No hostage or ceasefire deal will save these individuals
Because that was the job of the previous ceasefire.
No matter how good or bad a hostage deal is, these people will not be on any list. That is because they were murdered on Israeli soil on that Saturday morning, Oct 7th, by Hamas and Hamas collaborators (no innocent civilians these) .
Remember: there was a ceasefire deal in effect until 6:30 that morning. That ceasefire was supposed to have protected Israelis and the foreigners in our midst from Hamas’ genocidal intentions. It was signed only 2.5 years earlier. Hamas is not known for respecting ceasefires. Yet Israel is engaging in negotiations for another one.
I would say that the people I am about to show you are casualties, not only of the release of Sinwar in the Shalit exchange for 1000 terrorists, but also of the 2021 ceasefire, reached before Hamas could be decapitated, before a ground invasion and more effective collapse of the Hamas administration and militia could be effected, all because Israel was afraid then of doing what it did after 7Oct23.
So here are only some of those who no deal will help. Except where otherwise noted, all images are used in accordance with Section 7A of Israel’s Copyright Law.
The youngest murder victim was a 14-hour-old newborn, delivered in an emergency procedure after his or her 9-months-pregnant mother was shot and killed. The mother remains unnamed; she was a Bedouin from a village near the City of Dimona.
The oldest murder victim was 88-year-old Chana Kritzman of Kibbutz Be’eri.
And here are just another nine random murder victims.
This video of the Nova Memorial site commemorating those murdered at the music festival was taken by Forest Rain, who writes Inspiration from Zion, and is used with her permission:
And no hostage deal will release the families of Lin and Ziv from the purgatory into which they were plunged when the lives of these two sweet young women were extinguished. They just wanted to dance. Remember that.
This should be enough to make us cry. The list of the 800 civilians murdered by Hamas on Oct 7th can be found here. It will be updated as more information becomes available (i.e., more bodies discovered being held in Gaza or more hostages murdered).
Just for your general education, you might want to click on this link to the Israel Policy Forum list of the four ceasefires ending the four previous wars Israel fought against Hamas since 2008 (it took power in 2007) — the last one of which, of course, was a ceasefire in effect since 2021. In other words, Hamas broke a 2.5-year-old ceasefire when it attacked on 7Oct23. That’s how much we can trust ceasefires.
You might also want to click on this Israeli government site listing the ceasefires to which Israel agreed DURING the fourth war and how they were violated by Hamas.
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This is a powerful piece of investigative research. It brings clarity and facts to a horrendous moment in our very recent history. I will use it to update my White Paper on the October 7, 2023 Jihadist Massacre and to make certain that these facts make their way into what is being taught in K-12 classrooms.
We know how much any hudna with Hamas is worth… nothing… I believe Hamas will reject this lifeline and on January 21, eradication of Hamas will commence..