Alwaght- Qasssam Brigades the military wing of Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement says it is holding captive four Israelis including troops in the Gaza Strip.
In a statement on Friday, Qassam Brigades showed the photographs of the four troops and rejected claims that negotiations were being made with Israeli regime regarding their release.
Qassam Brigades spokesman Abu Obeida reiterated that, “There is no contact with the occupation in relation to the missing soldiers in Gaza and we won’t give free information,” adding that “Netanyahu lied to his people when he spoke about his prisoners”.
Last week, Netanyahu claimed that an important development has been reached in the case of missing Israelis troops held captive in Gaza.
According to Zionist media outlets, the two Israeli regime troops were identified as Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin. They died during the regime war on the Gaza Strip in July 2014. A third Israeli was identified as 29-year-old Avraham Mengistu, from Ethiopian descent. Mr. Mengistu, who is believed to be in his mid to late 20s, crossed an Israeli-constructed fence that surrounds much of Gaza on Sept. 7, 2014.
His family has said that he has psychiatric problems. Hamas is also holding a settler who has not been identified yet. Previously, the Israeli regime prisoner exchanges between Palestinian prisoners and Israeli troops held captive and for the remains of dead Israelis.
In 2011, Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier who was seized in a cross-border raid in 2006 and held captive by Hamas in Gaza for five years, was freed in exchange for the release of more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners.
