Izzat al-Rishq’s remarks came shortly after the Israeli army announced that it had discovered the bodies of six hostages in Gaza, asserting that they had been killed by Hamas.

“The ones who kill our people daily are the Israeli colonizers with American weapons. The hostages found in Gaza were not killed by us but by the relentless Zionist bombardment,” Rishq said in a statement.

He further criticized the U.S., saying, “If President [Joe] Biden truly cares about the lives of Israeli hostages, he should cease his support for this enemy with money and weapons and pressure Israel to end its aggression immediately.”

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    Sorry, did the person who took hostages just say “if you care about the lives” you should stop supporting Israel?

    This is why I still support Israel. Fuck these terrorists.

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        Every one of them until they stop attacking Israel and especially taking hostages.

        If your kids got take hostage, would you limit what you would do to get them back?

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          How many children have been taken hostage by the IDF from the West Bank without trial or judicial process, but instead by a military tribunal without a right to representation and the only testimony that matters is that of the soldiers that kidnapped them in the first place?

          Is it in the thousands? I think it is.

          They have children too.

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          When thousands of other kids were getting killed? When hostages are dying anyway, including by being shot at by the IDF while emerging unarmed, shirtless and waving a white flag? I sure as fuck would. In fact, I’d be telling the world that Israel was doing nothing but make my child’s life worth nothing.

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      Maybe ask israel to stop killing the hostages then.

      Rishq emphasized that Hamas had been more concerned about the lives of the hostages than Biden himself, citing Hamas’ agreement to a cease-fire proposal and the UN Security Council’s resolution, both of which were rejected by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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        Hamas could release them any time they want.

        They took them for a reason, to use them against Israel.

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      This war has terrorists on both sides. The Gaza population are caught in the middle and it’s entirely unfair. In retaliation of an awful terrorist event, Israel have flattened an entire country.

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        According to international law, Palestinians, including Hamas cannot be terrorists because they have an inherent human right to self -determination and resistance:

        In relevant part, the resolution not only went on to affirm the right “to self-determination, freedom and independence […] of peoples forcibly deprived of that right,[…] particularly peoples under colonial and racist regimes or other forms of alien domination” but noted the right of the occupied to “struggle … and to seek and receive support” in that effort. source

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          That inherent right does not extend to using any means to achieve it; just like a state’s right to self defence does not grant it the right to use any means to achieve it.

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      Are we at the point where we’re believing the word of random people from Hamas? Of course they blamed it on Israel. What kind of a new source repeats these claims without any factual checks?

      You’re getting downvoted, but you’re right.