Hamas urges Israeli mother via Twitter to ask Netanyahu for lost son

GAZA, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- The armed wing of Hamas movement, known as al-Qassam Brigades, on Monday sent a letter in Hebrew via Twitter to the mother of an Israeli soldier, who has been missing in Gaza since 2014.

The group said in a letter written in Hebrew on its Twitter account "The residents of Gaza, mothers, fathers and children don't accept abducting bodies because it's inhuman."

Every mother wants to visit her son's grave, said the letter, which addressed the mother of the missing Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin.

"Leah Goldin, if you want to see your son go to your government because it hides the fact," it said.

Golden was apparently killed during a large-scale Israeli air and ground military offensive waged on the Gaza Strip during the summer of 2014, which left more than 2,000 Palestinians and more than 70 Israelis killed, and thousands injured.

During the war, Hamas armed wing announced that it holds two Israeli soldiers, without saying if they are dead or alive. Hamas said it only can give information on the Israeli soldiers through a prisoners' swap deal between the two sides.

Hamas wants to exchange the two Israeli soldiers and another two Israeli civilians are captive in its grip for Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli jails.

In October 2011, Egypt brokered a prisoners' swap deal between Hamas and Israel, where more than 1,000 Palestinians, imprisoned in Israel were freed for the release of an Israeli soldier was abducted in Gaza in 2006.

Hamas leaders in Gaza had repeatedly announced that until now nothing is new in relation to reaching another prisoners' swap deal with Israel to release the four Israelis for the release of Palestinian prisoners. Enditem