Israel says it recovered the bodies of six hostages, including one American-Israeli, in Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the hostages were murdered by Hamas, showing the Palestinian group does not want to make a ceasefire deal and prisoner swap.
On Sunday, Tel Aviv reported that six hostages were found dead in Gaza. Israel claimed the six were murdered by Hamas fighters shortly before the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) recovered the bodies. Netanyahu described the killings as “horrific, cold-blooded murder,” adding, “may god avenge them.”
Over 200 Israeli citizens and soldiers were captured by Hamas and returned to Gaza during the raid in southern Israel on October 7. Hamas has offered to release those captives in exchange for Palestinian detainees held by Israel and a permanent end to the violence in Gaza.
In November, Tel Aviv and Hamas agreed to a one-week pause in the fighting that saw 100 of the Israeli hostages released. Since that ceasefire, Israel has attempted to rescue its citizens on military operations that have killed hundreds of innocent Palestinians as well as some captives.
The American is an IDF veteran, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was taken from the Nova Music Festival. Tel Aviv said the bodies were discovered near Rafah.
In his statement on the deaths, Netanyahu claimed the killing of the hostages showed that “Hamas does not want a deal.” He asserted that Israel had proposed a ceasefire and hostage deal backed by President Joe Biden in late May, but Hamas rejected that offer.
However, Hamas has accepted that offer, and Netanyahu responded by adding new demands to scuttle the deal. Members of Tel Aviv’s negotiating team have also blamed Netanyahu for the lack of a deal.
“Netanyahu’s statement is intended to blow up the negotiations, there’s no other way about it. The prime minister knows that we are in a critical period during which we’re working on solutions for the Philadelphi Corridor and Netzarim ahead of the next summit,” a source told the Israeli outlet.
Reprinted from The Libertarian Institute. Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute, and co-host of Conflicts of Interest.
"An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind." —-Mahatma Gandhi
POWs
The 6 were most certainly active duty IDF or weekend warriors given their ages. Note, Al-Qassem caputured nearly 100 IDF in a HQ complex during the 7.Oct raid.
The odds are that these 6 were killed by IDF trigger happy fighters inside the tunnel. There is a pattern that IDF spray and pray without hesitation. Happens enough that Israelis kill their own “accidentally”
Hannibal Directive also comes into play here.
Finally one of the POWs killed made a public video in April blaming the Likud …. https://www.palestinechronicle.com/captive-who-pleaded-for-action-in-video-dies-in-gaza-netanyahu-blamed/
"The odds are that these 6 were killed by IDF trigger happy fighters inside the tunnel." Just stupid.
It is plausible, mad IDF THUGS do it all the time. Their snipers even kill toddlers by shooting them in the head to kill them, they shoot to disable peacefully demonstrating young, old, and disabled demonstrators knees. Limitless IDF sadism and malice. Civilized people?
Most plausible, the IDF scum did it.
Another comment where your hate for Israel is showing. The Hamas propaganda machine has did a nice job on you convincing you that Israelis are evil. When it is obvious that Hamas killed these people, your hate filled rage, just won't allow you accept what has happen. So you simply blame Israel for the killing of their own people.
The IDF is known for Blue on Blue incidents. Ask any U.S. military who had trained with the IDF.
POWs
The 6 were most certainly active duty IDF or weekend warriors given their ages. Note, Al-Qassem caputured nearly 100 IDF in a HQ complex during the 7.Oct raid.
The odds are that these 6 were killed by IDF trigger happy fighters inside the tunnel. There is a pattern that IDF spray and pray without hesitation. Happens enough that Israelis kill their own “accidentally”
Hannibal Directive also comes into play here.
Finally one of the POWs killed made a public video in April blaming the Likud …. https://www.palestinechronicle.com/captive-who-pleaded-for-action-in-video-dies-in-gaza-netanyahu-blamed/
Also "when you drop a couple hundred tons of ordnance on a place where your own people are located, don't be surprised when you kill some of them as well."
"Hersh Goldberg-Polin" His case is interesting because he already called out the fact that 70 of the hostages were killed by Israeli bombing. See here, I reposted it:
https://x.com/Richard10986364/status/1830102345319137658
Lol, not to quibble but "no deal with Hamas is not possible" is a double negative meaning a Deal Is Possible and that's an oxymoron 🙂
That is what terrorists do to hostages when they think they might be rescued. Not surprising.
So, it WAS the IDF. You did say "terrorists".
LOL. What a poor attempt. Try again.
Poor attempt? I couldn't be more correct. The numbers don't lie.
Do you know who did it? Most likely the let loose mad IDF dogs did it. That is most plausible, cui bono?
So did Israel has killed surndering civilians and prisoners of war.
According to Benny Morris the Yishuv (or later Israeli) soldiers killed roughly 800 Arab civilians and prisoners of war in 24 massacres.
