Al-Qassam brigades makes conditional offer to allow food, medicine for Israeli hostages

By Murat Başoğlu and Mohammad Sio

ISTANBUL (AA) - Hamas’ armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, said Sunday it is willing to coordinate with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to allow the delivery of food and medicine to Israeli hostages on the condition that Israel opens humanitarian corridors for all Palestinians in the besieged Gaza.

“The al-Qassam Brigades is ready to deal positively with any Red Cross request to deliver food and medicine to (Israeli) enemy captives,” the group’s spokesperson, Abu Obeida, said in a statement on Telegram.

He conditioned the delivery “on the full and continuous opening of humanitarian corridors to allow the flow of food and medical supplies to all our people across Gaza, and on halting enemy aerial activity during the delivery of aid parcels to the captives.”

Abu Obeida emphasized that the group “does not deliberately starve the captives,” saying they receive the same food available to Hamas fighters and ordinary Palestinians under siege. “They will not be granted special privileges while our people endure starvation and blockade,” he added.