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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Al-Qassam releases video of Israeli captive, targets Merkava in Gaza</h1>
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<div class="gmail-reader-estimated-time" dir="ltr">September 22, 2025</div>
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<div class="gmail-moz-reader-content gmail-reader-show-element"><div id="gmail-readability-page-1" class="gmail-page"><p>The
al-Qassam Brigades has release a video of Israeli captive Alon Ohel as
"Israel" escalates Gaza City operation amid rising resistance.</p><div><ul id="gmail-content-slick-0"><div aria-hidden="false"><li>
<a href="https://alpha-en-media.almayadeen.net/media/image/2025/9/22/b5e227d8-cec9-417f-87ca-820c70ac92fb.jpg?width=1000" tabindex="0"><img src="https://alpha-en-media.almayadeen.net/media/image/2025/9/22/b5e227d8-cec9-417f-87ca-820c70ac92fb.jpg?width=1000&preset=w700" alt="Israeli captive Alon Ohel as seen in a video published by Al-Qassam Brigades on September 22, 2025 (Al-Qassam Military Media)" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img"></a>
Israeli captive Alon Ohel as seen in a video published by
the al-Qassam Brigades on September 22, 2025 (Al-Qassam Brigades
Military Media)
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<p>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 <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/canadian-palestinian-association-condemns-global-complicity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">700 days in the Gaza Strip</a>, a situation they attributed to "Netanyahu's intransigence".</p>
<div><p>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?<a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/death-toll-soars-in-gaza-as-fears-of-displacement-grow" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Does anyone still believe Netanyahu</a>?"</p><p> In the video, the captive Ohel directed a message to his family, saying, "I know <a href="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" target="_blank" rel="noopener">you are suffering because of me</a>, and unfortunately, supporting prisoners has become a crime... I apologize for asking more of you than you can handle."</p></div>
<p>"I know that Ben-Gvir's police are treating you like criminals," he added. </p>
<p>The captive continued, <a href="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" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pleading with them to keep protesting</a>,
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 <a href="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" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to stop the Israeli government</a> by any means possible.</p>
<p>Ohel also directed a message <a href="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" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to the American envoy Steve Witkoff</a>,
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."</p>
<p>The video closely follows "Israel" launching a military operation <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--continues-aggression-on-gaza-city--homes-demolished" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to invade and occupy Gaza City</a>, where the Palestinian Resistance continues to confront the Israeli occupation forces' incursion into the territory.</p>
<h2>Al-Qassam attacks a Merkava tank in Gaza City, inflicts casualties</h2>
<p>Israeli media have acknowledged that a combat officer from the Shaked
battalion of the Givati Brigade was seriously wounded on Monday during a
<a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/gaza-casualties-tops-230-000-amid-israeli-genocide-and-famin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">close-quarters clash with Palestinian fighters</a> in Gaza City.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the al-Qassam Brigades announced they <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/gaza-will-be-the-graveyard-of-israeli-soldiers--al-qassam" target="_blank" rel="noopener">targeted an Israeli Merkava tank</a>
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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Israeli media confirmed that on September 18, <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/gaza-will-be-the-graveyard-of-israeli-soldiers--al-qassam" target="_blank" rel="noopener">four soldiers were killed</a>
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.</p></div></div></div>
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