On October 7th, Maayan Idan was shot to death by Hamas and died in her father's arms. Hamas livestreamed these horrors from her mother’s Facebook page on her phone. Hamas then kidnapped Maayan’s dad, Tsahi, and murdered him in Gaza. Tonight, he returns to Israel in a coffin.
🚨 Breaking: Forensic evidence confirms that both Kfir and Ariel Bibas were first choked to death by Palestinians with bare hands. Their bodies were then mutilated with rocks to simulate death by bombardment.
Information released with permission of their father, Yarden Bibas.
I can take a stab at this, if I may.
It seems that many on both sides are not too fond of the idea of peace, but not for the same reasons.
The Palestinians who are disinterested in peace are against it because they reject an Israeli state. The Israelis who are disinterested in peace believe the Palestinians do not want peace with them, precisely because they reject an Israeli state. This makes them fear acceptance of peace treaties that are later violated in the perennial pursuit for the destruction of Israel. (Caveat: some far-right Israelis, regardless of circumstances, don’t want peace with Palestinians in any capacity at any time, but they statistically represent a very small percentage).
So to cure this mutual disinterest in peace, it would seem that a widespread Palestinian acceptance of the state of Israel and a commitment to living alongside them in harmony would effectuate in Israeli’s a mutual desire for peace, no longer fearing that peace is just a temporary ruse before a future attack, but a genuine acceptance of two states.
What do you think?
Zaka search and rescue volunteers, tasked with retrieving bodies in Israel, describe what they say after the Hamas attack.
They entered a family’s house. 2 children aged 6-7.
Parents and children tortured. Eyes gauged out. Fingers cut off
Never forget!
More horrifying details about the October 7 Massacre:
▪️ Pathologists are having to peel apart charred remains of parents and children cremated alive while hugging
▪️As of yesterday, there were 297 bodies so hideously brutalised as to be unrecognisable to anyone
▪️ Some Israeli victims were incinerated so badly that literally all that is left is a few fragments of bone - there is no body to bury
▪️ Hamas handcuffed people behind their backs and executed them
▪️Multiple eyewitnesses saw decapitated babies
And brace for it:
▪️There will be some victims of Hamas death squads that forensic experts will simply never identify
"The charred remains were so disfigured that at first they did not realise it was two people. But when pathologists gently began to examine, they could see the bodies were those of an adult and a child. And they were hugging tightly."
Don't look away.
https://t.co/dPjWgvi9Gc
Adi Vital-Kaploun’s last moments on earth were pure horror. Hamas gunmen were in her house and they had captured her two little boys.
Adi, an Israeli and Canadian citizen, was shot in front of her two sons, four-year-old Negev and 4½-month-old Eshel.
The family was told that her body was then shoved under Negev’s bed and booby-trapped so it would explode when someone tried to pull her out.
Hamas committed monstrous crimes. May they rot in hell.
https://t.co/VHR90N2tZE
To the feminists: Hamas ripped open a pregnant Israeli woman’s stomach, killed the fetus and then killed the mother. Hamas raped women and girls, mutilated their bodies, and then shot them. Hamas is holding 200 civilians captive – mostly girls and women – and doing God knows what to them.
If you can’t find your voice in this moment to denounce Hamas, you have failed and shame on you.
Ruth Peretz and her father, Arik.
Ruth is a 16-years-old Israeli with cerebral palsy who loves music. She and her father were last seen at the desert music festival that was attacked by Hamas.
In footage, Arik was seen carrying his daughter with Hamas terrorists chasing them down. Both are now being held hostage in Gaza.
Ruth has urgent medical needs. It is an act of monstrous barbarity to hold this girl hostage.
Share their story and demand that #HamasFreeTheHostages