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Hamas now says it cannot come up with even forty hostages, consisting of women, the elderly, and female soldiers, to be exchanged for what, at last count, was supposed to be 700 Palestinian prisoners, some of them now serving multiple life sentences for murdering Israelis. What does that mean? It means what everyone of sense has suspected all along. Hamas has been steadily murdering many, perhaps most, of the hostages. More on these murders most foul can be found here: “Report: US officials fear most of the hostages held by Hamas could be dead,” Times of Israel, April 11, 2024:
US officials tell the Wall Street Journal that there are fears that most of the Israeli hostages in Hamas captivity could be dead.
The report comes amid talks to secure a hostage release deal and a truce, with some Hamas sources indicating that they are unable to provide 40 living hostages from the elderly, women and female soldiers that Israel is demanding.
It is believed that 129 hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza. The IDF has confirmed the deaths of 34 of those still held by Hamas, citing intelligence and findings obtained by troops operating in Gaza.
How many of the 34 hostages confirmed dead by the IDF were murdered by Hamas? No one in his right mind believes that all, or most, died in Israeli airstrikes. Hamas committed mass murder of innocent civilians on October 7. Why wouldn’t it continue to murder the hostages for any number of reasons? Some Hamas members may have found the elderly Israelis required too much attention. Why not just eliminate them if they proved too much trouble to take care of? Perhaps some of the girls and women were insufficiently accommodating to the sexual demands of their captors. So why not kill a few, to make sure the others are obedient? And then what fun, after all, to every so often kill a few of the male IDF soldiers. What’s not to like?
However, the WSJ report says that “Israeli and American officials estimate privately that the number of deaths could be much higher.”
Some US estimates indicate that most of the hostages are already dead, US officials familiar with the intelligence tell the paper.
They stress, however, that US information on the hostages is limited and depends, in part, on Israeli intelligence.
The report quotes US officials as saying that some were likely killed during Israeli strikes on Gaza, while others have died from health issues, including injuries suffered during their initial capture….
This sounds as if the American officials are ready to accept the Hamas excuses about hostages dying in Israeli strikes or from natural causes. There is no way to disprove the Hamas claims, but they should not be uncritically accepted. Skepticism is in order. Instead of reinforcing Hamas’ claims, by stating that “some of the hostages were likely killed during Israeli strikes” or from “health issues,” the Americans ought to be saying instead that “though a handful of the hostages may have been killed in airstrikes, we know that most of them are being held in underground tunnels where airstrikes do not reach. We believe that Hamas has been murdering some of the hostages for any number of reasons. Some are elderly and required care that Hamas operatives didn’t want to provide; some were girls and women who tried to resist sexual abuse by their captors; some were soldiers whom Hamas decided to execute in order to frighten the other hostages into subservience. We demand that Hamas provide a full accounting of all of the hostages, living and dead, in its possession, and in the case of the latter, the cause of death.”
Let’s do the math. There were 253 people taken hostage on October 7. Four were released by Hamas in October, and 105 of them were released in the November hostage-for-prisoner swap. That left 144 captives (253-109). Three more hostages were subsequently rescued by the IDF, and three others were mistakenly killed by the IDF. That means 138 were still being held captive. In addition, twelve bodies of hostages who had been held captive and presumably were killed by Hamas were recovered by the IDF. That means 126 captives should now be alive in Hamas’ captivity. But who knows how many of those have been killed over the last few months. The Israeli government now believes that Hamas is holding onto the bodies of 31 Israelis who have died in captivity. That would mean fewer than 100 captives are still alive and are being held. But do you really think their captors have ceased to murder their helpless hostages? It’s murder most foul, and the American government ought to be taking the lead in demanding an accounting from Hamas as to just how many captives are still being held, and what the terror group claims happened to those who are dead.
And how will people react when the final reckoning is made, and it is discovered that only a few dozen hostages are still alive in Hamas’ possession? Will there be a renewal of the sympathy and solidarity with Israel that was on display in the weeks after the October 7 atrocities? Or will these revelations have no effect, as so much of.the world has made up its mind in recent months to support even the terror group Hamas against the “apartheid, settler-colonial, genocidal, Jewish state”?
If Israel releases murderers, it should be Russian style.
From 1,000 meters over Gaza
An airburst works better at about 500 meters.
Use Thermobaric weapon and suck their lungs out.
How about General Pershing style.
Yes, there is no other way
Doesn’t matter. Any death is on hamas and islam.
their deaths will be celebrated by islam and privately by the left and visibly by the american higher learning cabal . as with all left ideology and the muslim death cult , a good jew is a dead jew . nothing will change and the victims and israel will be to blame . because of reasons . just fill in the blanks .
So why isn’t the Useless Nations(UN)proposing a total world wide Ban on Kidnapping and making it a Death Penalty Punishment? How many UN Leaders are making money off this?
The latest leftist/rightist propaganda is that Hamas cowards didn’t actually commit atrocities against women and children at all they only killed men, miraculously avoiding innocent civilians.
It was also an inside job because it’s the most secure border in the world and Gaza is a refugee camp.
What? natural causes….during an atrocity? Sure, sure, grandma or mama or your daughter would have died naturally without abduction, gang rape, terror and dark confinement. THERES NOTHING NATURAL ABOUT THAT! ( Is it possible not to hate hate hate the USA now? If it is possible tell how not to?)
