Watan-A leading source within Hamas revealed that the movement alone has around 30 of the generals and Shin Bet officers captured on October 7th from highly sensitive military units and locations.
It was disclosed that Hamas’s Gaza leader, Yahya Sinwar, emerged from the tunnels to inspect areas that witnessed clashes and meet movement fighters above ground.
It’s impossible to reach them under any circumstances
the source stated “These individuals are specifically in heavily fortified and remote locations far from the reach of the occupation, making it impossible to access them under any circumstances.”
At the same time, the source pointed out that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and some of his ministers are concealing a lot of information about the identities of some of the military prisoners to avoid anger among the ranks of the fighting forces.
He further emphasized that a significant part of the Israeli army representative’s frustration in the negotiations for prisoners, Brigadier General (Reserve) Nissan Alon, stems from a perceived laxness on Netanyahu’s part towards this issue.
He stressed that “the only way to liberate the occupation’s prisoners is through serious negotiations accompanied by a full commitment to ceasefire and reconstruction.”
While the exact number of remaining Israeli prisoners in Gaza is unknown after the release of 112 prisoners, Netanyahu’s office announced the deaths of 33 out of 129 alleged prisoners still detained in the sector.
However, the numbers of military personnel among them are not specified, a strategy adopted by the occupation to try to classify some soldiers or retired officers in the reserves as civilians, in order to lower the price of negotiating for them during the talks that were underway to exchange prisoners, while the presence of prisoners with more than one party in Gaza also complicates their containment.
Systematic Deception Operation
The source told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper that the occupation government “is conducting a systematic deception operation against the Israeli street and the families of the prisoners held by the resistance, in order to evade the duty of releasing these prisoners.”
The source denied the accuracy of what Hebrew media outlets close to the occupation government circulated, that “Hamas proposed the release of only 20 prisoners instead of 40 during the first stage of the recently proposed agreement during the Cairo negotiation rounds.”
He said, “Following this claim, Hebrew media reports emerged indicating that the remaining prisoners numbered no more than twenty, which contradicts reality.”
The source said, “Of course, it is impossible to accurately determine the number of living prisoners. But what is certain is that it is more than the figures circulated in the Hebrew media.”
The Hamas leader revealed that “the resumption of the occupation’s military campaign in the north and center, after previously announcing its readiness to confront the resistance there, is due to its realization of the invalidity of what it previously claimed,”
He emphasized that “the resistance is still fine, and it still controls disciplined within integrated structures in the field of operations.”
Sinwar Inspects Areas Witnessing Clashes and Meets Fighters
The source said that Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, “is not isolated from the reality there, despite the ongoing war and Israeli intelligence operations that never cease throughout the day.”
Saying, “Talk of Sinwar being isolated in the tunnels is nothing but a claim from Netanyahu and his apparatus to cover up for his failure to achieve the stated objectives in front of the Israeli public and his allies,” confirming that Sinwar “conducts his work as the movement’s leader in the field.”
The source said that Sinwar “recently inspected areas witnessing clashes between the resistance and the occupation army, and met some movement fighters above ground, not in the tunnels.”
He added that “recent discussions between the movement’s leadership inside and outside – without specifying their nature – in which Sinwar briefed the external leadership of the movement on the situation of the resistance in the sector. He confirmed, through precise numbers and field reports, the strength of the resistance’s position and its resilience and its ability to confront the occupation forces.”
In contrast, the leader affirmed that the movement “deals seriously all the time with all proposals to reach an agreement to cease fire,”
Considering that “the US administration revealed its true face during the negotiation round, by being a party to the war on the sector rather than a mediator.”
He said, “Since the end of that round, it has been venting anger after failing through all pressure attempts to force the resistance to accept surrender conditions in favor of the occupation government and the release of the Israeli prisoners without real commitments to end the suffering of the Palestinian people.”
The source denied that the movement was under pressure from Egyptian and Qatari mediators, confirming that “the positions of Cairo and Doha were understanding of the demands of the resistance and its conditions.”