From inside a tunnel.. Qassam publishes scenes of the delivery of the fifth batch of Israeli prisoners

The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), published exclusive photos of the handover of the fifth batch of Israeli prisoners, which took place today, Saturday, in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

The photos began with a Qassam fighter opening a letter and informing the three prisoners - who were with him inside one of the tunnels - namely Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Shaarbi, and Or Levi, of the decision to release them.

The three prisoners expressed their joy at the news of their release, and spoke in Hebrew to the camera that was filming them, before receiving clothes bearing the name and picture of each one of them.

The three of them got dressed inside the tunnel and were instructed by the fighters to move outside, accompanied by their Shadow Division guards. It seemed that they had covered a complicated and not short distance underground.

Handing over prisoners to the Qassam elite

After that, white cars appeared in an agricultural area, and the prisoners were unloaded from them and transferred to other cars supervised by fighters from the elite Qassam unit, which in turn took them to the delivery site.

"We will fight with the sword, and no one will turn an arm for us."

They took them out of the tunnel.. Al-Qassam Brigades publishes scenes from the delivery of the fifth batch of occupation prisoners in the Gaza Strip as part of the first phase of the "Al-Aqsa Flood Deal." pic.twitter.com/jVR57kXF5t

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The photos also showed the prisoners exchanging conversations with the guards who were accompanying them inside the car until they arrived at the place of their handover in the middle of the Strip.

The three thanked Al-Qassam during their handover ceremony, saying that they had survived thanks to these fighters, and expressed their anger at the Israeli government, which they described as a failure.

Source: Al Jazeera