After nearly seven weeks in captivity, 24 hostages seized by Hamas in its deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel are now free after crossing into Egypt. In exchange, Israel released 39 Palestinians hours later at the city of Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

  • @canEnglish
    2•7 months ago

    But they were in captivity? Why even bring semantics into something like this?

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      6•7 months ago

      They were arrested and jailed. The article should have done a better job not equating people convicted of crimes with people abducted from their homes as their families and neighbors were being murdered by a terrorist junta.

      I’m guessing the author is trying to “represent both sides equally.”

      • @[email protected]English
        6•7 months ago

        Nelson Mandela was also arrested and jailed by an Apartheid state.

        We have no way to know if these people actually did anything wrong.

        There should be a presumption of innocence.

      • Primarily0617
        5•7 months ago

        They were arrested and jailed.

        as a disclaimer, i don’t think i really know enough about the situation to comment on it holistically

        that said, if a state wants to find a justification to convict somebody, it can find it

        i don’t think that, in a war between two states, trusting what an instrument of one state says about an instrument of another is justification by itself