The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement, has released video footage in which an Israeli captive admits that the regime forces killed members of his family as they indiscriminately targeted neighborhoods in the besieged Gaza Strip.
“Bibi (Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu), you bombed my family. You killed my wife and my children. All what I had in my life,” Yarden Bibas said in the video.
“The least you can do is to bring me and them back home to be buried in Israel. I am begging you: Bring me, my wife and my children back home. Please, I’m begging,” he later pleaded.
“Will I live to attend their funeral? Or will I be buried with them?” the settler asked.
Yarden Bibas, 34, his wife, Shiri, 32 and their two sons, Ariel, 4 and Kfir, then 9 months, were taken captive from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7. Yarden was taken to Gaza separately from the rest of his family.
Efforts to release Shiri and her children during a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas were unsuccessful. Hamas later announced that they were killed as a result of an Israeli airstrike on Khan Yunis city in the southern Gaza Strip.
Qassam Brigades also released another video titled “Time is Running Out,” in which it showed recorded scenes of four captured Israeli soldiers making appeals to Netanyahu’s administration to stop the Gaza war and bombardment, and instead work on having them released.
The Israeli soldiers featured in the video also spoke about how Israeli military forces flattened houses and residential buildings in Gaza. They also pleaded for the aggression on Gaza to stop.
The captives also acknowledged that al-Qassam Brigades fighters did their best to save their lives amid relentless Israeli attacks, providing them with everything they requested in terms of food and drink.
They praised the al-Qassam Brigades for their treatment.
In the video, the Hamas’s military wing affirmed that the four soldiers waved white flags to Israeli forces, repeatedly shouting that they were “hostages”.
However, the invading forces shot them dead in Shuja’iyya neighborhood east of the Gaza City center.
Israel waged the war on Gaza on October 7 after the Strip-based Palestinian resistance groups of Hamas and Islamic Jihad carried out the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm into the occupied territories in response to the occupying regime’s intensified crimes against the Palestinian people.
According to the Gaza-based health ministry, at least 22,722 Palestinians have been killed in the strikes, including 6,830 women and 9,730 children, and another 58,166 individuals injured.
Tel Aviv has also imposed a “complete siege” on Gaza, cutting off fuel, electricity, food, and water to the more than two million Palestinians living there.
More than three months into the offensive, the usurping Israeli regime has failed to achieve its objectives of “destroying Hamas” and finding Israeli captives.
The Palestinian operation shook the Israeli security establishment, leaving around 1,200 Israelis dead and some 240 others captive.
It is believed that 136 captives still remain in Gaza — not all of them alive — after 105 were released during a week-long truce in late November.
