NBC News Blames Israel For Failing To Negotiate After Hostage Rescue

Do I really need to mention that all those Palestinians would still be alive if Hamas hadn’t taken hostages? If they hadn’t surrounded them with human shields? If they had let them go? If they hadn’t attacked Jews to start with on October 7th?

‘Failure of the negotiations’: Israel’s hostage rescue leads to one of the bloodiest days in the war

In Israel, the news of four hostages rescued from Gaza was met with cheering crowds and tearful scenes of reuniting families. Officials hailed the operation as miraculous and heroic, and offered a rare win for Israel’s embattled Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

But it came at the expense of hundreds of Palestinians, who suffered one of the bloodiest days in Gaza. Video filmed by an NBC News crew on the ground showed streets scattered with charred bodies, survivors gathering body parts into sacks, rescuers carrying mangled and blood-soaked children into chaotic hospitals overwhelmed with the injured.

By Sunday, joy in Israel was fading and giving way to the realities of a war that has dragged on for nine months and whose fissures and deep divisions remained largely unchanged by the rescue.

“What we saw yesterday is actually failure of the negotiations,” Yossi Mekelberg, an associate fellow with the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House, said in a phone interview with NBC News.

“Had there been a cease-fire, these hostages would already have been at home, and the civilians that were killed yesterday would be alive,” Mekelberg said.

Yes, it’s always wise to reach out to Islamists for comment. Whatever happened to “we don’t negotiate with terrorists”? If you remember, Hamas is a designated terrorist group by the US, UK, UN, and EU. No ceasefire was needed: just release them. If you’re robbing a bank and you get shot while holding hostages, that’s not on the police. That’s on you.

The destruction wrought during the rescue is unlikely to ease Israel’s isolation from an international community that has censured Israel for months over the civilian death toll in Gaza. United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese said in a statement that she was “Relieved that four hostages have been released,” but that “it should not have come at the expense of Palestinians.”

They didn’t have to support Hamas. They didn’t have to voluntarily put themselves in harm’s way by being human shields.

“Israel has used hostages to legitimize killing, injuring, maiming, starving and traumatizing Palestinians in Gaza,” she said.

Got that? It’s Israel’s fault that a designated terrorist group took hostages and surrounded them with “civilians”.

(Breitbart) The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed Sunday that all three of the male hostages rescued on Saturday were held by Abdallah Aljamal, a “journalist” who contributed to the Palestine Chronicle and Al Jazeera.

As Breitbart News reported, he was revealed to have had another job, as the spokesperson for the Hamas-run Palestinian Department of Labor in Gaza.

“Civilian”.

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