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DO BEN-GVIR, BEZALEL AND BIBI GIVE A HOOT ABOUT THE WELFARE OF HOSTAGES?
Israel confirms deaths of four more hostages, including three older men who appeared in video
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The Israeli military on Monday confirmed the deaths of four more hostages held by Hamas – including three older men seen in a Hamas video begging for their release.
The three men, Amiram Cooper, Yoram Metzger and Haim Peri, were all age 80 or older. Looking weak and wary, they appeared in a video in December released by Hamas under the title, “Don’t let us grow old here.”
The fourth hostage was identified as Nadav Popplewell.
Israel’s military spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said the four men died together in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis when Israel was operating there. The cause of death was not immediately known.
“We are checking all of the options,” Hagari said. “There are a lot of questions.”
Israel carried out a major offensive in Khan Younis, a Hamas stronghold, early this year.
Hamas claimed in May that Popplewell had died after being wounded in an Israeli air strike, but provided no evidence.
Cooper, Metzger and Peri were featured in a Hamas propaganda video in which Peri, clearly under duress, said in the video that all three men had chronic illnesses and accused Israel of abandoning them.
The deaths added to the growing list of hostages who Israel says have died in captivity. On Oct. 7, Hamas took some 250 hostages back to Gaza. Roughly half were released during a brief ceasefire period in November. Of some 130 remaining in the strip, about 85 are believed to still be alive. That’s as Israeli leadership brushes aside a Biden proposal to end the war and initiate another hostages-for-prisoners exchange.
Also, an Israeli who went missing during the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas-led Palestinian gunmen and was presumed to have been taken hostage has been found dead in the border village where he lived, Israeli media said on Monday.
After what it described as lengthy forensics, Israel’s military confirmed the identification of the remains of Dolev Yehoud, whose surname has also been spelled Yehud in English.
A military statement said Yehoud, a 35-year-old volunteer medic, was among dozens of residents of Kibbutz Nir Oz killed in the Oct. 7 rampage in which many homes burned to the ground.
Dozens of other residents were taken by Hamas into captivity in the neighbouring Hamas-run Gaza Strip. Among those was Yehoud’s sister, Arbel, 28, the family said.
Nine days after the attack, Yehoud’s wife gave birth to their fourth child.
The Hamas-led rampage, in which Israel said about 1,200 people were killed in southern Israeli communities, triggered an Israeli offensive in Gaza to try to eliminate the Islamist militant group.
DO BEN-GVIR, BEZALEL AND BIBI GIVE A HOOT ABOUT THE WELFARE OF HOSTAGES?
Israel confirms deaths of four more hostages, including three older men who appeared in video
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Placards with photos of hostages kidnapped in the deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas hang amidst the debris of burnt houses in Kibbutz Nir Oz, southern Israel, on March 12.CARLOS GARCIA RAWLINS/REUTERS
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The Israeli military on Monday confirmed the deaths of four more hostages held by Hamas – including three older men seen in a Hamas video begging for their release.
The three men, Amiram Cooper, Yoram Metzger and Haim Peri, were all age 80 or older. Looking weak and wary, they appeared in a video in December released by Hamas under the title, “Don’t let us grow old here.”
The fourth hostage was identified as Nadav Popplewell.
Israel’s military spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said the four men died together in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis when Israel was operating there. The cause of death was not immediately known.
“We are checking all of the options,” Hagari said. “There are a lot of questions.”
Israel carried out a major offensive in Khan Younis, a Hamas stronghold, early this year.
Hamas claimed in May that Popplewell had died after being wounded in an Israeli air strike, but provided no evidence.
Cooper, Metzger and Peri were featured in a Hamas propaganda video in which Peri, clearly under duress, said in the video that all three men had chronic illnesses and accused Israel of abandoning them.
The deaths added to the growing list of hostages who Israel says have died in captivity. On Oct. 7, Hamas took some 250 hostages back to Gaza. Roughly half were released during a brief ceasefire period in November. Of some 130 remaining in the strip, about 85 are believed to still be alive. That’s as Israeli leadership brushes aside a Biden proposal to end the war and initiate another hostages-for-prisoners exchange.
Also, an Israeli who went missing during the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas-led Palestinian gunmen and was presumed to have been taken hostage has been found dead in the border village where he lived, Israeli media said on Monday.
After what it described as lengthy forensics, Israel’s military confirmed the identification of the remains of Dolev Yehoud, whose surname has also been spelled Yehud in English.
A military statement said Yehoud, a 35-year-old volunteer medic, was among dozens of residents of Kibbutz Nir Oz killed in the Oct. 7 rampage in which many homes burned to the ground.
Dozens of other residents were taken by Hamas into captivity in the neighbouring Hamas-run Gaza Strip. Among those was Yehoud’s sister, Arbel, 28, the family said.
Nine days after the attack, Yehoud’s wife gave birth to their fourth child.
The Hamas-led rampage, in which Israel said about 1,200 people were killed in southern Israeli communities, triggered an Israeli offensive in Gaza to try to eliminate the Islamist militant group.
AND TOMORROW IN JERUSALEM
‘If this explodes, it’s regional war’: far-right Flag March puts Jerusalem on edge
Annual event make will make Wednesday one of the most tense days in Israel since the Gaza war began
Israelis wave flags near the Damascus gate of Jerusalem's Old City, during the disputed Flag March in 2022. EPA
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“Flag March is an abomination,” says Daniel Seidemann, a lawyer who has spent his life studying Jerusalem and its role at the heart of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
He is deeply worried about Wednesday, when tens of thousands of Israelis will join the ultranationalist march through the most sensitive district of the city as part of events for Jerusalem Day, which commemorates Israel's full capture of the city in 1967.
