Suella Braverman.

[westcountryvillain]

Spot on Omegastrat - for me the narrative needs to move straight to a call for peace in Palestine, unfortunately some are too blinded by their own bigotry & hate to even contemplate talking to their enemies, but it has to happen to move forward.

Hamas are reported as having access to their own fuel, not allowing civilians to leave and willing to see them die to paint Israel as the aggressor. If Hamas has over 200 hostages how does Israel know the areas not to bomb, the only answer is they know where they are already? More human shields?

[Omegstrat6]

Spot on Omegastrat - for me the narrative needs to move straight to a call for peace in Palestine, unfortunately some are too blinded by their own bigotry & hate to even contemplate talking to their enemies, but it has to happen to move forward.

Hamas are reported as having access to their own fuel, not allowing civilians to leave and willing to see them die to paint Israel as the aggressor. If Hamas has over 200 hostages how does Israel know the areas not to bomb, the only answer is they know where they are already? More human shields?

Good point. They are called "hostages" but, to my knowledge, no ransom style "give us x and we'll release them" demands have been made so I can only assume that they are being used as human shields to protect the Hamas leadership or to use as bargaining chips in exchange for the leadership's own lives should the IDF get that close to them. Small wonder distraught relatives are angry at their government for not doing enough-but then how much, in reality, does Israeli intelligence know exactly about the hostages or their whereabouts?

Both Hamas and Israel will endeavour to put their own spin on things but whatever Hamas's end game in all this is, it certainly is not about protecting Palestinian lives in Gaza.