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State Dept: Hamas refuses to release women hostages to prevent sharing horrors of captivity
Fox News ^ | December 5, 2023 | Anders Hagstrom

Posted on 12/05/2023 9:40:33 AM PST by george76

Israel says 18 female hostages remain in Gaza, most of whom were taken from a music festival.

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Hamas is refusing to release its remaining female hostages is to prevent them from revealing the horrors they experienced in captivity.

Israeli officials believe Hamas still has roughly 18 women in custody, most of whom were kidnapped from an Oct. 7 music festival near the Gaza border,

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Matthew Miller says that Hamas' refusal to release the women led to the collapse of the cease-fire on Friday.

"It seems that one of the reasons they don't want to turn women over that they've been holding hostage — and the reason this pause fell apart — is that they don't want these women to be able to talk about what happened to them during their time in custody

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Among the war crimes and the crimes against humanity that Hamas committed on Oct. 7 were also sexual crimes, sexual assaults, rapes, that were part, that were a systematic part of their attack, of the massacre, and

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there is no justification for using the bodies of women as a weapon of war. None of this came up until now."

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Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., faced similar backlash this week when she joined CNN on Sunday for an interview and was asked about the silence from progressive women's groups on Hamas' use of rape as a weapon of war. Jayapal, who chairs the left-wing Congressional Progressive Caucus, claimed she did condemn Hamas' treatment of women specifically, but argued that "we have to be balanced about bringing in the outrages against Palestinians."

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Germany; Hamas; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Washington; War; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: feminists; jayapal; pramila; pramilajayapal; progressive; progressivecaucus; progressives; progressivewomen; womensgroups
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1 posted on 12/05/2023 9:40:33 AM PST by george76
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Evil bastards would rather allow civilians to die than be exposed for the sadistic bastards they are.


2 posted on 12/05/2023 9:42:13 AM PST by vpintheak (There is no Trans. There is only mentally ill)
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This could be propaganda, but if it is, it is “good” propaganda, because it would pressure Hama to release the women it current holds.


3 posted on 12/05/2023 9:42:25 AM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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Feminists are hypocrites. Just as they didn’t condemn bill clinton for sexually harassing monica lewinsky in the oval office, they aren’t condemning subhuman savages for raping, torturing and murdering women.


4 posted on 12/05/2023 9:43:14 AM PST by I want the USA back (Democracy dies when you take away from those who work and give to those who won't. Khrushchev.)
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The Squaws say gang rape is justified against Jewish women.


5 posted on 12/05/2023 9:44:38 AM PST by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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Hamas has certainly documented and shared plenty of the horrors inflicted on women. Now one of the reasons why talks broke down is that Hamas started trying to include dead bodies on the lists to trade for living Palestinians.


6 posted on 12/05/2023 9:47:13 AM PST by BlackAdderess (I might as well be a cat, for all my congressman listens to me. Meow!)
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As expected and, interestingly, these reports are coming out now shortly after the released woman defiantly refused to thank her captors as she went to her family and scowled for the cameras . . . showing her extreme "displeasure" with being in captivity.

I think she was begging for the media to pay attention to her and . . . well . . . I guess enough did.

7 posted on 12/05/2023 9:49:24 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true . . . . . I have no proof, but they're true !)
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OK. Who didn’t see this as a problem. They can’t release them, then the world will know the truth.

They will kill these women, you can count on it, and they will blame someone else.


8 posted on 12/05/2023 9:56:08 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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Does anyone know if they are still alive?


9 posted on 12/05/2023 10:02:05 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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"But getting Hamas paid is our top priority, along with our global partner Iran."

-John Kirby, Biden State Department.

10 posted on 12/05/2023 10:04:05 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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These women are already dead.


11 posted on 12/05/2023 10:05:38 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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They’re already dead.

Act accordingly.

L


12 posted on 12/05/2023 10:07:59 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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I read an account by an American reporter that saw actual footage in the last few days. The things he described happening to women after being raped are horrific - and he was trying to not be horrific.

If something like that happened to my daughter, I would either drink myself to death, or make it my life’s mission to destroy people like them - and not legally.


13 posted on 12/05/2023 10:11:31 AM PST by laxcoach (The secret to happiness is a bait pen full of pinfish.)
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“Hamas is refusing to release its remaining female hostages is to prevent them from revealing the horrors they experienced in captivity.”

What if we (those of us who honestly condemn hamas as bloodthirsty animals) can assure them our opinion of them will never get any worse. Could you release them then?


14 posted on 12/05/2023 10:12:31 AM PST by bluescape
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“...”we have to be balanced about bringing in the outrages against Palestinians....”

Seriously?? THAT coming from a woman?


15 posted on 12/05/2023 10:13:07 AM PST by SMARTY ("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
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Exactly.


16 posted on 12/05/2023 10:15:07 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging.It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: Pete Dovgan

Bank on it, they won’t release the hostages because of what has been done to them so far

These animals do not want a single living woman to openly attest to what has been done


17 posted on 12/05/2023 10:15:35 AM PST by SMARTY ("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
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To: Fido969

It is not propaganda. Is there any doubt what these animals have done to these women?


18 posted on 12/05/2023 10:23:40 AM PST by gibsonguy
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"we have to be balanced about bringing in the outrages against Palestinians." - Congressterrorist Jayapal (D-Hamas)

You did that kind of garbage to my women, there wouldn't be any Palestinivermin left to pearl-clutch about.

19 posted on 12/05/2023 10:28:39 AM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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CAIR is not amused.


20 posted on 12/05/2023 10:29:22 AM PST by Ford4000
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