Dozens of Israelis are believed to have been captured by Palestinian militants and are being held hostage, the BBC also reported.
A senior Hamas leader said that the group had captured “enough” Israeli soldiers to make Israeli authorities free all Palestinian prisoners in its jails, a media report said.
“We managed to kill and capture many Israeli soldiers. The fighting is still on,” Saleh al-Arouri, deputy chief of Hamas’ political bureau, told Al Jazeera on Saturday. “Our detainees in (Israeli) prisons, their freedom is looming large. What we have in our hands will release all our prisoners. The longer fighting continues, the higher the number of prisoners will become.”
Nearly 5,200 Palestinians are in Israeli jails, including 33 women and 170 minors, with more than 1,200 in administrative detention, Al Jazeera reported, citing the latest figures by Addameer, a prisoners’ rights NGO.
Hamas commander Mohammed Deif claimed the Palestinian militant group had “decided to say enough is enough”.
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