the Zionist bombing,” Abu Obeida stated in a press release this evening.

He added, “After examination and verification during the recent weeks, we have confirmed the martyrdom of a number of our fighters and the killing of 7 of the enemy’s prisoners in the Strip as a result of the Zionist bombing”.

Their names are:

1- Chaim Gershon Peri (חיים פרי)

2- Yoram Itak Metzger (יורם מצגר)

3- Amiram Israel Cooper (עמירם קופר)

Abu Obeida noted that “ Hamas will announce the names of the other four dead after their identities are confirmed ”.

“The number of the enemy’s prisoners killed as a result of military operations by the enemy’s army in the Gaza Strip may exceed 70 prisoners. We have always been keen to preserve the lives of the prisoners, but it has become clear that the enemy’s leadership deliberately kills its prisoners to rid itself of this issue,”  Abu Obeida elaborated.

“At the same time, we affirm that the price we will take for five living prisoners or ten is the same price we would have taken for all prisoners had they not been killed by the enemy’s bombing operations,” he emphasized.

E.M