I hope you care also about Palestinian babies. Like the premature babies at al-Nasr Children's Hospital. When the staff was forced by the IDF to evacuate (by literal death threats to the doctors), they were left behind because they did not have the ability to safely transport premature babies and the staff received assurances from an Israeli official (on a recorded call) that the babies would be rescued. They did not. The babies died alone in the hospital. And then their bodies were eaten by stray dogs. And the journalist who broke the story, Mohammed Balousha, was later killed by the IDF. |
I do care very much about Palestinian children. Which makes it all so tragic. What did Hamas and their supporters gain by invading Israel and committing all those atrocities? What was the purpose? I can see that Hamas and their supporters are declaring victory while standing in the rubble of Gaza. Really? This is what Palestinians in Gaza see as a victory? It all seems very sad and pathetic to me. Until Palestinians turn on Hamas I don't think there's much of a future for Palestinian children in Gaza. It's going to be grim for years until Palestinians choose leadership that actually cares about the future. But right now, Palestinian adults seem consumed by Islamic extremism and reflexive terrorism. You'd think after 70 years, they'd try something different. But instead they choose to support Hamas, which only leads to destruction. They clearly don't care about the future for Palestinian children. It's a tragedy. |
Agreed. I want to wash my hands of the whole area. Hamas are monsters. The ultra orthodox and settlers are monsters. I don’t want any of them getting American tax money or support. And I want their supporters in the US who aren’t citizens deported. Lets get rid of these bloodthirsty cretins. I’m willing to give smaller sums of money to Israel to support a US military presence, because routing money to places that view women as lower status than livestock (Saudi Arabia, Palestine, etc) is not acceptable and geopolitically the US needs a presence. But this open pocketbook approach has to stop. |
The Palestinians apparently think that being allowed to remain alive is a huge victory, rather than the best they could hope for under the circumstances they created for themselves. Of course, if Oct. 7 had not happened, 47K more Palestinians would still be alive and Gaza would not require rebuilding from the ground up, but that's quite inconvenient to acknowledge if you're pro-Hamas. Still, the remaining few Hamas militants will prance around in shiny new uniforms and green headbands supplied by Iran and smuggled in underground, proclaiming a great victory in their alternate reality and planning their next atrocity. |
Self-inflicted wounds beget little sympathy. This was all totally avoidable and needless. Take it up with Hamas. |
All THREE of them??? WHERE ARE THE REST? |
Live and learn: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2018/10/gaza-great-march-of-return/ |
Below is a list of the Palestinians freed yesterday. Their names and stories are equally as important as the Israeli hostages returned yesterday.
