This came in a video clip published by Al-Qassam Brigades on its Telegram account, titled "Urgent Warning," in both Arabic and Hebrew.
The clip contains images of 45 Israeli prisoners without any indication of their fate, as well as scenes of an Israeli prisoner covering his face in grief.
"You will pay the price for your decision to expand the scope of your criminal operations in Gaza City: the killing of your soldiers and prisoners," Qassam said in its video message.
This warning comes after Qassam Brigades threatened on August 29 that Israel would pay the price for its plan to occupy Gaza City "in the blood of its soldiers," asserting that Israeli prisoners would be held in combat zones alongside its fighters under the same risky living conditions.
Tel Aviv estimates there are 48 Israeli prisoners in Gaza, 20 of whom are still alive. Meanwhile, more than 10,800 Palestinians are languishing in its prisons, suffering torture, starvation, and medical neglect. Many of these Palestinians have been killed, according to Palestinian and Israeli human rights and media reports.
Recently, the families of Israeli detainees have made several appeals to US President Donald Trump, the most recent of which was on Tuesday, urging him to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to conclude a deal to return their relatives from Gaza, where Tel Aviv has been perpetrating a genocide with Washington's support for the past two years.
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These developments come after the Israeli government approved, on August 8, a plan proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to gradually reoccupy the entire Gaza Strip, starting with Gaza City.
On Friday, Tel Aviv declared Gaza City, home to approximately one million Palestinians, a "dangerous combat zone." This comes after intense Israeli bombardment and incursions into its eastern and northern neighborhoods since August 13th.
During the same period, the Israeli occupation forces detonated more than 100 booby-trapped robots in residential neighborhoods in Gaza City, according to a statement issued by the government media office in the Strip on Wednesday.
It also carried out more than 70 direct airstrikes using warplanes, resulting in the deaths of 1,100 Palestinians and the injury of 6,008 others, according to the statement.
On August 18, Hamas agreed to a proposal by mediators for a partial ceasefire and prisoner exchange in Gaza. However, Israel did not respond to the mediators, despite the agreement's terms being identical to an earlier proposal put forward by US envoy Steve Witkoff, which Tel Aviv had accepted.
Instead, Netanyahu is pushing to occupy Gaza City under the pretext of releasing prisoners and defeating Hamas, amid widespread skepticism about the feasibility of this operation from opponents and former officials, and the Israeli military's assertion that the operation would pose a threat to the lives of the prisoners.
With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving 63,746 martyrs and 161,245 wounded, most of them children and women. Thousands remain missing, hundreds of thousands displaced, and a famine has claimed the lives of 367 Palestinians, including 131 children
