"13 of the captured persons in the battle, including foreigners, were killed in the intensive Zionist shelling on the northern governorate and Gaza city during the past 24 hours," the Brigades stated in a press release.

The Brigades added: "Six of them were killed in the northern governorate in separate locations, and seven in the Gaza governorate in three different places targeted by the enemy's barbaric shelling." 

Al-Qassam Brigades earlier declared that four of those captured were earlier killed in a similar Israeli shelling. (ILKHA)