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[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 40 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I have yet to read anything that helps me understand why Israel, based on the premise of "freeing the hostages", decided to carpet bomb the actual areas the hostages would be held in. I mean it makes zero sense to spend months doing that, and then publically announce every time they find hostages' bodies ... like it's some kind of accomplishment. It's not. It is a massive fucking failure but nobody seems to be calling Israel out on that failure.

[–] febra@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

It's as if they never really cared about the hostages but just use them as a bargaining chip to continue their war on palestinians.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago

Those hostages? Believe it or not: Hamas.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

How many people did they kill this time, in order to recover dead bodies?

Last time, they killed 120-somehing Palestinian civilians to save 2 Israeli hostages and the time before that, they killed over 100 to retrieve dead bodies.

[–] steventhedev@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if this was some concession by Hamas as part of the negotiations

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago

Israel’s military said its forces recovered the six bodies of hostages in an overnight operation in southern Gaza, saying they were killed during a time that troops were operating in Khan Younis. Hamas says some captives have been killed in Israeli airstrikes, though returning hostages have talked about difficult conditions in captivity, including lack of food or medications.

Doesn't look like it