The Israeli military says it has recovered the bodies of six hostages taken in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack that started the war in Gaza.

Yagev Buchshtab, Alexander Dancyg, Avraham Munder, Yoram Metzger, Nadav Popplewell and Haim Perry

  • girlfreddy@lemmy.caEnglish
    373·
    3 months ago

    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.worldEnglish
      81·
      3 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.

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    396·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish
      536·
      3 months ago

      Why where the hostages surrounded by 120 civilians? At what point is a civilian not a civilian anymore? If he has hostages at home? Were there any non-civilians?

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        241·
        3 months ago

        Why where the hostages surrounded by 120 civilians

        Because Gaza is one of the densest urban areas in the world. When you level an apartment complex, you’re GOING to kill innocent people. Especially if you, like the Israeli government, consider all Palestinians Hamas and therefore do nothing to limit civilian casualties.

      • brvslvrnst@lemmy.mlEnglish
        171·
        3 months ago

        “Why do you make us do this! Oh woe to me, there is no other way to get these hostages other than to bomb a populated area. What else am I to do? pushes button How terrible that you made me do that! …now, I wonder how soon we can get some settlers over here.”

      • NatakuNox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        92·
        3 months ago

        Because Gaza is the most densely packet place on earth. You can literally run the langth of Gaza in an afternoon and the width of it in a lunch break. Not excusing anything Hamas did/does but where are the civilians to fucking go?

    • goferking0@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      3 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