During their release, the Israeli hostages have been made to suffer various indignities. Some of the girls and women, obviously frightened, have been surrounded by rifle-toting bezonians, pressing against them, screaming at them, pushing and pulling them this way and that, making it difficult for them, even with their Hamas guards, to make it to the Red Cross officials who were waiting to receive them.
Some of the hostages have been paraded on stages in front of Allahu-akbaring Hamas men. Some have been forced to sign documents expressing their “appreciation” for the “good treatment” they received from Hamas. All of them have apparently been told by their captors to smile for the cameras; some of the girls and women being released were ordered not just to smile, but to engage in joking banter with their guards, for if they did not, Hamas would take it out on those those Israelis still in captivity.
Three of the captives released — Doron Seinbrecher, Emily Damari, and Romi Gonen — were videotaped as they were handed “gift bags,” brown paper bags, really, that were said to contain mementos from their time held in captivity in Gaza. On each bag was the logo of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas. In each of the bags, there was a special certificate, also bearing the logo of the Al-Qassam brigades, titled “Release Agreement” in both Hebrew and Arabic, with Israeli media reporting that the document was signed by the Red Cross at the moment of handover.
God knows what Hamas hoped to achieve with that little farce. Israeli media has reported that those “gift bags” also contained photos of the hostages while they were in captivity, a map of the Gaza Strip, and Palestinian flag necklaces. How thoughtful. A keepsake, to remind those Israeli guests of Hamas’ hospitality. Ah, those blue remembered hills, those days of lost content, and those happy tunnels where I lay, and cannot come again. Who says Hamas doesn’t have a heart?
“We swore ‘never again,’ yet Israeli hostages return skeletal and tortured – comment,” by Zvika Klein, Jerusalem Post, February 8, 2025:
The faces are haunting: Or Levy, Eli Sharabi, and Ohad Ben Ami. Gaunt and hollow, their bodies frail, tell the story of 491 days in Hamas captivity. Sunken eyes, protruding bones, and skeletal frames ring an instant bell for Israelis and Jews everywhere: survivors of the Holocaust, the Muselmann of the concentration camps, and those who starved to the brink of death.
But when these hostages came home precisely 80 years after the fall of the Nazi regime, the world’s response was unimaginably detached.
The BBC, ever selective in its moral outrage, conveniently omitted their suffering from its homepage. CNN, on the other hand, saw fit to highlight the “emaciated” condition of Palestinian prisoners released in exchange-prisoners who, it must be said, received three meals a day, medical care, and family visits. The comparison is not only absurd; it is obscene.
Not one of the released Palestinians who have been released exhibited the “emaciated” condition that Hamas now claims. It simply makes up its lies, throws them out to the world media, which dutifully disseminates them without any semblance of investigation. I have repeatedly viewed the scenes of those released prisoners sticking their heads out of buses; all appear well-fed; not a single one whom I saw could be described as “emaciated.” They were provided with three meals a day, after all, food with the same nutritional value as what the soldiers of the IDF receive.
Many of the Israel hostages lived underground in dark, dank tunnels for months at a time. Quite a few were subject to sexual molestation, including repeated rapes of both female and male hostages. They were fed starvation diets. Some of them report being given one-half of a piece of pita as a day’s ration. Their wounds were not treated. They were beaten according to the whim of their guards. Only after all of the Israeli hostages, both the living and those murdered by Hamas while in captivity (Hamas will claim they were all killed in Israeli airstrikes), are returned, will it be possible for the full and terrible stories of their captivities to be told. And they must be.
somehistory says
Surrounded by a mob of well-fed and healthy ghouls, anyone who cared to look would see that the “starving” was not on the part of the citizens in gaza. The photos tell the story.
The hatred the nazis had for the Jews, centered in hitler and his demands, is replicated in hamas. And the foul and demonic treatment is also replicated.
hitler didn’t survive to see better times and neither will the ghouls of hamas. Their day of Judgment is coming.
Silo says
I really hope so.
Allot of the evil nazis lived good life in Europe and never brought to real justice. Due to rooted antisemitism within allot of Europeans – They didn’t have a choice.. and other foolish excuses..
The same thing with Hamas(and all other Muslim fanatics groups) and the antisemite progressive idiots.
