A high-ranking member of the Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military faction, claimed that “most of the enemy’s prisoners (hostages) in the northern Gaza region are considered missing due to Zionist aggression.”

Speaking to Al Jazeera, the official pointed out that “the Al-Qassam Brigades repeatedly warned of reaching this outcome in the areas of Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip.”

He accused Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) of “insisting on evading this issue in their own way,” and went on to say that the Al-Qassam Brigades “are re-imposing full responsibility for the lives and fates of their prisoners (hostages) on the enemy’s government and its army.”

In related developments, it has been reported that Hamas, along with other Palestinian militant groups, currently holds 98 Israeli soldiers and civilians. Approximately half of them are still alive, with most having been captured during the October 7th massacre.

{Matzav.com}