Idiots believe "media", intelligent people believe concrete evidence, of which there is none to back up the original claim.

Scenario 3, hostages freed as part of ceasefire deal: fighting stops, hostages freed.

You wouldn't think it was acceptable that "the hostages remain hostages" if they were people you cared about. Do you not see the fucking difference?

The scenario that will ultimately win is Scenario 1, the hostages will not be released and the war will continue. It'll only get worse when Trump gets into office, so sit back and enjoy existing in the calm before the storm.

Now who's putting words in other people's mouths? 😂

If you had a leg to stand on in this discussion you wouldn't resort to pathetic non sequitur.

Hamas was [supposedly] the legitimately elected government of the Gaza Strip. To think that they could go on a murderous rampage (in which they killed more people in a single day than the Israelis have in any day since then, by the way), take hostages back into Gaza, hide behind innocent women and children like the worthless pathetic Islamist terrorist cowards that they are, and not face the direct consequences of their actions, is a joke.

I guess when you worship a pedophile who spread his ideology through violent genocide (including in historical Gaza), logic and consequence isn't your strong point.

Still, I don't understand why you are so dramatically opposed to the idea of releasing the hostages? What's in it for you that these people are needlessly tortured? Do you think it helps offset the harm against the innocent Gazans?

You keep posting these propaganda images every day, is it your job or just a hobby?

At any rate, all your image shows is that there was never a Palestinian nation state to begin with. So again, the question remains "what makes it Palestinian land in the first place?"

By your own admission, this region (home to both the original Israelites, Judea, Hebrews, Philistines, and dozens of other nomadic tribes) has been passed around by empire to empire for thousands of years.

It's cynical and frankly fucking disgusting that you view human lives as nothing more than numbers.

Is this just numbers to you? Is that how you quantify the value of human life?

If so, you are beyond help and reasoning.

Nothing can be done for the thousands of people on both sides of this conflict who have been tragically killed in a pointless war, but that does no mean that the people who can be saved right now, today, shouldn't be. I want the immediate release of the hostages, because 1 innocent person taken hostage and tortured for months in an injustice to people everywhere. I want a ceasefire because 1 innocent person killed in a pointless holy war is an injustice to people everywhere.

The real question, and the one to which I can only guess your disgusting answer, is why you don't...

Return the bodies then.

Frankly I hope that they are dead, because the idea of living in a dungeon under Gaza being raped and tortured every day for 13 months is horrific.

And if Hamas has lost track of even the hostages bodies then I don't envy them, because it seems that they've lost what little bargaining position they once had. Uh oh for them.

Well in that case I guess you'll be glad to know that a one-state solution seems to be on the horizon--where Israel is the one state that controls the region.

Not my preference, but I don't make the rules.