I imagine that the hostages’ lives are forfeited already. Probably it’s best to write them off and proceed to the final stages of this campaign.
There are no good options when dealing with deranged terrorists except to make their demise as painful on them as possible in the hope that it will deter the next bunch.
At the DailyMail site there was another article with the title “Two Hostages Found by IDF.”
Both were dead.
The media seems to have a strange sense of glee at this loss of life. Its war, Israelis will mourn the loss but not whine with some false sense of victimhood.. I was surprised to read that only 18% of Gazas infrastructure was destroyed. Maybe time to crank it up to 50%.
Hard to do unless you kill their entire family, neighbors, their chickens, dogs, etc. You have to wipe out the next of vipers to the last. Nits make lice.
>> There are no good options when dealing with deranged terrorists except to make their demise as painful on them as possible in the hope that it will deter the next bunch.
That’s an acceptable criterion for success, but even better would be to utterly wipe out every Hamas member and supporter, at whatever cost in “collateral damage” is required. So that zero terrorists remain to be deterred.