Hamas has claimed its youngest hostage - a 10-month-old boy - has been killed along with his four-year-old brother and their mother.
Shiri Bibas and Kfir and Ariel Bibas were taken during the terror attack on Israel in October and were the highest-profile civilian hostages yet to be freed.
“There have been occasions in the last week or so when hostages who had been declared dead by one of the armed groups in Gaza actually turned out not to have died - and have subsequently been released,” said Bunkall.
It’s bizarre for an article to quote her here without the article talking about any examples.
declaring them dead means they have to give up the bodies. but terrorist think if they declare them dead they can keep them for future demands or exchanges. so both cases are possible but hamas being experineced in this maccabre trade knows that dead means handing over the bodies, otherwise no peace.
I can’t even imagine the level of evil that it would take to make the decision not to let them go. It’s truly mad.
Both sides are wrong, wrong, wrong and I am tried of people thinking Hamas did nothing wrong, and its all Isreal.
Both sides need to remove all the people involved and start with new groups that aren’t terrorists or right-wing authoritarians.
Let’s talk about those premature Palestinian babies in the ICU that died.
Hamas claims they’re buried under rubble from an Israeli airstrike. I sure wonder why there’s difficulties recovering the bodies…
Hamas are absolute scum and I hope the IDF clears out every single one of them.
Imagine executing a 10 month old baby and thinking you’re not the bad guy.
You can’t kill a movement like Hamas through violence. For every person they kill they just radicalize more, and violence begets violence.
How would you do it? Israel tried to negotiate for a long time and in better faith then Hamas.
Every imaginable approach of defeating irregular combatants has been tried and nothing worked.
Look at Afghanistan where NATO built schools and hospitals, and enabled women to have basic human rights.
Look what happened after NATO left.
The difference is Israel can’t just leave and let Hamas do their thing because their thing is killing every single Israeli possible.
It’s hard to say at this point. After a 75 year campaign of terror, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing it’s hard to say what could reasonably turn that around. Maybe looking to South Africa is a good model towards peace. They’re not in great shape but it’s much better than where they were during apartheid.
South Africa was one country and didn’t have one faction that lived for eradicating the other faction
