‘Write on My Grave’ – Al-Qassam Releases Message from Israeli Soldier Captive in Gaza

Al-Qassam Brigades published a video featuring 19-year-old Israeli captive Liri Albag. (Photo: video grab)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

The Al-Qassam Brigades released a video featuring Israeli captive Liri Albag, who criticized the Israeli government, expressed her suffering successful Gaza, and called for her merchandise portion condemning the ongoing bombardment and subject operations.

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the subject helping of the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas, released a caller signaling today, Saturday, featuring an Israeli worker captive successful Gaza. In the video, she expressed her suffering and sharply criticized the Israeli government, accusing it of failing to unafraid the merchandise of prisoners. She besides described the harsh conditions she is enduring.

The captive, Liri Albag, who is 19 years old, said: “I person been a captive successful Gaza for implicit 450 days… My full beingness is up of me, but it has stopped here.”

She continued: 

“Today marks the opening of a caller year, and the full satellite is celebrating. But for us, it’s the commencement of a acheronian year, afloat of loneliness… We are not a precedence for our authorities oregon our army, and adjacent the satellite is starting to hide america and nary longer cares astir our suffering.”

In an affectional connection to her family, Albag said: “Mom, Dad, Roni, Shai, Guy, Nir… I emotion you precise overmuch and miss you truthful much.”

Albag besides spoke astir a comrade who was earnestly injured successful caller subject operations, saying: “We are surviving a terrifying nightmare. Our endurance depends connected the army’s withdrawal and not reaching us.”

She directed a question to her country’s government: “If your loved ones were the ones successful captivity, would the warfare inactive beryllium ongoing? Do you privation to termination us?”

The video showed Albag with her look successful her hands, crying, and delivering a nonstop connection to erstwhile Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, saying: “You cognize my father. Look into his eyes and archer him that helium and my parent volition ne'er clasp their girl again… You won’t person the courageousness to bash that.”

The Al-Qassam Brigades released a video featuring Israeli captive Liri Albag, who criticized the Israeli government, expressed her suffering successful Gaza, and called for her merchandise portion condemning the ongoing bombardment and subject operations. pic.twitter.com/LzCAEmsj6x

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‘You Are Playing with Our Fates’

With an aggravated tone, she added: 

“After I saw my decease with my ain eyes and what happened to my friend, I realized that our lives are not important to you. I understood that we are conscionable pawns successful your hands, and you are toying with our destinies. You volition surely not beryllium capable to bring america retired live done subject operations… This volition not succeed, and you cognize that.”

Albag expressed her vexation with the ongoing bombardment of Gaza, saying: 

“It’s madness to deliberation that this attack volition execute anything. We unrecorded nether constant, insane bombing each day. Do you cognize what it’s similar to unrecorded successful a spot that is being bombed and determination are nary shelters?”

In the last portion of her message, the captive worker said: 

“If thing happens to me, retrieve maine and retrieve my name… Write connected my grave: All of this is due to the fact that of the authorities and the army. They are the ones guilty, they are the ones who killed us, and my humor is connected their hands.” She concluded by urging her family: “Family, bash everything that is necessary.”

The signaling depicted Albag’s deteriorating intelligence state, highlighting that the existent concern poses a existent menace to her beingness and the lives of different prisoners.

Around a period ago, the Al-Qassam Brigades released a signaling from Israeli captive Metan Tsanjawker, who harshly criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, holding him liable for the continued detention of prisoners successful Gaza, portion besides discussing his ain conditions of captivity.

Earlier, Hamas had announced the deaths of 33 Israeli prisoners it had held, astir of whom were killed successful Israeli airstrikes connected assorted parts of Gaza since the commencement of the violative successful October 2023.

In the archetypal week of September 2024, Al-Qassam besides released audio recordings of six Israeli prisoners whose bodies were recovered by the Israeli service successful aboriginal September from a passageway successful Rafah, confederate Gaza. Among them was Hirsch Goldberg, who held American citizenship.

All these recordings person held the Israeli authorities nether Netanyahu and its information and subject apparatus accountable for the events of October 7, 2023, and person called for a swift captive speech agreement, alongside continued fashionable demonstrations demanding the instrumentality of the prisoners alive.

(The Palestine Chronicle)