NAZARETH– SABA: The families of the prisoners have affirmed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu persists in obstructing the exchange deal, rather than fulfilling his responsibility to secure the prisoners' return.
In a media statement reported by enemy outlets on Thursday, the prisoners' families declared: "The government alone is responsible for the repatriation of prisoners."
It pointed out that the conclusion of a deal was primarily a Zionist interest, and held Netanyahu and his cabinet ministers responsible for abandoning the Zionists who suffer in captivity.
"The last week has proven that military pressure does not save prisoners, but kills them, and that the only way to return prisoners is to conclude an exchange deal," it said.
It stressed that "the popular struggle will be escalated to return the prisoners until they return to their homes."
Thousands of Zionists continue to demonstrate in Tel Aviv and other areas in occupied Palestinian cities to demand an exchange deal with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), amid accusations of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of obstructing an agreement.
The discovery of the bodies of six prisoners in a tunnel in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, earlier this month, sparked outrage and a call for a strike committed by many areas and sectors of the occupation entity, before a Zionist court issued a decision to put an end to it.
The Chief of Staff of the "Qassam Brigades", the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, Muhammad Dhaif, announced, on the seventh of October, the launch of the "Al-Aqsa Flood" operation, after launching hundreds of rockets from Gaza towards the occupied Palestinian territories, and storming military sites and settlements adjacent to the Strip, which led to the death and injury of thousands of soldiers and settlers and the capture of dozens.
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