Posted on 06/09/2024 7:32:57 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
n 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.
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.”
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Hostages “released?”
NBC at its hideous and grotesque best.
WTH ISN'T there negotiations going on with the US leading the way......here AND in UKRAINE AND RUSSIA??
Terrorists use their bodies as ammo. Nothing new.
Blame Hamas. Stop normalizing terror.
Those 200 Palis would still be alive if they had released their kidnapped hostages peacefully.
These are A-rab reporters. How do we know WHERE that video footage came from. That could be archived video from Desert Storm or ANYWHERE. These are camel jockeys doing the reporting. I don’t believe one second of it.
It turned into a Blackhawk Down situation. The mob came in. The mob found out.
Go IDF. Eliminate the Sand Klan. Sub-humans. Unfit for human society by choice.
IF NBC is mad, you are on target.
They were held in ‘Refugee’ camps.
They’ve completely forgotten who started this war.
“NBC at its hideous and grotesque best.”
Totally expected.
I’m sure the other alphabet soup propaganda organs will follow suit.
Almost as questionable as leftard run media in the US.
They know. They’re just pathological liars. Just pleasing their dark lord.
Are you talking about Gaza Arabs? There are no civilians among them. The best you can say for them is that they made a poor choice of companions.
There will never be a real peace in the region. As long as Israel and Palestine exist as political entities, both lay claim to the same land and neither will consent to live under the dominion of the other. There may be peaceful interludes but the violence, death and destruction will continue until one or the other ceases to exist. Sorry but there is no real solution. Decent, rational people have to choose a side and live with the consequences.
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