Facing a soaring death toll from Israel's renewed offensive in southern Gaza, the Biden administration is trying to pressure its ally to minimize civilian deaths while stopping well short of the kind of measures that might force it to listen, such as threatening to restrict military aid.
  • alvvayson@lemmy.world
    126·
    11 months ago

    And Hamas actually wants to return them, but Netanyahu doesn’t want to negotiate and would rather flood the tunnels and kill them all.

    • halferect@lemmy.world
      106·
      11 months ago

      Kinda… hamas wants to exchange for people for some known terrorists, some are just kids throwing rocks but some are hamas main line terrorists

      • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
        152·
        11 months ago

        Not just “some” are kids throwing rocks. Setting aside the Israeli justice system’s ability to fairly judge Palestinians, there are thousands of Palestinians being held without trial.

    • samokosik@lemmy.world
      25·
      11 months ago

      Sorry but what? If Hamas wants to return them, why did they take them in the first place?

      • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
        91·
        11 months ago

        Because hostages are one of the few ways Hamas has to get concessions out of Israel. Those usually include freeing Palestinian political prisoners and loosening the blockade.

        • Doorbook@lemmy.world
          22·
          11 months ago

          Don’t bother these people don’t even read news and will go through hoops to justify the IDF report of killing people at the rave party to not be taking hostage.

    • DoomBot5@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      11 months ago

      Really? Hamas wants to return them? Is that why they couldn’t produce any more hostages that weren’t raped, beaten, or dead?

        • DoomBot5@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          11 months ago

          “I went through hell,” Lifshitz said at a hospital in Tel Aviv early Tuesday.

          Her captors beat her in the ribs with sticks, she said, making it difficult to breathe. She was visibly exhausted and physically worn. But she told reporters that she offered the handshake because the Hamas militants “were gentle with us” while she was imprisoned in the “spiderweb” of tunnels under the Gaza Strip.

          Stockholm Syndrome textbook example right there. Kidnapped and beaten by Hamas, but thanked them afterwards.

          I don’t know where you’re getting anything from that article that says Hamas wants to return hostages. This was part of the ceasfire agreement Hamas broke.