A terrorist spokesman admitted that the treatment of hostages has been worse since the IDF rescue mission in June and that some captives have attempted suicide.
Abu Hamza, spokesman for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Al Quds Brigades, said on the group’s Telegram channel on Wednesday that “A number of enemy prisoners have made actual and determined attempts at suicide.”
Not surprisingly, Hamza laid the blame at the feet of the Israeli government for the suicide attempts but also suggested that mistreatment by terrorists captors was another factor.
He claimed the suicide attempts were the result of “Severe frustration they feel as a result of their government’s neglect of their case, and the differing treatment by Al Quds Brigade security units, which have deprived them of some privileges that were previously granted before the heinous crime in Nuseirat committed by the criminal Nazi enemy army through the killing of hundreds of innocent Palestinians.”
The “heinous crime” Hamza refers to is the liberation of four Israeli prisoners by IDF soldiers last month.
Hamza tacitly admitted that Israeli hostages were being tortured in captivity and had been treated “in the same manner” as jailed terrorists in Israel, whom he claimed were suffering “continuous torture.”
