Maybe I am wrong here, but last I heard, all these "hostages" were actually POWs as in they were active Israeli "Defense" Force members captured by militants belonging to Hamas or other allied armed resistance groups. Military members who are captured are prisoners of war, not "hostages" under the Geneva convention. I mostly just bring this up constantly to forcefully remind the Nazis online that these weren't just happy little innocent kids captured (these specific people). And also to remind them that KHamas could have, and by many people's logic should have, simply executed the IOF soldiers for all the war crimes they participated in upon Palestinians. And yet they chose to abide by the laws of war as far as that goes. Just little sprinkles of "hmm, interesting... the barbarians had the perfect opportunity to do horrible barbaric things, yet did not... hmm..." to enrage dying, lead-poisoned boomer brains online. Even the light suggestion that everyone in the IOF deserves their own tribunal at this point is enough to send many off into incoherent racist rants.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Israel is allowed to invent any word it wants to describe anything it does. And American media will happily parrot it. Hamas is the government and took illegal settlers and their military cadre prisoner? No that sounds too legitimate. Hamas are terrorists and they took civilians hostage. There we go. Print it, ship it, air it, no questions asked.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

And then the American public will parrot it back again.