Israel Hasn’t Released Any of the Child Hostages it Has Kidnapped

When an Israeli IDF soldier does something despicable people like you say oh they’re only teens, kids messing about. They are traumatised from the ‘war’. But when actual Palestinian children are held for no reason all of a sudden they are adult equivalent. Double standards and emotive language indeed.

I’m glad more people are waking up to this bullshit.

And people care more about dead Israelis being returned than alive children. What about their parents needing peace?

Also, check out how many dead Palestinian children Israel has in freezers from years and years ago that they haven’t returned to their parents.

To the cost of the eradication of a whole race of people?

We have had ‘children’ rape and murder people in the US at that age. If you do the crime, then you must be held and punished for the safety of others. Age alone doesn’t mean anything, the details of their case are more relevant.

Nothing Israel has done seems at all civilised or admirable to me. Perhaps it is you who “believes lies”?

Israel is civilised and you believe lies so easily.

Civilised people do not imprison others without trial and treat children very very differently to adults. The term “child” is understood to mean under 18 and I don’t think pointing out 14 year olds can be tall is news to anyone. They are however still children.

Resolution isn't Israel's aim.

Obviously the word child is emotive...but as pp have pointed out, this isn't a load of four year olds. And remember the age of criminal responsibility in the UK is 10...and we have children in prison in the UK. Teens can and do get arrested and imprisoned all over the world.

Why don’t they let them go home?

You’re quite happy to believe with zero evidence that the Palestinian youths were just flinging pebbles and couldn’t possibly have been doing something similar to the child in the link?

think you may need to employ a bit more critical thinking

This is it. International journalists need to be allowed in, and to report impartially.

But I don't equate the Israeli government with British Jews at all.
It's obviously awful if British Jews are feeling unsafe, and the increase in antisemitism is dreadful.
But, the Israeli government, supported by western governments, is extremely right-wing and racist, and does treat Palestinians appallingly. I make a clear distinction between the government and the people, whom I'm guessing have a diverse range of views. When I'm critical of the Israeli authorities, I'm honestly not even remotely relating them to British Jews, or Jews around the world at all. I repudiate antisemitism totally.
It's really difficult though, if Israel is doing something wrong and we can't criticise them for fear of being labelled antisemitic. I think most people criticising Israel aren't antisemitic. But, of course there are some, and I'd be the first to say how wrong that is.
I can criticise Israel and call out antisemitism at the same time, and I do.
If I've ever not worded any of my posts in a way that doesn't make that clear, then I'm truly sorry. Please know, if you ever read my posts, that my criticism of Israel is about the Israeli authorities, not the entire population, and never ever non-Israeli Jews. I take as I find.

There's a lot of people wise to it now, and pushing back, and supporting you. And the others keep showing themselves up, like that awful doctor, and ordinary people see it.

I don’t understand this forum. Is it just propaganda? I am devastated. It’s history repeating itself.,I am terrified that we will be ethnically cleansed once more like we were from Yemen who used these EXACT techniques of lies and false information to get rid of Jews and Hindus

Well Hamas was given a choice about who to release. They got many many convicted terrorist murderers for bodies of innocent dead Jews and Hindus. Anyone at this point still trying to use false narrative and propaganda to paint Israel as the wrong ones here are very innocent, or brainwashed. Or Muslim.
Hamas chose to not to release any of these “kidnapped children” haha how easily you believe the Israelis would kidnap children and how indignant that a brutal, barbaric terrorist organisation would not. This is gaslighting 101. My parents went through this vile propaganda when they were ethnically cleansed from Yemen. By the way, do you know that they actually DO kidnap children there? Little girls aged 8 taken from their homes to be married. Hundreds of them. Do you see those poor children in Nigeria? Maybe stop obsessing about Israel who are defending their existence and rather call out Hamas, or the houthis? No? Kidnapped children, this is N@zi propaganda technique. I am sad for my family that they escaped to this country to people who believe those things. Wow.

Well it’s pretty obvious isn’t it - there is a difference between throwing a stone and throwing a 2kg rock at a persons head killing them. One is actual murder. As I mentioned 41% of the Palestinian children have been held without charge, ie they have committed no crimes. But this case that you are highlighting a case where 5 Israeli settlers murdered a Palestinian women, 4 were released within days and the other was placed under house arrest and eventually released as well. Interesting that Israeli teens go free after murdering someone but countless Palestinians are imprisoned without any charges filed.

What the fuck has a child’s height to do with anything?
Ate you seriously suggesting that tall 14 year old children aren’t children?

My son was 5ft 11 at 14. At 22 he is a 6ft 5 adult. He was very much still a child at 14.

Your post is disgraceful.

www.dci-palestine.org/isolated_and_alone

From a dci report from 2020 detailing the use of isolation on child detainees

Obaida aged 15 held in solitary confinement for 12 days, and beaten

Israel have been detaining Palestinian children for years

What do you think about the child in this article?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-46987850.amp

Do you think he shouldn’t have faced any consequences or been detained?

After all, he was only throwing stones.