34% of the IDF are women.

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https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/international-cooperation/idf-leads-the-way-in-gender-integration/#:~:text=In%20addition%20to%20requiring%20women,jobs%20are%20open%20to%20women.

I think this is sometimes forgotten when talking about the IDF. The small popiualtion of Israel means a significant proportion of its armed forces are women and as such are in danger of being wounded and killed.

I don't think this gender split in the IDF is talked about because it helps people to imagine the IDF consists solely of men when thinking of 'genocide' because women are in general more empathetic and less prone to violence against women and children.

Indeed when reporting of Plestinian casualties a distinction is made between women and men assuming women are non combatants (which in reality they are).

I absolutely echo that statement @SharonEllis

’try not to be nasty to your neighbours’ what childish naive standpoint to an indigenous population.

Some of the released hostages were very young women doing their conscription at observation posts on the border. They’d been reporting increased and unusual activity for some time but their reports were not heeded.

It reminds me of the way women were treated at Bletchley Park during WW2: intelligent, useful women doing the filing while the men disregarded them.

Some would say what 'they are doing wrong' is existing. The Hamas charter wants to wipe them.out.

Hezbollah terrorists don't like them. The Houthis, again terrorists don't like them. Iran fund the various terrorist groups in the middle east.

However, they get on with Jordan and Egypt and were getting closer ties with Saudi Arabia so terrorist groups from other countries wouldn't particularly like that.

And the people fundimg the terrorists are the theocratic terrorist state, Iran that oppresses its own people and urges the destruction of Israel. Its not Israel that's the problem.

On the subject of National Service, of which it appears some people did not realise happens in Israel and includes both men and women.

Will any of the released hostages be expected / required to complete their service.

I would hope not, they have done their ' time ' in more ways than one.