After nearly seven weeks in captivity, 24 hostages seized by Hamas in its deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel are now free after crossing into Egypt. In exchange, Israel released 39 Palestinians hours later at the city of Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

  • NobodyElse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    267·
    10 months ago

    24 Hamas hostages + 39 Israeli hostages = scores of Palestinian and Israeli hostages.

    I’m just surprised that they didn’t refer to the women and children held hostage by Israel as “prisoners“ or “detainees“, while referring to those held by Hamas as “hostages”. As if there’s some benign reason to capture women and children and then use them as currency if one party does it but not the other.

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      135·
      10 months ago

      The Palestinian prisoners were not captured. They have been arrested, charged, or convicted of crimes. Most are considered minor violent offenses like throwing stones at police or soldiers.

      Edit: added "arrested, charged "

      • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        55·
        10 months ago

        But they were in captivity? Why even bring semantics into something like this?

    • livus@kbin.social
      5·
      10 months ago

      Plus we can add “10 Thai citizens and a Filipino citizen,” who are not part of the count.

      Edit, update sounds like they were part of the count. The text is still

      10 Thai citizens and a Filipino citizen," were among those released Friday and were not a part of the truce agreement.

      But earlier in the article it says they are part of the count.

      • ArtikBanana@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        41·
        10 months ago

        They are.
        13 Israeli hostages were released as part of the agreement with Israel.
        11 were released as a seperate agreement with Thailand through Egypt.

        • livus@kbin.social
          2·
          10 months ago

          Noted. Either I didn’t read it properly or the article has been updated. Thanks for the correction.