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Breaking News - Shiri Bibas has not been returned

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AniBocha · 20/02/2025 23:38

https://news.sky.com/story/israel-says-it-has-not-received-hostages-remains-and-hamas-handed-over-unidentified-body-13313681

As if the anguish isn't enough!

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OpheliaWasntMad · 22/02/2025 14:32

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SharonEllis · 22/02/2025 14:27

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This.

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stomachamelon · 22/02/2025 14:16

@Liv999 but it's not though is it. Anymore than me saying the opposite.

@Stirabout all of that is supposition as well. You don't know any of that to be true and given their track history eg telling hostages on stage their whole family have been murdered there is not much evidence that they 'thought' anything.

Much like their display. No evidence that's what they wanted/ thought. Does cheering and dancing remind people how hostages died? How toddlers dragged away with their mother terrified went on to pass away?

I don't think they do anything without considering the optics. They just aren't the pleasant ones you think they are.

inamarina · 22/02/2025 14:13

Stirabout · 22/02/2025 14:09

This comment is just deflecting from my original post.
I commented
Netanyahu asked for the Red Cross to check on remaining hostages after the first hostage release.
Hamas allowed this to happen and it did.

Nothing more

Theres actually nothing difficult for anyone to understand about this. It’s just straight facts.

How very generous of Hamas.
Netanyahu and the hostages’ families also asked the Red Cross to take some medications to the hostages.
Red Criss refused/ claimed Hamas wouldn’t allow it.

Stirabout · 22/02/2025 14:09

GentleScroller · 22/02/2025 13:58

You are being crass, i.e. insensitive. You referenced the hostages being returned and being checked up on by the Red Cross like it is a regular occurrence and acceptable practice that we should be grateful for. There is nothing acceptable about taking civilians and holding them in captivity, dead or alive, and using them as human shields and bartering chips.

Your total lack of understanding is very apparent of this conflict and international humanitarian law, which has not been given to the hostages in full, as mentioned by SharonEllis. Plus, the chequered past between the Red Cross, Israel and Jews, as cited by stomachamelon.

This comment is just deflecting from my original post.
I commented
Netanyahu asked for the Red Cross to check on remaining hostages after the first hostage release.
Hamas allowed this to happen and it did.

Nothing more

Theres actually nothing difficult for anyone to understand about this. It’s just straight facts.

SharonEllis · 22/02/2025 14:09

OpheliaWasntMad · 22/02/2025 14:07

Wow - You’re still on this thread about the Bibas family trying to convince us that Israel is to blame….
unbelievable .

This thread has moved into a very disturbing place indeed.

inamarina · 22/02/2025 14:08

Stirabout · 22/02/2025 13:54

Yes I do.
They, as I said previously, thought they were returning the right people.
Their ‘display’ at the return was obviously their way of reminding everyone how the family died.
Clearly that’s how they work. ( Although personally I think it was obvious news outlets would be updating, reminding and reporting stories of how they died on their return anyway. So was irrelevant ).

Their ‘display’ at the return was obviously their way of reminding everyone how the family died.

What does this even mean?

SharonEllis · 22/02/2025 14:08

Stirabout · 22/02/2025 13:54

Yes I do.
They, as I said previously, thought they were returning the right people.
Their ‘display’ at the return was obviously their way of reminding everyone how the family died.
Clearly that’s how they work. ( Although personally I think it was obvious news outlets would be updating, reminding and reporting stories of how they died on their return anyway. So was irrelevant ).

WTF. How do you know they thought they were returning the right people? Why do you think they managed to find poor Shiri's body so quickly? How many bodies have they got stacked up there that they could accidentally make such a mistake? Their grotesque propaganda display with a huge antisemitic banner showing Netanyahu as a blood sucking vampire was just their way of showing the world how they want to portray how they died. And you are totally relaxed about that? Amd you accept the terrorists account of how they died and not the forensic report provided by the Israelis.

Are you aware that its illegal to support a proscribed terrorist organisation?

OpheliaWasntMad · 22/02/2025 14:07

Liv999 · 22/02/2025 13:48

It's more than an opinion I'm afraid

Wow - You’re still on this thread about the Bibas family trying to convince us that Israel is to blame….
unbelievable .

GentleScroller · 22/02/2025 13:58

Stirabout · 22/02/2025 13:35

@GentleScroller
Why the crass comment.
The Red Cross were given access to check on hostages after the first release.
They just were!
They confirmed they did so.
Theres nothing crass about telling the truth

You are being crass, i.e. insensitive. You referenced the hostages being returned and being checked up on by the Red Cross like it is a regular occurrence and acceptable practice that we should be grateful for. There is nothing acceptable about taking civilians and holding them in captivity, dead or alive, and using them as human shields and bartering chips.

Your total lack of understanding is very apparent of this conflict and international humanitarian law, which has not been given to the hostages in full, as mentioned by SharonEllis. Plus, the chequered past between the Red Cross, Israel and Jews, as cited by stomachamelon.

Stirabout · 22/02/2025 13:54

inamarina · 22/02/2025 13:47

And yet they chose to do it, again and again.
Do you still think they care about how they come across on the world stage?

