Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas movement's armed wing and one of the captors of Israeli corporal Gilad Shalit, Tuesday denied media reports that it would threaten his life following the death of a Palestinian prisoner in an Israeli jail.
Abu Obeida, spokesman of the group, said in a statement that the movement "is not intending to hurt or threaten the life of the captive Israeli soldier."
"What the Israeli media had published contradicts with the text of our leaflet," said Obeida.
A leaflet signed by the group, sent to reporters, said, "Hamas won't stay handcuffed before the Israeli aggressions on Palestinian prisoners in its jails, and it has painful choices concerning the case of captive soldier Gilad Shalit."
On Monday, Israeli prisons guards stormed into a detention camp in southern Israel, where dozens of Palestinian prisoners are held, and attacked them by clubs, tear gas and rubber bullets.
Palestinian Prisoners' Associations in Gaza said one prisoner, a Hamas member from the West Bank town of Tulkarem, was killed and over than 100 others were wounded, four in critical conditions.
Hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated on Tuesday before the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza City, to protest against the Israeli violent actions against the prisoners.
Also, more than 11,000 prisoners in all Israeli jails went on a one-day hunger strike in Israeli jails to protest the death of their colleague and Israel's harsh treatment against them.
"The best way to free our prisoners is through Jihad (Holy War) and through resistance. The method of abducting Israeli soldiers and swapping them with our prisoners will be adopted," said al- Qassam Brigades' leaflet.
Al-Qassam Brigades, along with two other Palestinian militant groups, seized Shalit in a cross-border raid on his base in southeast Gaza Strip in June 2006.
Source: Xinhua
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