Israel has told many lies about these hostages and POW’s:
All female hostages were sexually assaulted.
That’s false. There’s no evidence for that.
There was a report that one captor had tried to sexually assault a hostage (I’m not even sure what that means), but he was not successful and afterwards, he apologized to her. This sounds credible to me.
Some hostages reported horrible treatment. I suppose it’s possible but most others said they had been treated well. It makes no sense that almost all hostages would be treated well but others would be treated terribly.
Mohammad Deif gave a specific order three days after the 10-7 attack to treat the hostages well in accordance with Islamic law.
Tied treatment of hostages in with the “Hamas is using hospitals as bases” lie.
There is indeed footage of Hamas taking a hostage into one of the hospitals. I’ve seen the footage. This doesn’t look good for Israel, so Israel took that footage and said that the hostage being brought there showed Hamas wa…
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