America admits its participation in the search for Israeli prisoners held by Hamas News

The US Department of Defense revealedPentagon) Unarmed American drones are flying overhead Gaza stripto contribute to efforts to locate the Israeli prisoners being held by them agitation Since the start of the process Al-Aqsa flood On October 7 last.

Pentagon spokesman General Patrick Ryder said in a statement, “In support of efforts to release the hostages, unarmed American drones are flying over Gaza, providing advice and assistance to our Israeli partner.”

Ryder added that these drones began flying “after the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7.”

Earlier, Reuters quoted two officials as saying that the United States was operating drones to collect intelligence information over Gaza to assist in efforts to locate prisoners.

American officials say that 10 missing American citizens may be among more than 200 people detained by the resistance “and are believed to be in a sprawling Hamas tunnel network.”

Israeli authorities say that at least 240 hostages, including Israelis, dual citizens, and foreigners, are still in the hands of Hamas.

The fate of the foreigner and the Israeli

But Hamas had previously made clear that all those it captured were Israelis and was treating them on that basis, and that it did not matter if some of them held foreign nationalities.

Hamas demands that the aggression against Gaza be stopped and that the occupation prisons be empty of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for its release of Israeli prisoners.

The movement said that it needed time to search for other prisoners held by ordinary citizens and other factions, and pledged to release civilians among them who did not hold Israeli passports without any conditions, noting that they were like guests.

It is noteworthy that on October 7, it was launched Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades The military arm of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and other Palestinian resistance factions, Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, against the Israeli occupation, has so far killed more than 1,400 Israelis – including 338 officers and soldiers – according to Israeli figures.

For its part, Israel continues its aggression against Gaza, bombing homes, schools, hospitals and mosques, which led to the martyrdom of more than 9,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, in addition to wounding more than 22,000, destroying entire neighborhoods, and displacing most of the population.

In the middle of this week, Israel made a ground incursion into Gaza, but faced fierce battles from the resistance, and has so far admitted that 24 people were killed in the fighting in Gaza and the evacuation of 260 wounded soldiers.