US Believes Only 20 Hostages Still Alive in Gaza

[JGalt]

It doesn't look like Hamas has much to bargain with any more, the "all hell" breaking loose incoming President Trump promised in the Middle East is almost a certainty.

US Believes Only 20 Hostages Still Alive in Gaza​

"Multiple intelligence and security sources at the highest levels of the U.S. and Israel confirm that authorities believe only about 20 of the 251 hostages taken alive by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, remain alive.

One U.S. government source said that 20 is the "working number" of those believed to be alive in ongoing negotiations underway in Qatar between Israel and Hamas.

The figure of 20 is approximate and includes only civilians and female Israeli soldiers taken prisoner.

"If the number included Israeli male soldiers, it could go higher," one senior Israeli source told Newsmax, but suggested it would not be a large increase."

https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/israel-gaza-hamas/2025/01/07/id/1194241/

 

[Meister]

I heard just today that two dead hostages have been recovered.

 

[ESay]

Outrageous. 20 out of more than 200. Wasn’t liberation of the hostages one of the main missions of Israeli military campaign in Gaza?

 

[Deadstick]

Well after all that frenzied bombing is it any wonder?

 

[ShahdagMountains]

It doesn't look like Hamas has much to bargain with any more, the "all hell" breaking loose incoming President Trump promised in the Middle East is almost a certainty.

US Believes Only 20 Hostages Still Alive in Gaza​

"Multiple intelligence and security sources at the highest levels of the U.S. and Israel confirm that authorities believe only about 20 of the 251 hostages taken alive by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, remain alive.

One U.S. government source said that 20 is the "working number" of those believed to be alive in ongoing negotiations underway in Qatar between Israel and Hamas.

The figure of 20 is approximate and includes only civilians and female Israeli soldiers taken prisoner.

"If the number included Israeli male soldiers, it could go higher," one senior Israeli source told Newsmax, but suggested it would not be a large increase."

https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/israel-gaza-hamas/2025/01/07/id/1194241/

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It’s coming out that it’s not only Hamas that are holding the hostages. There are other terrorist groups involved, such as lslamic Jihad.
Which makes the negotiations more complicated.

 

[Deadstick]

It’s coming out that it’s not only Hamas that are holding the hostages. There are other terrorist groups involved, such as lslamic Jihad.
Which makes the negotiations more complicated.

I am surprised any are still alive with the amount of US explosives the IDF child killers have dropped on Gaza.

 

[gipper]

I am surprised any are still alive with the amount of US explosives the IDF child killers have dropped on Gaza.

Agreed.

The fact that many hostages were not killed by IDF’s indiscriminate bombing campaign, might also indicate they killed few Hamas fighters. They certainly were successful in murdering thousands of women and children, while destroying most of Gaza. Maybe that was their intention.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

I am surprised any are still alive with the amount of US explosives the IDF child killers have dropped on Gaza.

I don’t care if you are surprised or not. Your hysterical rantings notwithstanding, you could save yourself and the rest of us, a lot of time and energy if you just admitted you harbour a rabid hatred of Jews; and leave it at that.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Agreed.

The fact that many hostages were not killed by IDF’s indiscriminate bombing campaign, might also indicate they killed few Hamas fighters. They certainly were successful in murdering thousands of women and children, while destroying most of Gaza. Maybe that was their intention.

I wonder where the thousands who made up the barbaric mob who surrounded the terrified female hostage en route to the Red Cross vehicles, came from. Or according to your calculations, they were the walking dead?

 

[Deadstick]

I don’t care if you are surprised or not. Your hysterical rantings notwithstanding, you could save yourself and the rest of us, a lot of time and energy if you just admitted you harbour a rabid hatred of Jews; and leave it at that.

Why would i do that you arsehole when it isn't true? your attacks on anyone speaking against Israeli atrocities calling them antisemitic doesn't work anymore because people are waking up to their lies, one of the Palestinians released after only a month in jail looks like this.

 

[Deadstick]

Agreed.

The fact that many hostages were not killed by IDF’s indiscriminate bombing campaign, might also indicate they killed few Hamas fighters. They certainly were successful in murdering thousands of women and children, while destroying most of Gaza. Maybe that was their intention.

They don't care about the hostages they are worth more dead than alive to the Zionist madmen.

 

[Deadstick]

More IDF abuse of prisoners, it's more like Dachau than a prison.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Why would i do that you arsehole when it isn't true? your attacks on anyone speaking against Israeli atrocities calling them antisemitic doesn't work anymore because people are waking up to their lies, one of the Palestinians released after only a month in jail looks like this.

I don’t know you, and you don’t know me. So why do you make it so personal? Do you feel safer hiding behind the anonymity of cyber space?

 

[gipper]

They don't care about the hostages they are worth more dead than alive to the Zionist madmen.

Yeah they implement the Hannibal Directive, killing their own people, then blame it all on the Palestinians.

Then, dumb Americans believe their lies. I wonder how many still believe the 40 beheaded babies story.

It’s a win-win for the Zionist.

 

[Deadstick]

Another victim of Zionist SS thugs, this guy was a body builder he looked like he had just come out of Sachsenhausen when released, many others have been held for years even decades, this man had only been in prison 9 months God knows what he went through, the ICC if it's worth anything should indict the Commandant of that prison.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/amid-ceasefire-push-palestinians-released-israeli-jails-bear-mental-physical-2024-12-31/

 

[gipper]

I don’t care if you are surprised or not. Your hysterical rantings notwithstanding, you could save yourself and the rest of us, a lot of time and energy if you just admitted you harbour a rabid hatred of Jews; and leave it at that.

Are you yet another idiot who thinks opposing Israel’s genocide means one is antisemitic?

Have you shagged Lisa yet?

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Are you yet another idiot who thinks opposing Israel’s genocide means one is antisemitic?

Have you shagged Lisa yet?

 

[gipper]

Another victim of Zionist SS thugs, this guy was a body builder he looked like he had just come out of Sachsenhausen when released, many others have been held for years even decades, the ICC if it's worth anything should indict the Commandant of that prison.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/amid-ceasefire-push-palestinians-released-israeli-jails-bear-mental-physical-2024-12-31/

I wonder if the genociders here ever ask themselves how those head cutting Hamas savages release hostages that are obviously happy and healthy, and compare that to those released by the Zionist apartheid regime.

Summary

• Palestinian detainees describe beatings, hunger, loud music in Israeli prisons
• Bodybuilder emerges from detention emaciated, diagnosed with PTSD, then rearrested
• Israeli military denies systematic abuse, investigates specific cases
• Some 6,000 Gazans detained over course of war, Israeli military says

 

[gipper]

I’ll add you to my list of genociders.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

I’ll add you to my list of genociders.

Want me to care about that?