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.

  • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    66·
    1 year ago

    But they were in captivity? Why even bring semantics into something like this?

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      157·
      1 year ago

      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.”

      • alvvayson@lemmy.worldEnglish
        109·
        1 year ago

        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.