The family of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin announced the young man’s death early Sunday, ending a relentless campaign by his parents to rescue him that included meetings with world leaders and an address to the Democratic convention last month.
Goldberg-Polin, 23, was seized by militants at a music festival in southern Israel on Oct. 7. The native of Berkeley, California, lost part of his left arm to a grenade in the attack. In April, a Hamas-issued video showed him, his left hand missing and clearly speaking under duress, sparking new protests in Israel urging the government to do more to secure his and others’ freedom.
6 hostages’ bodies were rescued by IDF. Signs show they were killed in the past week by Hammas in a tunnel.
So we can reasonably assume they were alive until the IDF ramped things up in both Gaza and the West Bank.
yeah. The same way that the allies are responsible for the jews killed in Bergen-Belsen because the Nazis sped up killing them as the allies approached
/s obviously
The Nazis didn’t have prisoner release on the negotiating table. I’m not saying Hamas’ terms were right, but the IDF hardly exhausted all options, or even most options, before they went “oh boy here I go killing again”.
Also, the IDF previously killed hostages that were topless waiving white, such is their bloodlust.
What type of bs comment is this. We can also safely assume they had a very happy life until hammas decided to kidnap them on OCT 7.
Did hammas expect IDF to not come and take back kidnapped citizens? Was hammas expecting Israel to just sit aside and look while 250 of its people were brutally kidnapped?
We can also safely assume they had a very happy life until hammas decided to kidnap them on OCT 7.
Absolutely. However they were kept alive until recently. What happened recently? Israel stepped up its assault. This is a strong correlation.
Does the IDF expect Hamas to just hand over hostages when they come in? If Israel were sincere about their desire to rescue hostages they would be acting differently.
The kind that will get upvoted 4:1 and is designed to bait you into getting banned here because Lemmy totally hasn’t become Deadditt^2.
Not trying to be pedantic, but you recover the body once someone is dead. Rescue specifically means that you’re trying to get to a person before further injury or death can occur. Recovering someone’s remains is done almost purely out of respect for our need for burials and closure. It’s a really solomn and respectful thing that’s not to be taken lightly, so recover is absolutely the right word to use here.
Source: I did some search and rescue training as a kid.
