Hamas's military wing on Saturday released videos of a mock birthday party for IDF soldier Oron Shaul, who was killed during the 2014 Operation Protective Edge in Gaza.

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The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades said in a New Year's Eve statement that it had posted online "two video clips to mark the 23rd birthday of the Zionist soldier and prisoner Oron Shaul."

The statement went on to say the al-Qassam Brigades had previously announced that it had killed 14 Israeli soldiers and abducted Shaul in eastern Gaza on July 20, 2014.

A 36-second video shows six people in military fatigues sitting on chairs and surrounding another person on a wheelchair who is wearing a shirt bearing the number 102. Their faces cannot be seen.

In the middle of them on a table is a cake with three candles bearing a message written in Hebrew that reads: "Three years in Hamas jail."

In the background a choir sings in Hebrew: "Happy Birthday Oron."

In the second clip, which lasts 54 seconds, a person whose face has been digitally altered to that of Shaul's is seen sitting in a prison cell with their hands bound in ropes.

In the final scene, a man dressed as a clown and appearing to be Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enters the cell.

Messages written in both Arabic and Hebrew read: "A new year and the soldier Shaul is still away from his family" and "the decision is in the hands of the government."

The bodies of Shaul and fellow soldier Hadar Goldin, were snatched by the Islamist Palestinian movement Hamas during the ground operation in Gaza over two years ago.

In September, a senior Israeli official said that since Protective Edge, Israel had been holding 18 Palestinians from Gaza as well as the bodies of 19 others and "offered to swap them for the bodies of the two Israeli soldiers".

But Lior Lotan, who is in charge of prisoners and missing persons, said that Hamas rejected the offer.