After nearly seven weeks in captivity, 24 hostages seized by Hamas in its deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel are now free after crossing into Egypt. In exchange, Israel released 39 Palestinians hours later at the city of Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

  • NobodyElse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    104·
    9 months ago

    24 Hamas hostages + 39 Israeli hostages = scores of Palestinian and Israeli hostages.

    I’m just surprised that they didn’t refer to the women and children held hostage by Israel as “prisoners“ or “detainees“, while referring to those held by Hamas as “hostages”. As if there’s some benign reason to capture women and children and then use them as currency if one party does it but not the other.

    • livus@kbin.social
      2·
      9 months ago

      Plus we can add “10 Thai citizens and a Filipino citizen,” who are not part of the count.

      Edit, update sounds like they were part of the count. The text is still

      10 Thai citizens and a Filipino citizen," were among those released Friday and were not a part of the truce agreement.

      But earlier in the article it says they are part of the count.