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So much sorrow and anguish. The sorrow for those fiendishly murdered on October 7, when Hamas killers came down like wolves on the fold, on the helpless innocent kibbutzim, and beheaded babies, burned children alive, gang-raped, tortured, and murdered young girls, the women whose breasts were sliced off, the men whose genitalia were cut off and eyes gouged out. The children murdered in front of their parents, the parents in front of their children. The killers’ laughter as they shot women in their vulvas, cut open a pregnant woman’s stomach to murder her baby before killing her, the hilarity of kicking a head, like a soccer ball, in the yard, the filming one another as they raped or mutilated or murdered. What fun! The Hamas operative who called his mother to excitedly tell her: “Mom, I killed ten Jews! I killed ten Jews with my own hands.”
Then there is the anguish of the families of the hostages. Of the original 245 believed to have been taken, how many has Hamas killed? The Israelis have recovered the bodies of eight hostages, and believe that twenty other hostages have been murdered by Hamas. Is it your child or children, your mother or your father or your sister or your brother, who is still alive, or has been killed? You may find out about your relatives next week, or you may not find out for months to come, depending on negotiations over another hostage-for-prisoner swap that may, or may not, take place. Now you have a new worry — fear that soldiers in the IDF itself might misidentify your relative held hostage as a member of Hamas. Three Israelis have already been killed from such a mistake. You have no idea what it would take — say, the killing of Yahya Sinwar — to prompt Hamas to summarily execute hostages. Will it be your relative, or someone else’s, or two dozen at once, who will receive a bullet in the back of the neck?
Two sisters, Dafna and Ella Elyakim, who were taken on October 7, were finally released in the hostage-for-prisoner swap and were met by their mother. I was particularly touched by the very tight embrace, the hug between the three of them, signifying “we must never be separated again.” More on their reunion can be found here: “This mother was reunited with her daughters after campaigning for their release on X,” Jerusalem Post, November 28, 2023:
Maayan Zin – an Israeli mother whose two daughters Dafna Elyakim, 15, and Ella Elyakim, 8, were kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 and brought into Gaza as hostages – had been rallying on their behalf on the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), demanding their release from Hamas captivity.
Her nightmare came to an end on Sunday after Israel secured their release, among the 17 people released by Hamas on the third day of the war’s “pause” in exchange for 39 Palestinian prisoners.
The family’s emotional reaction was captured on video and shared by Zin on social media.
You can see Maayan, Dafna, and Ella embracing in a video here.
And you can see all three — the mother and her two just-freed daughters — even more tightly entwined, in the photograph posted here.
That’s what cut me to the quick. That’s what I wanted you to see.
The family must be so very relieved and hopefully they can overcome the trauma they have suffered.
The leftist idiots will be using this to illustrate how moral the islamic cowards are.
Thank you for linking the reunion video. I know it is a priceless and private moment for them, but seeing their reunion nourishes all that is good in the human heart.
I am wondering what will ultimately happen to the Hamas operatives who have surrendered. The immediate prospect is presumably of POW status, or perhaps of being tried and sentenced for their membership of a terrorist organisation – but one wonders what their fate will be after that, not at the hands of the Israelis, but at those of their erstwhile Hamas colleagues. Surrendering rather than fighting to the death is probably not far short of apostasy from Hamas’ perspective – it at least implies that the men could not make the Islamic notion of paradise sufficiently real to themselves to embrace martyrdom. It would be ironic if they ended up having to ask Israel for asylum.
Please do NOT forget that these scumbags supported and TRIED to torture, kill, maim, rape, cut off heads of innocent people who had not done them one iota of harm or threatened them at all. These neanderthrals should be eliminated from the modern human gene pool. History has clearly, CLEARLY shown that given an opportunity, they will continue their psychotic way. Thinking people should destroy threats to survival, any, a.n.y. member now or formerly of Hamas must be eliminated from this life.
I agree with your conclusion, but calling these creeps Neanderthals and urging their extirpation from the human gene pool is not nice. Most Eurasians carry something like 3% archaic human (Neanderthal, Denisovan, or some others not yet identified) in their genes. Neanderthals are the most commonly identified, as this ancestry is very common in Europeans. So please find some other group to make extinct, as you are probably insulting your own ancestors here.
The kindred spirit between Islam and communism, as they use each other to further their own goals, is Godlessness.
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom and we must stand hard for it!
Will the UN recognise these captured and those that surrendered as prisoners of war, and why should it be Israel’s responsibility to bear the cost of imprisoning these scum of the earth. Who’s going to take responsibility and enforce justice. Since the UN likes to impose all manner of sanctions & dictates, maybe they should take control of these prisoners who must be tried for there crimes against the people of Israel.
Financing and giving aid to radicals like Hamas should be a crime and those who support these violent mobs of uncivilized creatures should all be deported to the Amazon Jungle