Abu Ubaida, spokesman for the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, said on Monday that the movement had issued new instructions to prisoner guards regarding dealing with them if Israeli forces approached detention sites, holding Israel responsible for the recent killing of six prisoners. . However, he did not clarify the nature of these instructions.

Abu Ubaida stressed via the Telegram application that “(Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu’s insistence on liberating the prisoners through military pressure, instead of concluding a deal, will mean their return to their families inside coffins.”

He held Netanyahu and the army responsible for the killing of prisoners detained in the Gaza Strip by “deliberately disrupting any prisoner exchange deal.”

This comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, on Monday, that Hamas fighters “executed” six prisoners whose bodies were recovered from a tunnel in the Gaza Strip, by shooting them “in the back of the head.”

He added in a press conference: “These killers executed six of our prisoners, shooting them in the back of the head.”

As thousands of demonstrators gathered in Tel Aviv, on Monday evening, for the second day of anti-government demonstrations, the Prime Minister asked for “pardon” for his inability to rescue the six prisoners, and said, “I ask you for forgiveness for not bringing them back alive. We were close, but we did not succeed. You will pay.” Hamas, a very high price.”

Of the 251 people detained during the Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7, 97 remain in Gaza, including 33 that the Israeli army says are dead.

The Israeli Prime Minister said on Monday, “We will make Hamas pay a very heavy price in the near future.”

He added, "No one is more committed than me to the release of the kidnapped people. No one can give me lessons in this regard."