Watan-The military media of the Al-Qassam Brigades released a video clip of the body of the Israeli captive, “Arieh Zalmanovich,” who died in a panic attack caused by an Israeli airstrike near his place of captivity. It was later revealed that he was one of the founders of the Nahal Oz settlement in 1951 and had been responsible for the killing of Palestinians for many years in the service of Israel, which ultimately led to his demise.
Activists shared the video, commenting that the innocent Palestinian blood shed by “Zalmanovich” and his brothers laid the foundation for the settlement on the skulls of the original landowners, a matter known only to God.
The “Haaretz” newspaper published a report about the settler, who was kidnapped from Nir Oz on October 7th and captured by Hamas. The report mentioned that he was one of the founders of Kibbutz Nir Oz, raised in Haifa, and educated at Kibbutz Hahotrim Hatzair.
During a demonstration for the release of the captives last month, his son “Bez” stated that in 1955 his father was “summoned for a national mission” and went on to establish the kibbutz, where he became a farmer.
Hebrew newspapers praised the captive settler who died in Hamas custody due to a panic attack caused by Israeli airstrikes, claiming that he was a legendary figure in Kibbutz Nir Oz and an expert in wheat cultivation, without mentioning that he had been conscripted into the Israeli army since the early days of the Zionist entity.
⛔- قَتَل الفلسطينيين على الأرض من أجل إسرائيل، فقتلته إسرائيل بعد 70 عاماً من السماء! -⛔
⭕- الأسير “أرييه زلمانوفيتش” الذي بثت "حماس" شريطاً له اليوم موضحة أنه مات بنوبات هلع نتيجة القصف الإسرائيلي، هو أحد مؤسسي مستوطنة ناحل عوز في عام 1951.
⭕- الدماء الفلسطينية البريئة… pic.twitter.com/udWx7jFiT7
— عربي بوست (@arabic_post) November 17, 2023
Media outlets circulated an old photo of him, the date of which is unknown, wearing military attire and sitting in the back of a military truck with several occupation soldiers.
The website “Arabi Post” commented on the circulated image and video, stating, “Perhaps 70 years ago, ‘Arieh’ forcefully dragged a Palestinian elder by the hand towards a mass grave or an execution wall.”
The source added, “Did it ever cross his mind then that a grandson of that elder might come, after seventy years, to take him by the hand as a captive from the land of the Palestinian grandfather to the land of the Palestinian grandson, folding a chapter in it? War begets ironies as much as it begets pains!”