The undated 37-second video of Noa Argamani, 26, Yossi Sharabi, 53, and Itai Svirsky, 38, released on Sunday night showed them speaking presumably under duress, pleading with Israel’s government to end the war and get them home.
The clip ended with a Hamas caption that on Monday, “we will inform you of their fate”. Israel has blasted such videos as psychological warfare and insists it will not be deflected from its goals in Gaza, after Hamas launched raids into southern Israel on October 7 that claimed 1,200 lives.
Among the targets was a music festival from which Ms Argamani and her boyfriend were seized. An early clip released by Hamas showed her pleading for her life as she was taken away on the back of a motorbike.
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The idea that Hamas “treat hostages well” is such a viciously stupid and deceitful claim I don’t even know where to start. You should be ashamed of yourself for spreading such vile idiocy, and for accepting at face value the message of a desperate hostage held at gunpoint in a Jihadist terror dungeon.
Reminder that hostages were more afraid to be killed by israel’s bombing than by Hamas
From every single hostage released we hear the same story, they were treated well, not beaten, just underfed when food started running out after a few weeks just like every other Palestinian in Gaza.
From this source:
Also important to note, it is likely that some hostages are treated under “acceptable” conditions for propaganda purposes. Also, many hostages’ family members were murdered on october 7. So that unto itself very much contradicts with the absurd claim that they were “treated well”.
Yeah they were fed well at the beginning but then israel blocked all food and medicine
Which is why there wasn’t much food and medicine. The hostages even said that their Hamas captors divided it equally among them, giving them just as much as they had themselves.
You are not describing the treatment of the hostages, you are describing how the Palestinians are being genocided.
There is no contradiction. Many of the attackers on Oct7 were ill informed, rogue militia or from another group. There is even a video in t he israeli propaganda site of Hamas trying to stop a mob from hitting a hostage on a bike. The mob did not understand that they are not supposed to hit hostages.
Hamas isn’t an organised army like israel is. Oct 7 was a secret operation, how much coordination do you think they had?
A few people commit crimes (which is very bad, no non-IDF should have been killed on oct7) does not mean that it is a doctrine from the top down. On the contrary the 1/3 military kills and only 36 children dying out of 1139 deaths (and most kids were killed by israeli tanks) suggest that the doctrine from the top was very clear: Attack military bases and take hostages alive.
Whereas with israel we can clearly see that the top of their army is advocating for the genocide of all Palestinians that their soldiers are committing by deliberately ordering bombings of hospitals, schools and refugee camps.
They murdered 1200 people.
disinformation. debunked here and here.
Numerous women who were released have testified that they and many of the other women they met in the tunnels had been brutalised, sexually assaulted and raped, as well as verification by doctors.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-least-10-freed-hostages-were-sexually-abused-by-hamas-in-captivity-doctor-says/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world/middleeast/oct-7-attacks-hamas-israel-sexual-violence.html
I have very bad news for you. They are literally quoting the “40 beheaded babies guy” from ZAKA in that article Nothing in there is true.
Do read the rest of the article it completely demolishes that rape IDF fanfic.
yet again, the grayzone is not a reputable source. Also, just because there is some incorrect information about the october 7 attacks, it doesn’t invalidate widely documented, independently verified evidence of the crimes commited.
There Was No Cover-Up of Hamas’s Sexual Violence on October 7 You are literally backing rapists who documented their own crimes. It’s beyond disgusting if you ask me.
I’m not interested in either The Grayzone or your own attempts at Holocaust denial. Blocked.
Bye bye :)
good! reporting helps, too.