9 of them are 17 or younger. Several on the list were freed in the November 2023 truce, only to have been re-arrested by Israel since then. Nawal Fatiha, 23 Aseel Osama Shehada, 18 Tamara Abu Laban, 24 Jenin Mohammed Amr, 22 Nafisa Rashid Farid Zourba, 37 Khalida Kanaan Jarrar, 61 Yasmine Abdel-Rahman Abu Srour, 26 Fatima Nimr al-Rimawi, 52 Dalal Mohammed Suleiman Khasib (al-Arouri), 53 Fatima Mohammed Suleiman Saqr (al-Arouri), 48 Rana Jamal Mohammed Darbas, 35 Zahra Wahib Abdel-Fattah Khadraj, 52 Balqis Issa Ali Zawahra, 33 Duha Azzam Ahmad al-Wahsh, 29 Halima Fayeq Suleiman Abu Amara, 22 Mona Ahmed Qasim Abu Hussein, 46 Bushra Jamal Mohammed al-Tawil, 31 Raeda Ghanem Mohammed Abdel-Majeed Barghouti, 46 Murjana Mohammed Mustafa Hreish, 32 Walaa Khaled Tanji, 28 Rawda Musa al-Akhras (Abu Ajamiyeh), 47 Rula Ibrahim Abdel-Rahim Hassanein, 30 Ahmed Bashar Jumaa Abu Aliya, 18 Saja Zuhair al-Muaddi, 27 Shaimaa Mohammed Abdel-Jalil Rawajbeh, 25 Salwa Attiya Mahmoud Hamdan, 45 Rose Yousef Mohammed Khweis, 17 Fatima Youssef Mustafa Salha, 36 Haneen Akram al-Masaed, 30 Jihad Ghazi Ahmed Joudeh, 36 Nidaa Ali Ahmad Salah (al-Zughaibi), 37 Amal Ziyad Omar Shujaia, 21 Lubna Mazen Salim Talalweh, 46 Ola Mahmoud Qasim Azher (Jouda), 22 Ayat Yousef Saleh Mahfouz, 33 Hadeel Mohammed Hussein Hijaz (Shatara), 32 Wafa Ahmed Abdullah Nimr, 21 Rasha Ghassan Mohammed Hijjawi, 40 Zeina Majd Mohammed Barbar Israa Khader Ahmed Ghneimat (Lafi), 40 Tahani Jamal Abed Ashour, 49 Aya Omar Youssef Ramadan, 23 Shaimaa Omar Youssef Ramadan, 19 Dunia Shtayyeh Marouf Shtayyeh, 20 Alaa Jad Nabhan Shaheen, 37 Nahil Kamal Mustafa Masalmeh, 37 Khitam Arif Hassan Habaybeh, 50 Aseel Mohammed Adnan Eid al-Yassini, 20 Alaa Samir Harb Abu Rahima, 27 Baraa Hatem Hafez Fuqaha, 25 Shatha Nawaf Jarabaa, 23 Dania Saqr Mohammed Hanatsheh, 22 Saja Imad Saad Daraghmeh, 19 Al-Yamama Ibrahim Hassan Hreinat, 21 Raghad Walid Mahmoud Amr, 24 Hanan Ammar Bilal Ma’alawani, 23 Raghad Khader Deeb Mubarak, 23 Ashwaq Mohammed Ayyad Awad, 23 Iman Ibrahim Ahmed Zaid, 40 Tahrir Badran Badr Jaber, 44 Abla Mohammed Othman Abdel-Rasoul (Sa’adat), 68 Israr Abdel-Fattah Mohammed al-Lahham, 42 Myassar Mohammed Saeed al-Faqih, 60 Abeer Mohammed Hamdan Ba’ara, 33 Samah Bilal Abdel-Rahman Souf (Hijjawi), 25 Margaret Mohammed Mahmoud al-Ra’i, 53 Latifa Khaled Ramadan Mashasha, 34 Israa Mustafa Mohammed Berri, 54 Alaa Khaled Mohammed Saqr al-Arouri, 21 Lana Farouk Naeem Fawalha, 25 Jamal Kaabneh, 18 Adam Hadara, 18 Mouadh Omar Abdullah al-Haj, 17 Ibrahim Sultan Ibrahim Zumour, 17 Abdel-Rahman Jamil Khudeir, 18 Saeed Mizyed Saeed Salim, 18 Mohammed Aman Fawzi Bishkar, 18 Issam Mamoun Abu Diab, 18 Thaer Ayoub Rashid Abu Sarah, 17 Fahmi Mohammed Fahmi Faroukh, 17 Qasim Iyad Mohammed Jaafreh, 17 Youssef Jamal Ayyad al-Hreimi Firas Jihad Ahmed al-Maqdisi, 18 Abdel-Aziz Mohammed Atawneh, 19 Fadi Bassam Mohammed Hindi, 17 Osama Nasser Jibran Abed Ataya, 18 Ayham Ali Issa Jaradat, Sair, al-Khalil, 18 Mahmoud Mohammed Daoud Aleiwat, 15 Laith Mohammed Naji Kamil, 17 Ahmed Walid Mohammed Khashan, 18 |
True, both of these murderous sides are indeed awful as are those living outside of the region that are supporting these evil sides. We should all support all innocent people caught in the middle of senseless conflicts throughout the world. |
Preemies brought it upon themselves? Okay |
Still waiting for ALL Oct 7 hostages to be released. and waiting. and waiting. |
Check the rubble left behind by the IDF, funded by my tax dollars. I suspect that’s where you’ll find the bodies since it’s been pretty clear since 10/7 that the IDF has done 100% of the killing of the tens (hundreds?) of thousands of Palestinians and nearly all of the much smaller group of Israelis … |
Thank you for posting this |
Where are the backstories around why they were detained? I doubt Israel felt like providing free room and board for random Palestinians just so that they'd be safer and better fed than in Gaza. |
Oh, another thing I’ve learned in the past year is that I will never trust Amnesty International again. I should have mentioned that. |