He’s not my president, Chaya. And the Squad should be sent to Gaza to support the terrorists.
Well, when they starve captives to death it’s sort of “natural causes.”. If you don’t get enough nourishment to live you naturally die.
I stated back in October most of the hostages were dead. Time to make the Islamofascists pay for their war crimes, level all of Gaza
100% ……and turn Tehran into a glistening sea of green Trinitite!
If any hostages were killed by the IDF, airstrike or otherwise, we would know about it immediately. Hamas would never pass up such a propaganda opportunity. Bodies are not released so that autopsies cannot be performed.
Similarly, it is easy to see that the Hamas-released civilian casualty figures are wildly over-inflated. Hamas has created fake funerals in the past over non-existent Israeli “atrocities.” They would not be able to miss the propaganda opportunity of endless funerals displayed on Western media if such claims were true and the casualties existed. They cannot stage fake funerals on that scale, especially while concurrently fighting the IDF. The media reports their numbers unquestioningly anyway.
We are at war. This is WW3 – President Trump has been warning about this since before October 7, 2023! President Trump does not mince words. He doesn’t lie. He is speaking from his experience. If we do not get President Trump back into the White House this nation and world is finished!
No kidding. As this is apparently too short of a comment, allow me to reiterate: No Kidding.
It is one thing to drop “Fat Man” and “Little Boy”, “anonymously” from 31,000 feet, and quite another to put a living human baby into a hot oven and “bake” it while the parents watch. The hatred of the first is temporal, and expires when the conflict is over, all parties finally coming together to sing “Kumbaya”, and the second is a spiritual hatred which can never be “fixed” in the here-and-now. The quicker we realize that, the better off we’ll be.
These monsters have mothers who raised them, little brothers and sisters who wish to be like them, cousins learning how to hate and kill Jews. They have friends who greeted the mistreated hostages with jeers and brutality. Are there any civilians in Gaza? Really?
MOABs are at this point, a reasonable solution to the crisis. Is this “genocide”? Hardly. Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia are full of Arabs. There is no shortage.
If people died from health issues, the chances are that it is still Hamas’ fault – that those health issues would not have killed them if they had still been where they could get proper medical attention (not to mention the medication which has almost certainly been withheld or sold).
The horrible reality is that taking into account the brutal cruel vicious horrendously evil Islamic character of the jihadists of Hamas, many of those hostages who had been kidnapped had also been murdered.
Such horrific treatment of those hostages is of no surprise when taking into account the demonic brutal cruel religion that Hamas has its foundation on, which of course is Islam, Surah 5:33. 9:123.
For there is absolutely no limits to the vile, heinous horrifically murderous wickedness that the jihadists of Hamas had committed and will continue to commit because of because of their demonic and malice-filled religion that is Islam.
Nothing else any be expected but murder of many of the hostages who had been kidnapped by the Hamas jihadists.
In other words, the jihadists of Hamas kidnapped and then murdered them.
The reason why those jihadists are so very vicious and murderous is because they their jihad terror organization has of the origin in the religion of Islam.
Therefore the those demonic vicious malice- filled deadly actions of jihadists of Hamas are the results or outcome of the fruits of jihad –minded Muslims who are completely devoted to Islam with its violent and its death inflecting jihad, Surah 2:191. 4:89. 9 : 5. 123. 47:4.
This is reflection of the teaching of Jesus, Who taught, “By their fruits ye shall know them.” Matthew 7:20. [K.J.V.]
Every death of a hostage is due to Hamas. Every one. There is no way for Hamas to spin this where this fact is not understood. And that is precisely why every Hamas goon is going to die. Every Hamas/IJ prisoner held by Israel will be executed for war crimes. There is no way in which they will be traded for dead bodies.
Sinwar and Deif will be captured and hanged in a public spectacle worthy of Rome.
Gaza will be administered by Israel for the next decade, at a minimum..
We need Biden to step away from protecting Iran and to ‘allow’ Israel to destroy Hamas.
Had Hamas not invaded Israel, every single person alive on October 6th would be alive today. Every death, whether Muslim or Jew, is on the bloody hands of Hamas.
Every death of a so-called Gaza civilian is due to Hamas, as well.
Lets face it, these barbarians have nothing to bargain with. They couldn’t wait to do their dirty deeds!
While there is no doubt one Israeli live is worth most of the population of Gaza, why does Israel succumb to these lopsided terror appeasing trades of vicious murderers for hostages?
Biden has not even once demanded release of American hostages. Not once that I know of.
Well, if he did he might lose some votes in Dearborn. And, hey, what’s more important, the lives of innocent captives or the imbecile-in-chief’s political fortunes?
Israel needs to tell Hamas that they will execute one of the prisoners convicted of murder every day that hostages are not released, starting with the most prominent prisoner. They probably don’t want to see the most prominent ones executed. In any case, they are convicted for murder.
Why would any SANE person vote to CONTINUE the DESTRUCTION of Our Nation? It’s apparent that the biden bunglers are doing this INTENTIONALLY – NO ONE IS JUST THAT STUPID!!
Hamas has no business to be existing …better off without such filth on the planet