As hostages are being released from Hamas, we have to acknowledge that they're already breaking the terms of the deal of the pause in fighting in that, if they've taken multiple members of one family, they're releasing all but one or two members of the family.
There has been at least one account of two children being released with Hamas knowing that their mother was murdered on October 7th, and their father was still in captivity.
This is a hostage within a hostage situation that we've seen for decades, and not just from Hamas. Hamas intends to behead the remaining family members in captivity if the released hostages, or anybody in the media, says anything other than that Hamas was entirely humane to their victims.
What's more, one of the hostages, a woman of her seventies, described her quarters as "suffocating." She was essentially kept in solitary confinement without access to sunlight for fifty days.
Most people on the left are pushing against solitary confinement for convicted criminals who continue to offend in prison on he basis of it being "inhumane."
What I find odd are the occasional posts I see harping on the plight of the Palestinians. It's not that their point are all without merit but things tend to be said in a way that ignores that Hamas leads Palestine and what Hamas just did as if nothing happened. It doesn't even seem intentional exactly, it's more like some kind of weird cognitive dissonance.
In any case, the plight of the Palestinians is not going to improve significantly while a terrorist organization remains in power there. Hamas will see to that.
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