Oh, they don’t hate the jews.. Only hate Israel, so this is probably different then they’re ancestors who turned blind eye when jews were murdered and the world civilisation almost destroyed.
bill says
With all due respect Mr Fitzgerald, they are not skeletal and hyperbole is not welcome here. There are hundreds of photos of the Nazi camp prisoners available for anybody who wants to see. The concentartion camp survivors were skeletal, and in fact some of them died after being given too much food by the liiberators. So while congratulating the released hostages and all who are still in captivity and respecting their courage and endurance let us be factual. Emaciated they may be but not skeletal. The latter terminology detracts from the inmates of the Nazi camps
who were actually being starved and worked to death.
Daniel Triplett says
If you had to choose for yourself as a woman, would you pick 18 months in a German Concentration Camp, or 18 months in a Mujahideen Gaza Rape Room?
Tony Rice says
Their day of judgement WILL come , in the next dimension into which we all go upon death. They will inhabit the dark lower regions and I knew people who were taken out of their bodies to go into that dimension and the darker regions to help those who repent and want to improve. Those regions are ghastly, Adolf and Putin are or will be there along with Hamas, Hezbollah and a lot more. The ardent followers of a certain ghoul.
somehistory says
I cannot agree.
JB says
The whore media being fed by USAID has it’s days counted!
Tony says
We are seeing the stark, harsh reality of Islam and its Muslims against Israelis and all Non-Muslims as taught in Islam’s Quran. The FRUIT of Islam is incessant WAR, terrorism, discrimination, slavery, malice, ISLAMIZATIONislamization, and violence against all Non-Muslims; this FACT must be taught and broadcast to the general public to prohibit Islam, its Mosques, its Courts, and its Schools. Also, Islam is an Antichrist System terrorizing Israel, Christians, and Non-Muslims. Plus, there is NO EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW in Islam or in Islamic Law(Quran 98:6-7; 9:29 and more). In Sahih Bukhari(V6,B60,N80), Abu Huraira narrates, “‘You(Muslims) are the best of peoples ever raised for mankind.’ means, the best of peoples for the people, as you bring them[Non-Muslims] with chains on their necks till they embrace Islam[see Quran 3:110].” See also Quran 3:22,151; 69:30-32; 98:6.
Non-Muslims CANNOT have peace with Islam and its Muslims because Islam and its murderous god, Allah, demand a continuous, Muslim war against unbelievers where Non-Muslims are CRIMINALS under Islam when Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” HENCE, NON-MUSLIMS MUST MAKE ISLAM, ITS MOSQUES, ITS SCHOOLS, ITS ORGANIZATIONS, ETC. ILLEGAL UNDER THE LAW. Similarly, Islam and its many Organizations must be identified and publicly declared to be MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS for their funding, teaching, and support of terrorism, violence, and discrimination against Non-Muslims(eg. Quran 9:5,29,111 and more).
Western Muslims seek to ensure Islam’s legitimacy against Non-Muslim societies, to impose Islamic Law in Western Legal Systems, and to advance Islam’s totalitarian goals to conquer the West. Consequently, Islam promotes a limitless, terroristic, Muslim war against unbelievers when Allah in Qur’an 49:15 says, “Surely the believers are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed JIHAD with THEIR MONEY AND THEIR LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.”
Deceitful Allah promises Heavenly Paradise to Muslims for acts of Muslim killing in terrorist attacks against Non-Muslims and Muslim hypocrites when Quran 9:111 says, “Surely Allah has purchased from the believers[Muslims] their souls and their money so that they may have the garden[Heavenly Paradise]. They engage in war for the sake of Allah, so they kill and are killed…”
Cynthia says
The world should be outraged. Instead, the leftist media takes the terrorists’ word that 7 of their prisoners had to go to the hospital. The hundreds of terrorists released by Israel should also be abhorrent to the world community.
All around, shameful!
Walter Sieruk says
The terrible treatment of the kidnapped hostages by the Muslims terrorists of Hamas , further confirms what was already well known before. Which is that there is absolutely no limits to the vile, heinous horrifically evils that the jihadists of Hamas will commit because of because of their demonic and malice-filled religion that is Islam.
Likewise it should always be kept in mind and never forgotten that the jihad entity, Hamas, is completely evil and its jihadist stooges likewise are totally wicked.
Walter Sieruk says
Those cruel jihadists of Hamas with their vicious starving and other brutal and misery inflecting ways they starved and in other ways abused their hostages is so horrifically wicked that Hamas terrorist are the mirror reflection of the most despicable horrific villains describe in the Bible.
Which reads “There feet are swift to shed blood; destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace have they not known.” Romans 3:15-17, [K.J.V.]