Noam Schalit accused Hamas of “psychological warfare” on Sunday, after the group’s military arm released a 3D animated video depicting his son, captured IDF soldier Gilad Schalit, being returned to Israel in a coffin.

“It’s regrettable that the leaders of Hamas time and again choose to employ psychological warfare – for the umpteenth time – against the Schalit family and the State of Israel,” the soldier’s father said.

Hamas, he went on, would have done better to respond to Israel’s latest offer for a prisoner exchange with the Islamist movement, which had “lain on their table for four months unanswered.”