Israeli soldiers killed hundreds of Egyptian prisoners of war during the 1967 Middle East war — deaths that commanders who are now prominent leaders have known about for years, historians said today.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/newsletters/campaign-moment/
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Some 54 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli jails since Israel launched its deadly war on Gaza in October last year, according to the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs in Gaza. The United Nations Human Rights Office in Palestine says it has been receiving multiple reports of mass detentions, abuse of prisoners and forced disappearances of Palestinians for months, while harrowing testimonies have been provided to aid agencies or posted to social media by Palestinians who have been released from detention.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/22/happening-again-guantanamo-victims-say-israel-using-us-style-torture
But Israel is most moral and civilized nation in the universe and in history????
FO.
What is your problem?
It is not a problem to hate terrorists and their supporters. The military used to employ me to eliminate them.
That fact remains that Palestinians terrorists have a history of killing hostages when a rescue attempt is coming. That is just what they do.
There are no Palestinian terrorists, there are Israeli mad dog IDF terrorists.
Hamas are Freedom Fighters, legal disciplined resistance against their most brutal occupier.
They are human, most likely some have committed war crimes, but there is no credible documentation or/and forensic evidence.
The undisciplined and mad IDF thugs have committed documented war crimes and forensic evidence included and publicized it.
"There are no Palestinian terrorists" Really. I guess those buses that blew up in Tel Avia a few years were the result of bad wiring on the buses, not some terrorists.
The IDF speaker and Breitbart and Netanyahu called it murder knowing very well there is no safe spot in Gaza for anyone, not even for Israeli hostages. Most likely the hostages were killed by Israeli crossfire or bombing and they know it. Thanks to rabid Netanyahu and rabid Biden, where is Biden anyway?
Nonsense.
The Hannibal directive?
How would you know?
I can ask you the same question. "Most likely the hostages were killed by Israeli crossfire" You are just guessing at that based on your hate for Israel.
Wrong, it is the most plausible. You only know six dead bodies were found, and other than that you know nothing, no more than I do, namely nothing.
How do you know I hate Israel? I despise mad dogs like the Zionists and mad ruling elites. Maybe that is what hate is. I am not sure.
Well you just admitted that you know nothing and yet you claim that the hostage were mostly were killed Israeli fire. That kind of dumb. Meanwhile, read what Hamas said on Monday about the "special instructions" given to the guards after the Nuseirat incident.
How do I know that you hate Israel? That is simple, your comments tell me that.
Your usual BS.
Yes, without any doubt they were killed by the IDF. 1.) Why would Hamas "murder" its most valuable insurance policy and bargaining chip, the whole objective of the Oct. 7 raid? and 2.) The IDF are petrified at the idea of entering an Hamas tunnel and take counterneasures to kill everything inside and destroy boobie-traps previous they'll even consider entering.
So, as usual BB is full of it.
To all of you with the "most likely killed by IDF" – GFY and STFU.
Typical level of ZioNazi discourse.
Is he sitting in for Julio or Jake?
There is no discourse with terrorists or their supporters. The level of ignorance you display on top of being a supporter of terrorism would be enough on its own to preclude any discourse.
Reminds me of when Assad would gas his own civilians while he was winning.
… with the weapons supplied him by the GWH Bush team for use against the Iranians. Yes, the neocon ZioNazi narrative logic is so convoluted it defies fractal analysis.
And with Putin's help Obama and Assad cooperated to destroy the chemicals on a special American ship.
"Yes, without any doubt they were killed by the IDF" That is even dumber than the "most likely" take.
The out of control IDF types are mad enough, they don't know what they are doing.
Historically compared to other urban combat, the IDF has shown remarkable restrained. See Berlin 1945 for an out control army in action.
Blaming Hamas even before discovering the bodies…!
Is that supposed to be your idea of a joke or do you have a reading problem?
https://x.com/Sunny_000S/status/1830070674104467702
A news aggregator, " http://Antiwar.com ," is a platform that organizes and collects news stories and other information.
http://Antiwar.com is not journalism or "news" when, as here, it merely repeats "one side" of a non-independently confirmed or verified "report" that the hostages were "murdered by Hamas."
Until independently confirmed, what is it? Propaganda.
dennis hanna
The article does provide links and leaves the big question open. We know the bodies were found, no one questions it. The big question is WHO DID IT. There is peculation but we do not know.
No, it's not Netanyahu's fault. Nobody thinks it's his fault. If we think otherwise, we don't exist. We all here don't exist. Ask your neighbors. …See. I told you. We don't exist.
In his statement on the deaths, Netanyahu claimed the killing of the hostages showed that “Hamas does not want a deal.”
You would think if Hamas did not want a deal, they could have just rejected Biden's original proposal and not given Israel one huge propaganda gift. Makes absolutely no sense. Netanyahu is lying through his teeth.
He's covering his ass…!
Israelis learned from their media that a hostage said all were killed by Israeli bombs, along with some 200 innocent Palestinian women and children. Media is so controlled in the USA that Americans are only told what the IDF says, but Jimmy Dore gave the truth.
Hamas has now admitted that the guards were told to kill hostages if the IDF is closing in to rescue them. When this occurs, Israel should convict the same number of Hamas fighters captured on Oct 7 of murder. Than shoot them.