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.
But they were in captivity? Why even bring semantics into something like this?
They were arrested and jailed. The article should have done a better job not equating people convicted of crimes with people abducted from their homes as their families and neighbors were being murdered by a terrorist junta.
I’m guessing the author is trying to “represent both sides equally.”
Nelson Mandela was also arrested and jailed by an Apartheid state.
We have no way to know if these people actually did anything wrong.
There should be a presumption of innocence.
as a disclaimer, i don’t think i really know enough about the situation to comment on it holistically
that said, if a state wants to find a justification to convict somebody, it can find it
i don’t think that, in a war between two states, trusting what an instrument of one state says about an instrument of another is justification by itself