Israeli cabinet declared Sunday a series of punitive measures against Hamas’s prisoners and martyrs in a failed attempt to push for the release of Israeli soldiers captured by Qassam Brigades during 2014 aggression on Gaza.
According to Yediot Ahranot Hebrew newspaper Israeli authorities would not return the remains of Hamas members who were killed during anti-Israel attacks to their families but would instead bury them.
The announcement was made via a statement posted on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official Twitter account saying that the decision was made following a cabinet meeting.
The decision also includes the imposition of a number of punitive measures against Hamas’s prisoners and the re-arrest of ex-prisoners released during Wafa al-Ahrar swap deal the paper added.
The move came after Hamas released footage showing a mock birthday party for an Israeli soldier captured by Palestinian resistance in the 2014 Gaza war.
On July 20 2014 al-Qassam Brigades claimed responsibility for killing 14 Israeli soldiers and capturing Oron Shaul during an Israeli military incursion into the eastern border area of al-Tufah neighborhood in Gaza City.
