Dante
"The Libido for the Ugly"
Say it ain't so Muhammad, say it ain't so. This is what real urban warfare and battles for national identity, secure borders, occupations, and legal/illegal taking for settlements looks like. It's ugly, but it's real. Hostage guards, using the apartments of sympathetic families. Who is a civilian? Who is a terrorist? Who is a freedom fighter? Who is caught up in a shit storm they'd rather not be a part of?
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They were rescued from the apartment, a low-rise concrete residence like the ones where many Gazan families live, on June 8 during an audacious and deadly Israeli commando operation.
Afterward, the Israeli authorities identified the hostages’ main jailer as Abdallah Aljamal, 36, a Hamas operative who moonlighted as a journalist — or vice versa. It was a rare instance of the Israeli security services publicly identifying a kidnapper.
Mr. Aljamal, the one referred to as “Chubby Cheeks,” was writing regular dispatches for The Palestine Chronicle, a U.S.-based online publication, about the war’s terrible human toll on Gazans, as he was holding three kidnapped Israelis at gunpoint in his family’s apartment.
Mr. Kozlov has since identified Mr. Aljamal and several other captors from their photographs posted online and on social media.
All three men were kidnapped from the Nova music festival during the Hamas-led terrorist assault of Oct. 7 on southern Israel. About 250 people were abducted and taken to the Gaza Strip that day, according to Israeli officials.
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They were rescued from the apartment, a low-rise concrete residence like the ones where many Gazan families live, on June 8 during an audacious and deadly Israeli commando operation.
Afterward, the Israeli authorities identified the hostages’ main jailer as Abdallah Aljamal, 36, a Hamas operative who moonlighted as a journalist — or vice versa. It was a rare instance of the Israeli security services publicly identifying a kidnapper.
Mr. Aljamal, the one referred to as “Chubby Cheeks,” was writing regular dispatches for The Palestine Chronicle, a U.S.-based online publication, about the war’s terrible human toll on Gazans, as he was holding three kidnapped Israelis at gunpoint in his family’s apartment.
Mr. Kozlov has since identified Mr. Aljamal and several other captors from their photographs posted online and on social media.
All three men were kidnapped from the Nova music festival during the Hamas-led terrorist assault of Oct. 7 on southern Israel. About 250 people were abducted and taken to the Gaza Strip that day, according to Israeli officials.
Rescued Hostage Describes Months of Uncertainty and Terror in Gaza
Andrey Kozlov was kept for six months in a family’s apartment by a Hamas operative who moonlighted as a journalist. Then Israeli commandos stormed in.
