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[–] JayTreeman@fedia.io 115 points 3 months ago (57 children)

I'm struggling with everything on this article. On the one hand anytime a hostage has been freed, that's good news. On the other, at what cost. 40 000 dead. That's the easy stat. Amputations are also incredibly high. Most of them kids and performed without anesthetic. This is the first time the IDF has rescued hostages. So I'm sitting here with my initial feeling of 'oh, that's good news' ,and then I think about the wider picture and context, and it doesn't seem so good anymore.

[–] smnwcj@fedia.io 38 points 3 months ago (14 children)

And half a dozen months ago they could have had a ceasefire to have them released, along with the ones that STILL aren't released.

[–] kbotc@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

Nah, that was the one that Egypt fucked up. There had not been an actual agreed upon hostage transfer since the first one. Hamas also won’t give actual information on the hostages. This whole thing is just war crimes the whole way down.

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[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Three months ago the IDF also rescued 3 hostages by killing many civilians. They bomb entire neighbourhoods to rubble as a distraction mechanism for their teams to go in.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They bomb entire neighbourhoods to rubble as a distraction mechanism for their teams to go in.

Those human shields had it coming. /S or I guess they're human bait now?

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