GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Hamas’s armed wing, Qassam Brigades, has announced it has lost contact with the team guarding US-Israeli soldier Edan Alexander in Gaza after “direct Israeli bombardment” targeted their location.
“It seems that the occupation army is deliberately trying to kill him and hence relieve themselves from the pressure caused by the dual-citizen prisoners to continue its genocide against our people,” said Abu Obeida, spokesman for the Qassam Brigades.
After its warning over the loss of contact with the group holding US-Israeli captive soldier Edan Alexander, the Qassam Brigades has released a video directed at the Israeli captives’ families.
“Be prepared. Soon your children will return in black coffins with their bodies torn apart by shrapnel from your army’s missiles,” the Qassam Brigades said in the video, which is accompanied by footage from a previous handover of Israeli captives’ remains in coffins to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
“Your leadership has signed the decision to execute the prisoners in the Gaza Strip.”
On Saturday, Hamas released a video giving proof of life for Alexander, which was filmed sometime last week.
In the video, Alexander appealed to US President Donald Trump to get him out of Gaza and urged the US president not to believe “lies” told by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