“Every year it’s an abomination: the shouts of abuse, the raging through Al Wad Street, far-right Israelis pounding on doors behind which Palestinians are cowering,” Mr Seidemann adds.
“The police announcing they won’t do anything in response to chants, which include ‘death to Arabs’ and ‘may your villages burn’ and not one public figure in Israel condemning them.”
Mr Seidemann is speaking to The National the day before this year’s Flag March, which traditionally goes through the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City.
The route passes Al Aqsa Mosque – the third holiest site in Islam that many of the marchers want to replace with a third Jewish temple.
The event always causes extreme tension, not only for Palestinians but for people across the Middle East.
In 2021, tensions over the Flag March helped spark 11 days of fighting between Israel and Hamas.
This year it comes after nearly eight months of a far worse conflict in Gaza which has also dragged the occupied West Bank to the brink of explosion and pushed Israel and Hezbollah to the verge of war.
Jerusalem has stayed relatively calm, at least in comparison with the violence of these other arenas.
But there is a chance the tomorrow's march might change that. If it does, the ramifications would be huge, Mr Seidemann says.
“This year is special circumstances. If I was asked to evaluate what the odds are of violence in Jerusalem, I would say it’s gone from 4 per cent to 8 per cent, so it likely won’t explode, but it’s far from impossible,” he says.
“If it does explode, that’s a regional war.”
Sami Abu Shehadeh, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and chairman of the opposition party Balad, says Jerusalem Day is “the most racist day on the Israeli calendar, because it touches the most sacred and sensitive issue for Palestinians: Al Aqsa Mosque”.
He believes far-right politicians in the current government, particularly National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, want the day to spark a regional war.
“Ben Gvir is a pyromaniac and a very dangerous man for Israelis, Palestinians and the Middle East,” Mr Abu Shehadeh says.
Mr Ben Gvir vowed in an interview on Tuesday morning to go to the Al Aqsa compound on Jerusalem Day.
“I wish Itamar Ben Gvir was the only issue: a racist, crazy, pyromaniac. The problem is he’s a minister in the Israeli government, within which you don’t find anyone attacking his dangerous, racist behaviour,” Mr Abu Shehadeh says.
“It gives you a feeling that there is a consensus on racism and provocation.”
Mr Ben Gvir might be the politician most closely associated with the Flag March, but both Mr Seidemann and Mr Abu Shehadeh lay blame for the risk it poses at the feet of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“The decision of whether Ben Gvir is to go to Al Aqsa tomorrow is not his, it’s Netanyahu’s,” Mr Seidemann says.
“This is not something that any responsible government would allow to happen under these circumstances.”
Mr Seidemann stresses that Jerusalem has weathered other tense moments since the latest Gaza war began on October 7.
“There was another far-right march that was supposed to take place in December, but under high-level international pressure was cancelled. There was Ramadan, but that was kept calm. There are any number of dangerous episodes that have taken place. This is one of the more serious ones.”
Mr Abu Shehadeh feels that events have reached a point where the Flag March is unlikely to make things worse.
“There is nothing uniquely worse about Flag March. Terrible things have been happening every day since October 7. Not just in terms of war crimes in Gaza but all over the West Bank and Jerusalem. Palestinians are being killed daily. So I don’t expect tomorrow to be worse – the situation is already bad enough.”
Israel's police said they would deploy more than 3,000 officers for the march and that they “will act decisively against any attempt to disrupt order and law”.
Updated: June 04, 2024, 1:15 PM
ISRAELJERUSALEMAL AQSA MOSQUE
I'd be racist too if some people wanted to wipe my country off the face of the earth
So is Palestine and every Arab country that surrounds Israel.
And Israel is not racist, they are Islamophobic
LMAO. All they want is freedom and justice??
Dont make me laugh, bro
What do you think "From the river to the sea" means??!!
BTW @Kautilya you missed the most important part of the video. A black guy from SA claimed he was treated as a slave.
If they treat black guys like that, imagine how they treat Jews.
Here is the video again: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMreTHtFx/
If they treat black guys like that, imagine how they treat Jews.
Here is the video again: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMreTHtFx/
Israel is a "racist hellhole of a state"??
Tell me please, how does Hamas (and muslims in general) treat women and members of the LGBT community??
ThickSo is Palestine and every Arab country that surrounds Israel.
And Israel is not racist, they are Islamophobic
LMAO. All they want is freedom and justice??
Dont make me laugh, bro
What do you think "From the river to the sea" means??!!
This is not about me though. Its about Hamas, a group you support and who treat their women and LGBT people like shit.
So in a way that makes you no better than me, or at least the way you perceive me (which is wrong btw).
I do not support oppressing gays or throwing transgenders off of rooftops, you do support that group however
The way that Muslim countries treat their women is the purest form of apartheid currently occurring in the world. Compared to men they are 2nd class citizens. Their schooling is restricted, they are told how to dress, women are sexually abused/raped and in some countries aren't allowed to drive etc., etc., etc. Geno and the rest of our resident KKK support this, just as they support the discrimination, persecution and criminalization of gays.
