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Forces had no direct confrontation with Hamas terrorists who killed hostages; 'The IDF and security forces are doing everything possible to bring all hostages home as quickly as possible. This news shakes us all,' says army spokesperson Hagari

Israeli forces discovered the bodies of six hostages in a 65-foot-deep tunnel in Rafah, approximately a kilometer from where hostage Farhan Alkadi was recently freed. The IDF had no precise intelligence on the hostages' location in recent months but knew there were captives in the sector, leading to a gradual and cautious operation in Rafah since the ground offensive began.

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[–] mwguy@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Because now they'll be pursued for the rest of their life. Free a hostage and you have essentially a get out of jail free card.

[–] GojuRyu@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do you really believe that any member of hamas would be safe just because they let some hostages go? How would that work? Should they surrender themselves to the IDF while delivering the hostages, just notify them of where they are so they won’t be bombed or how would that all work?

[–] mwguy@infosec.pub 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How would that work? Should they surrender themselves to the IDF while delivering the hostages, just notify them of where they are so they won’t be bombed or how would that all work?

Israel has tip lines set up for Hamas members and members of the Gazan public to call. You call and say, "me and my boys will have an unspecified number of hostages at x location at y time and are looking to surrender. Then you show up at that time with those resources and surrender.

[–] GojuRyu@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are there any examples of it being used successfully and the aftermath of it? This is a genuine question stemming from my own ignorance on the subject. I would really like for that to be a good way of handeling situations where hostages are released, but I could easily understand why a member of Hamas might have reservations if they do not have reason to trust the system.
If there is good reason to trust it I will agree that that would have been a viable and good way out and should have been used.

[–] mwguy@infosec.pub 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, every so often a news report comes out about individual Hamas members and cells surrendering. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=individual+hamas+members+surrendering+to+IDF

[–] GojuRyu@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately I am still unable to find any stories that tells what happens to the Hamas members after their surrender. I’m unsure if they get treated well or are sent to the same facilities in which there are reports of human rights violations amounting to psykological and physical torture.

I did find some examples of successful surenders, but nothing where hostages were explicitly mentioned to have sweetened the deal of surrender.
I do believe you may be right but I have been unable to verify it myself.

[–] mwguy@infosec.pub 1 points 2 months ago

With their countrymen reportedly dying by the thousands in their behalf. They should surrender en-mass anyway. They've been defeated. Prolonging the war only prolongs the suffering.

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's a genocide on buddy. They already were.

[–] mwguy@infosec.pub 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There wasn't a "genocide" on Oct 6th.

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just cause you weren't paying attention yet doesn't mean it wasn't happening.

[–] mwguy@infosec.pub 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ahh so are you one of those "genocide is what I feel it is" folk or one of those "genocide is when the Jews are still alive" sort of folk?

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did you know there are Jewish palastinians? On top of that, Palestinians are semitic. You can't call racist when the group I'm defending is in the same racial group and contains religious Jewish folk. It ain't about being Jewish, it's about the fact I have seen palastinians getting shot in the street for literally my whole life. My whole life I'm hearing news every now and then how Israel overstepped again and ethnically cleanse an area of palastinians. How they kicked palastinians out of their home. I've seen videos of Israeli settlers kicking palastinians out of their home at gunpoint saying that the state sold them the house. It's a state doing a genocide. It isn't "the Jews" you fucking moron. It's the state of Israel. Interesting how you see Israel as being an ethnostate but don't see their removal of natives as genocide. But that's what happens when you don't think about your ideas longer than 5 seconds.

[–] mwguy@infosec.pub 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Did you know there are Jewish palastinians?

About 50% of Israeli Jews are descendants Arabs, Persians and North Africans who were forcibly relocated to Israel by the leaders of the Arab world or native to the region. Israel is a reservation, agreed to and established by Arabs as part of the agreement between their leaders and European leaders to overthrow the Ottoman Empire.

I've seen videos of Israeli settlers kicking palastinians out of their home at gunpoint saying that the state sold them the house. It's a state doing a genocide.

In the West Bank or the Gaza strip? Because there are no and have been no settlements in the Gaza Strip in a generation.

So again, is it a genocide because you feel like it or because they're Jews?

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I ain't arguing. You are an evil motherfucker willing to justify a genocide. Ain't no convincing you. Ain't no convincing me. Your wrong and I hope one day your heart opens and sees it. Or at the very least I hope for your sake the afterlife contains no hell.

[–] mwguy@infosec.pub 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're an ignorant person man. Your mistaking a war with a genocide. Hamas can end the conflict tomorrow by surrendering. A conflict they started by murdering, enslaving and raping undeniably innocent people.

If Hamas surrenders and the bombs keep falling nobody will be yelling genocide more than I. But equating incompetence on the part of Hamas's defense strategy and stubbornness on it's war goals with a genocide. Hamas' blind and overconfident aggression is the cause of theses deaths in Gaza. Being blind to that doesn't make you moral.

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Soulless, heartless, justifier of genocide. I ain't talking to ya. I ain't even reading it. There's no amount of information to justify what Israel has done. Even if Hamas was everything you want to believe they are, the embodiment of pure evil, that still wouldn't justify genocide. Just cause it's a "war" doesn't mean you can just blow up civilian buildings and shoot humanitarian workers. Bet your the kind of mindless scumbag who thinks the nukes were justified too. Targeting civilians means nothing to you.

I hope one day you could be on the receiving end of someone else's ""justified war"". Live in the shoes of a person born on the wrong side of the border. Maybe that perspective of watching your family and friends and neighbors die on a daily basis would change you.

[–] mwguy@infosec.pub 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I ain't even reading it.

Everything you need to know about your position.

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't "hear out" the reasons a Nazi has for justifying genocide. Do you? Like to sit at their table and have a chat? Listen to his drivle and morally unfounded bullshit? You sure do. But I don't listen to Nazis.

[–] mwguy@infosec.pub 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don’t “hear out” the reasons a Nazi has for justifying genocide. Do you?

Dude dunking on Nazi's is sort of what I do.

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And yet, here you are, arguing for a genocide. Calling people who recognize it as such "naive" for not understanding how justified this genocide is! Don't he know how evil that palastinian civilian population is? Don't he know that they had it coming? That they deserve it? That it's the only way to stop them? I do not care for your justifications when the thing your justifying is ideals of ethnic cleansing, apartheid and genocide. I do not care for whatever justifications you tell yourself to hide the shame that you ain't any different than a swastika wearing son of a bitch.

[–] mwguy@infosec.pub 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm arguing for a Hamas surrender. Don't know if you realized but there's a war on. What your mistaking for a genocide, is a war. A war the side you seem to support started. And a war they can end tomorrow with a surrender.

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hope one day you look back on this moment of belief and shatter.

[–] mwguy@infosec.pub 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I hope you look at it now and shatter. This support for Hamas (both fiscal and moral) coming from people like you is the #1 thing preventing the rise of a legitimate, independent Palestinian state. And the #1 empowering the poverty of the Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza.

When we in the West defacto tell Gazans, "Kill them Jews we got your back, we'll help you rebuild, we'll pressure them to allow themselves to be enslaved. You've got it so bad; it can never get worse." We're giving Gazans a false sense of security. If Gazans were black they would never receive this level of foreign support. If they weren't attempting tourser Jews, they'd never have this level of support.

According to the UN there are 195 countries in the world, including Palestine. 194 of them receive less per capita aid and commit less per capita terrorism. Gaza could easily become the Madagascar or Haiti or Chad in 6 months and be 1000x worse off than they are today.

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] mwguy@infosec.pub 0 points 2 months ago

Your war. The people you support, Hamas, started it.