Martyr Izz El-Din Al-Qassam Brigades:
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What has been reached in terms of an agreement is the fruit of the steadfastness of our people and the resilience of its fighters, and we announce our commitment to the agreement reached and the associated timelines, provided that the occupation adheres to it.
The resistance has always been keen to stop the war of genocide and has sought to do so since the first months, but the enemy thwarted all efforts due to its narrow calculations and to satisfy the instinct of brutality and revenge of its Nazi government.
The enemy failed to recover its prisoners through military pressure, despite its intelligence superiority and the surplus of power it possesses, and here it is submitting and recovering its prisoners through an exchange deal, as the resistance promised from the beginning.
The Nazi occupation could have recovered most of its prisoners alive many months ago, but it continued to stall and act arrogantly, preferring that its army kill dozens of them as a result of the failed military pressure policy.
To our free prisoners: Gaza and its resistance have offered the most precious things they possess and have strived to the utmost of their ability to break your chains, and we pledge that your cause will remain at the top of our national priorities until you all achieve your freedom.
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Hamas
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The liberation of our heroic prisoners, including those serving life sentences and long-term sentences who have spent many decades behind bars, is the fruit of the heroism and steadfastness of our great people in the Gaza Strip, and its sons in the valiant resistance. It is a pledge from the resistance to its people and prisoners, and a manifestation of the unbreakable will for liberation in the face of the brutality of the new Nazis.
Netanyahu and his army did not succeed over two years of the war of extermination and destruction in liberating their prisoners by force, and ultimately had to yield to the resistance’s conditions, which affirmed that the return of their captive soldiers can only be through a prisoner exchange deal and the end of the war of extermination.
The resistance exerted every effort to preserve the lives of the occupation prisoners, despite the attempts of the war criminal Netanyahu and his terrorist army to target and eliminate them, at a time when our prisoners in the occupation prisons are subjected to all forms of violations including abuse, torture, and killing.
The issue of prisoners will remain at the top of the national priorities for our people and resistance, and our Palestinian people will not find peace until the last prisoner is liberated from the prisons of the new Nazis, and the occupation is removed from our land and holy sites.