[News] Al-Qassam releases video of Israeli captive, targets Merkava in Gaza

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Al-Qassam releases video of Israeli captive, targets Merkava in Gaza
Al Mayadeen English
September 22, 2025
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The al-Qassam Brigades has release a video of Israeli captive Alon Ohel as
"Israel" escalates Gaza City operation amid rising resistance.

   - [image: Israeli captive Alon Ohel as seen in a video published by
   Al-Qassam Brigades on September 22, 2025 (Al-Qassam Military Media)]
   <https://alpha-en-media.almayadeen.net/media/image/2025/9/22/b5e227d8-cec9-417f-87ca-820c70ac92fb.jpg?width=1000>
   Israeli captive Alon Ohel as seen in a video published by the al-Qassam
   Brigades on September 22, 2025 (Al-Qassam Brigades Military Media)

The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, have published a video
of the Israeli captive Alon Ohel, who has now been held for over 700 days
in the Gaza Strip
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/canadian-palestinian-association-condemns-global-complicity>,
a situation they attributed to "Netanyahu's intransigence".

The video published on Monday shows the captive Ohel watching a clip of the
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying he is "trying to find an
innovative way to bring back all the living detainees," to which Ohel
responds by asking, "What is this talk? Does anyone still believe Netanyahu
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/death-toll-soars-in-gaza-as-fears-of-displacement-grow>
?"

 In the video, the captive Ohel directed a message to his family, saying,
"I know you are suffering because of me
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-captives-families-fear-for-their-lives-after-doha-ag?utm_source=mango-searchx&utm_medium=title_and_relatives&utm_campaign=Israeli%20captive>,
and unfortunately, supporting prisoners has become a crime... I apologize
for asking more of you than you can handle."

"I know that Ben-Gvir's police are treating you like criminals," he added.

The captive continued, pleading with them to keep protesting
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/families-of-israeli-captives-protest-outside-netanyahu-s-res?utm_source=mango-searchx&utm_medium=title_and_relatives&utm_campaign=Israeli%20captive>,
stating that the captives' fate is being sealed and these are their final
days. He added that the captives have become a burden for the government,
saying, "They will keep killing us until no one is left alive," and begging
people to stop the Israeli government
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/families-of-israeli-captives-slam-netanyahu-after-doha-attac?utm_source=mango-searchx&utm_medium=title_and_relatives&utm_campaign=Israeli%20captive>
by any means possible.

Ohel also directed a message to the American envoy Steve Witkoff
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/rubio-netanyahu-take-over-us-foreign-policy--sideline-witkof?utm_source=mango-searchx&utm_medium=title_and_relatives&utm_campaign=Witkoff>,
saying, "I implore you, do not assist Netanyahu in killing the prisoners,"
demanding that the United States "stop supporting Netanyahu's insane
decisions in his war against the Israeli people and the prisoners."

The video closely follows "Israel" launching a military operation to invade
and occupy Gaza City
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--continues-aggression-on-gaza-city--homes-demolished>,
where the Palestinian Resistance continues to confront the Israeli
occupation forces' incursion into the territory.
Al-Qassam attacks a Merkava tank in Gaza City, inflicts casualties

Israeli media have acknowledged that a combat officer from the Shaked
battalion of the Givati Brigade was seriously wounded on Monday during
a close-quarters
clash with Palestinian fighters
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/gaza-casualties-tops-230-000-amid-israeli-genocide-and-famin>
in Gaza City.

Meanwhile, the al-Qassam Brigades announced they targeted an Israeli
Merkava tank
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/gaza-will-be-the-graveyard-of-israeli-soldiers--al-qassam>
with a high-explosive landmine near the al-Bara'a mosque, south of the
Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City, clarifying the operation was conducted on
September 19.

Despite the intense Israeli aggression and siege, the Palestinian
Resistance continues to carry out operations and ambushes, inflicting both
material and human losses on the Israeli forces.

Israeli media confirmed that on September 18, four soldiers were killed
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/gaza-will-be-the-graveyard-of-israeli-soldiers--al-qassam>
and eight others were wounded when an explosive device targeted their
Humvee in an area that had been considered a "safe zone for Israeli
operations," describing the incident as extremely difficult.
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