Hamas: Netanyahu is working to end the hostages’ issue by starving them to death
Hamas Political Bureau member Izzat al Rishq said on Sunday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is working to end the issue of the hostages held in the Gaza Strip by starving them to death after he failed to locate them and killed them by bombing.
In a statement on Telegram, Rashq expressed his regret that “hunger has reached the occupation’s prisoners,” but held “Netanyahu and his Nazi government solely responsible for this, as they are the ones who launched a war of starvation and thirst against our people, and its effects extended to affect their prisoners as well”.
On Friday, the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, released a video of Israeli captive Evitar David, showing him suffering from severe weight loss as a result of Israel’s ongoing starvation policy in Gaza.
On Thursday, the Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, released a video it said was the last of captive Rom Barslavsky before he lost contact with his captors.
The video showed the captive in a state of extreme physical exhaustion due to the starvation imposed by Israel on the Gaza Strip.
In this regard, Rashq stated, “The resistance fighters treat their prisoners based on the teachings of their religion and their human values… They feed them what they eat and give them drink what they drink, as is the case with all our people”.
He added that the world had witnessed, in previous exchanges, “how the occupation’s prisoners were released from the grip of the resistance in full physical and mental health”.
He added, “Today, they are suffering from hunger, emaciation, and weight loss, just as their captors are, in a single scene that brings them together with our people besieged in the Gaza Strip”.
A Hamas leader pointed out that the unjust siege imposed by Netanyahu on our people has extended to surround his prisoners as well, and they haven’t been spared the yoke of brutal starvation”.
He added, “The images of hunger on the faces of Gaza’s children, elderly, and women, before the image of soldier Evitar David, are the crushing response to all those who deny the existence of famine in Gaza.
Rashq emphasized that the brutal starvation of Gaza is, in part, Netanyahu’s desire to end the prisoners’ issue by starving them to death after he failed to locate them and killed them by bombing.