Yes I do.
They, as I said previously, thought they were returning the right people.
Their ‘display’ at the return was obviously their way of reminding everyone how the family died.
Clearly that’s how they work. ( Although personally I think it was obvious news outlets would be updating, reminding and reporting stories of how they died on their return anyway. So was irrelevant ).

Liv999 · 22/02/2025 13:48

stomachamelon · 22/02/2025 13:40

@Liv999 it's opinion.

It's more than an opinion I'm afraid

inamarina · 22/02/2025 13:47

Stirabout · 22/02/2025 13:33

Dreadful.
I thought that was truly disgusting

Everyone deserves dignity in death. Everyone!

And yet they chose to do it, again and again.
Do you still think they care about how they come across on the world stage?

stomachamelon · 22/02/2025 13:44

@Stirabout The Red Cross played a role in a Hamas led production and shared a stage with them whilst standing back when hostages where paraded and heckled by 'civilians'

They are nothing but self serving Uber drivers.

The history of the Red Cross is somewhat chequered when it comes to the Jews and Israel something I imagine Hamas enjoys.

stomachamelon · 22/02/2025 13:40

@Liv999 it's opinion.

inamarina · 22/02/2025 13:40

Stirabout · 22/02/2025 13:21

My post relates to news at the time of the first ceasefire hostage release. A pp asked a question on the running thread. I responded.

Of note Hamas let the Red Cross check on hostages after the first release and at the request of the Israeli Govn.

Of note I haven’t seen any news relating to Hamas releasing videos of dead hostages that were then returned alive, so I can’t comment on that. I have looked across the board at various news outlets to check though.

Edited

There you go:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-forced-daniella-gilboa-to-stage-her-own-death-during-captivity-her-mother-says/amp/

Former hostage Daniella Gilboa was forced by Hamas to stage her own death.

You can’t have looked all that hard, I’ve come across this information upon Daniella’s release without looking for it.

Stirabout · 22/02/2025 13:39

SharonEllis · 22/02/2025 13:32

That may explain it. I'd suggest researching Hamas's actual behaviour rather than the propganda, apologising and sheer naivety on these threads

Please don’t demeen my comments.

I read across all news outlets and am happy to see all facts !
Im not interested in propaganda, I don’t do twitter and Facebook. I read news reports although obviously theres less of that available these days with less reporters on the ground.

Stirabout · 22/02/2025 13:35

SharonEllis · 22/02/2025 13:33

And the Red cross should have been given access in captivity. Extraordinary.

@GentleScroller
Why the crass comment.
The Red Cross were given access to check on hostages after the first release.
They just were!
They confirmed they did so.
Theres nothing crass about telling the truth

Stirabout · 22/02/2025 13:33

inamarina · 22/02/2025 13:28

How do you think parading hostages around and playing party music while delivering bodies in coffins makes them look on the world stage?

Dreadful.
I thought that was truly disgusting

Everyone deserves dignity in death. Everyone!

SharonEllis · 22/02/2025 13:33

GentleScroller · 22/02/2025 13:32

No, you are the "one who stirs the pot." You are repeating false information provided by Hamas and making suggestive and disparaging remarks aimed at the Israeli government.

"Hamas let the Red Cross check on hostages after the first release and at the request of the Israeli Govn".

Are you deliberately being crass?

You do realise that hostage-taking is prohibited under international humanitarian law (IHL).

And the Red cross should have been given access in captivity. Extraordinary.

SharonEllis · 22/02/2025 13:32

Stirabout · 22/02/2025 13:30

No.
Ive been on these threads for years.

That may explain it. I'd suggest researching Hamas's actual behaviour rather than the propganda, apologising and sheer naivety on these threads

Stirabout · 22/02/2025 13:32

Liv999 · 22/02/2025 13:28

Any man who supports a terrorist group when it suits him is capable of anything, or was that propaganda too?

Agree @stomachamelon
I should have said Netanyahu and the Israeli Government to be more thorough.

GentleScroller · 22/02/2025 13:32

Stirabout · 22/02/2025 13:21

My post relates to news at the time of the first ceasefire hostage release. A pp asked a question on the running thread. I responded.

Of note Hamas let the Red Cross check on hostages after the first release and at the request of the Israeli Govn.

Of note I haven’t seen any news relating to Hamas releasing videos of dead hostages that were then returned alive, so I can’t comment on that. I have looked across the board at various news outlets to check though.

Edited

No, you are the "one who stirs the pot." You are repeating false information provided by Hamas and making suggestive and disparaging remarks aimed at the Israeli government.

"Hamas let the Red Cross check on hostages after the first release and at the request of the Israeli Govn".

Are you deliberately being crass?

You do realise that hostage-taking is prohibited under international humanitarian law (IHL).

inamarina · 22/02/2025 13:31

GentleScroller · 22/02/2025 13:17

Sorry, what's the point you are making? Hamas are a terrorist organisation that has repeatedly lied and failed to disclose for over 16 months whether Israeli citizens are dead or alive and has refused to disclose this information to even the Red Cross. Many of the hostage families were shown videos produced by Hamas, implying their relatives were dead. Some have been released alive. Maybe now you finally understand why a nation refused to give up on Shiri, Ariel and Kfir.

The point blank refusal to see Hamas for who they are is truly astonishing.
‘But Hamas said…’ - sure, must be true then.