Ghazi Hamada highranking member of Hamas, in an interview with the American television channel CBS News this Thursday the 30th, showed indifference to the number of Israeli hostages still alive.
When asked about the number of hostages still held by the group, Hamad replied: “I don’t know. The number isn’t that important.” The statement came shortly before the end of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
Among the hostages named are Kfir Bibas, a tenmonthold baby, and his fouryearold brother Ariel. Hamad justified the kidnapping of children as a means of pressure about the Israeli government.
Hamas also recently announced that Kfir, Ariel and their mother Shiri were killed following their abduction on October 7. As part of a psychological warfare strategy, the group released a video of Shiri’s husband. Israel Defense Forces have not yet confirmed the deaths. According to Hamad, the Bibas family was massacred because of the “occupation.”
Hamas also tortured captured Israeli children. One of the tactics was to mark the hostages with burns and stick their legs in hot motorcycle exhaust pipes so that they could be identified later in the event of an escape. The practice brings back some of the worst memories of the Holocaust.
Brazilian diplomacy is moving closer to global authoritarian regimes by creating unwarranted equivalences between the conflicting parties. Celso Amorim, a former foreign minister, has already expressed his appreciation for Hamas in a book.
The antagonist Stresses from the outset of reporting on the October 7 massacre that the confusion of Hamas terrorists with innocent Palestinians must stop; that the former does not represent the latter, which was not only pointed out in research but also recognized by Mahmoud Abbas; and that Hamas is actually using Palestinian civilians as human shields.