Israel confirms four dead hostages who will be returned from Gaza include young family

Kidnapping a baby, and a toddler. and their mother, and then keeping the three as hostages, abusing and torturing them, and then murdering them – is beyond Satanism.

Absolutely barbaric! Just heartbreaking!

Sad indeed,

Hamas should have NEVER touched these four nor any others, these is a stain on Hamas than can never be removed.

"" Hamas has said all four were killed in Israeli airstrikes while Israel had previously said it had ”grave concern” for the lives of the Bibas family .""

No Excuse what so ever,

These children and their mother should have NEVER been touched.

"" Hamas has said all four were killed in Israeli airstrikes while Israel had previously said it had ”grave concern” for the lives of the Bibas family .""

No Excuse what so ever,

Well said Woody.

"Israel to release all women AND CHILDREN seized from Gaza..."

Seizing children is "beyond Satanism ", no matter the side.

It’s a terrible shame and one that’s hard to ever forget.

Both sides have committed heinous acts and still continue to do so.

The Times of Israel saying Bibbas family did not give permission for the childrens names, and presumably photos, to be released.

IDF "apologized for this error "

Netanyahu could have saved these children and their mother by DEMANDING their release during the first hostages exchange back in Nov. 2023, but instead Bibi and his war mongers press on with their killing machines thinking they could rescue them.

Hamas has pushed releasing all hostages at once for "phase two ", not in batches.

Hamas wants an end to the war .

In fighting in Israels Knesset, including threat to bring down the PM if war ends, not assisting the release.

And some people think that Hamas are the good guys! Unbelievable! Israel is a much better country than I am (not that I'm a country, but you get what I mean.). There is no way I would turn over hundreds of convicted criminals for four dead bodies. Hamas must be destroyed, along with Hezbollah and those in Iran who are complicit. As long as those terrorists are alive, peace will not have a chance.

YeahRightToday  09:10 am JST

And some people think that Hamas are the good guys! Unbelievable! Israel is a much better country than I am (not that I'm a country, but you get what I mean.).

So you don't believe what Hamas said about the hostages getting killed by Israeli airstrikes, then? Although isn't it at least a possibility given the way the IDF have been obliterating Gaza and killing just about everyone indiscriminately?

Yeahright...for balance....5 IDF reservists have been indicted for the brutal torture and mistreatment of a Gaza detainee.

The victim was shackled hand and feet, taken to a space shielded by other IDF and tasered, stomped on, beaten with clubs and stabbed in the anus.

7 broken ribs, and a perforated bowel among his injuries.

IDF reservists simply dumped him on a mattress following their cowardly torture.

Reservists are "ordinary Israeli citizens ", and in this case, they were mostly officers.

No peace while Israel has people of this kind, I say in response to your last sentence.

Info. from Times of Israel

There are Arabs who support the right of Israel to exist:

https://youtu.be/WMi2DH6K0So

Fighto...again...dont call people "vermin "...the word has a history.

Dehumanising any group a Nazi technique.

.....NB No evidence baby was tortured nor murdered, and all comments condemn the kidnapping.

Giving Jews a homeland meant the forced exodus and displacement of millions of Arabs, mainly Muslims.

Why the Jewish exceptionalism ?

Fighto!Today  11:09 am JST

Keep bombing them and targeting the general areas where Hamas vermin are operating, until there are no more.

Right, because that tactic always works, doesn't it. Wait a minute, though - bombing British cities didn't do the Germans much good in 1940, flattening Japan didn't seem to discourage the Japanese until the atomic bombs were dropped, and I'm pretty sure the USAF did a number on North Vietnam too. Look how that turned out.

On considered reflection then, I think it's a dumb idea and it'll only breed more terrorism.

Giving Jews a homeland meant the forced exodus and displacement of millions of Arabs, mainly Muslims.

This is the great distortion of the propaganda machine. Jews and Arabs could have coexisted together in an excellent manner, enriching each other matterially and culturally.

The remains of the youngest and one of the oldest captives seized by Hamas during the attack that ignited the war in the Gaza Strip are expected to be returned on Thursday, an Israeli official said Wednesday.

The handover, part of the ceasefire agreement that has paused the fighting in Gaza, will include the bodies of a mother and her two young children whose fate was uncertain and a retired journalist in his 80s, said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.

Stare at the photo, at least for a few minutes, now, how in any religious pro Hamas Islamic effort to plunge depth of antisemitic hell hole hatred of detest loathing can anyone justify such atrocity.

I would hope that Israels right to exist is recognised by all people, Arabs included.

Recognition of Israel proper, not abstract "right to exist " , will come with an equitable treatment of the displaced Palestine people.

Israel thwarting that .

3 issues...border of any Palestinian nation, right of return and status of Jerusalem.

Netanyahu has said no to all these.

The remains of the youngest and one of the oldest captives seized by Hamas during the attack that ignited the war in the Gaza Strip are expected to be returned on Thursday, an Israeli official said Wednesday.

Sad news.

The rejection of the UN resolutions 181 and 242 by the extremist leaderships of the Palestinian Arabs was a giant, tragic and criminal mistakes. The thwarting/scuttling of the Saudi peace effort was a criminal mistake. The launchings of the 1948 war, the 1990s-2000s terror campaign and the 2023 raid/massacre/rape were criminal mistakes.

The solution of the Middle East conflict should be based on the following three principles: 1) Ensuring security, 2) Addressing the meeds of both peoples for enough space for agriculture, housing and industry, 3) Addressing, as much as possible, the sentiments of both peoples towards the land.