Hamas has indicated it is currently unable to identify and track down 40 Israeli hostages needed for the first phase of a ceasefire deal, according to an Israeli official and a source familiar with the discussions, raising fears that more hostages may be dead than are publicly known.
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    According to Israel’s own figures,

    But not according to anyone else’s…

    Israel has been flattening the entire area, they can’t keep track of how many they kill, regardless of what country they’re from.

    But the article OP linked even says there aren’t 40 noncombatants left…

    CNN’s record of the conditions of the hostages also suggests there are fewer than 40 living hostages who meet the proposed criteria.

    I’m not sure what you’re not understanding about this.

    Or why you’re listening to Israel still

    • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
      83·
      9 months ago

      But the article OP linked even says there aren’t 40 noncombatants left…

      Right, I acknowledged that. It’s just that no one knows who specifically is counted in the alive vs dead hostage statistics. It wouldn’t surprise me if Israel purposefully set a number of civilians that they knew had likely already died, knowing that Hamas would not be able to comply with the request, to justify continuing the conflict.