Al-Qassam Brigades spokesman Abu Obeida said, in a statement on Sunday on the occasion of the eighth anniversary of the Battle of Al-Asf Al-Maqood, that the Israeli army bombed, in its last war on the Gaza Strip in 2021, one of the sites where captured Israeli soldiers were kept.
Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, revealed on Sunday that Israel bombed a place during its last war on the Gaza Strip in 2021, in which one of its two captured soldiers was held by the movement.
This came in a brief statement by the spokesman for the "Al-Qassam Brigades", Abu Obeida.
Abu Ubaidah said: “On the eighth anniversary of the Battle of Al-Asf Al-Maqood (2014), during which the Al-Qassam Brigades captured two Zionist soldiers, the Al-Qassam leadership allowed to reveal that a place during the Battle of Seif Al-Quds last year was subjected to Zionist bombardment, which led to the martyrdom of one of the shadow fighters and the injury of three others during They performed the task of guarding one of the soldiers (referring to Aaron Shaul and Hadar Golden)."
The "shadow unit" is one of the secret security units of the al-Qassam Brigades, and its mission is to secure the lives of captured Israeli soldiers.
Abu Obeida continued, "We reserve the right to disclose the name of the martyr at this stage for security reasons, and we will announce it later, God willing, when the conditions are appropriate."
The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades hold four Israeli prisoners, two of whom were captured during the war on Gaza in the summer of 2014, and two others who entered the Strip in unclear circumstances.
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Aaron Shaul
Aaron Shaul was born on December 27, 1993, and resided in the Poriya settlement in the Nazareth area, according to Israeli sources.
Shaul joined the ranks of the Israeli army, worked in the elite brigade on the border with the Gaza Strip, and participated in the war on Gaza in 2014.
Al-Qassam Brigades fighters captured Aaron in an operation against the Israeli army in eastern Gaza, which took place on July 20, 2014, and this operation resulted in the killing of 14 Israeli soldiers.
Israel did not announce the soldier’s capture until after the Al-Qassam Brigades announced that in a tape broadcast by its spokesman, Abu Obeida, when he published his military number.
Israel says that Shaul was killed, but his family refuses to accept this account, and since his capture until now, Hamas has not provided any information about him.
Hadar Golden
Hadar Golden was born on February 18, 1991, and holds the rank of second lieutenant in the Givati Brigade in the Israeli army, and he is a relative of former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon.
Golden was captured by Hamas in the Rafah area (southern Gaza Strip) on August 1, 2014, during the war.
Israel committed a massacre in Rafah in response to the kidnapping, and carried out indiscriminate shelling of citizens' homes, killing more than 100 Palestinians, including children and women.