Israel has killed one child every hour

You're compassion is touching.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewyk4ezeedo

Thegreyhound You could maybe help by offering yourself in exchange for one of those there now.

They could go home to their families and you could be as kind as you like to those torturing you.

I don't think its me that's doing the dodging here!

Anyway. 20 000 children murdered by the IDF.

If you read what actual hostages say about what they thought when hostages it is rarely if ever bloodthirsty nonsense such as this.

No. I responded to a pp who said 'As pointed out many many times before the practise of utilising children as soldiers was banned by Hamas 20 years ago'.

This is incorrect. Or at leadt they carried on despite the 'ban". It wasn't me that brought it up though.

Why are you and that pp so invested in this particular piece of misinformation?

No one in the world is saying what you have said at the end of your post. Offensive rubbish.

I've always thought that if I were taken hostage I'd expect my government to come for me. I'd know I could even be killed in the fighting, but I'd yearn for the sounds of bombs dropping and rockets hitting the buildings my captors were hiding in.

If it stopped because people wanted to bekind to the terrorists holding me that could be worse than the torture.

Some will say "but not all Palestinians are evil" and yet they have the power to rise up and stop this and don't.

So they are complicit even if they were not the ones cheering the murderers.

They have had 700 chances to end it too.

Every day since that Oct 7th when Hamas went out to have some fun murdering, raping and stealing children Hamas have had the option of ending the fighting.

They could have released the hostages.

Even if you don't trust Israel to stop the other countries involved would have insisted.

Everyone hates how long this has gone on and wants to end it and send in aid and help rebuild. They can''t without the cooperation of Hamas and they won't get that.

So 700 days on which it could have stopped, but Hamas want Palestinian deaths. They have lots of Palestinians to spare and each one killed helps recruit one or more people at a nice dinner party in a safe and comfortable western nation.

"oh those poor Palestinians" they say "we should force those awful Jews to stop trying to get the hostages back. It's a terrorist's human right to keep hostages anyway"

Posters here fell over themselves to say how he would have grown up to be terrorist anyway so it doesn't matter.

What a vivid imagination you have ... any more examples of things that never happened?

The footage online of this massacre on is horrific. Dead children being pulled out of the rubble with others still trapped.

https://news.sky.com/story/israel-kills-22-people-including-9-children-in-horrific-massacre-in-gaza-palestinian-officials-say-13437228

Yes it is terrible the things being done to children

www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/what-is-israel-doing-to-its-own-schoolchildren/

I don't see the relevance. Who here is suggesting a child is not a child if they are Palestinian? Other than the person who said Hamas doesn't use child soldiers. Obviously Hamas do use under 18s for military roles. So I guess you could argue that they are saying Palestinian under 18s are not children.

I was refuting blatant misinformation. Why would anyone who cares about children downplay the horrific reality that Hamas brutalises its own children? Truly, I don't understand the things I read here.

It reminds me of a thread it would nearly two years ago now where 8 year old Adam was executed, shot in the back of the head by the IDF whilst running away from them in the West Bank. Posters here fell over themselves to say how he would have grown up to be terrorist anyway so it doesn't matter. It was disgusting. Always the same justifications.

A child is not a child to some if they are Palestinian children. We shouldn't be surprised that that idea is in the UK too when as the poll from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in early June showed it is a widespread belief in Israel that there are no innocents in Gaza.