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Essentially your point is that Hamas protected the hostages from the IDF by not returning them and keeping them underground in chains in near starvation conditions.

This is abject insanity and it’s a good representation of what is going on in the minds of most of humanity.

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Are they wrong? On October 7, Hamas released three hostages. Israel shot and killed the hostages, so Hamas said they won't release any more hostages without some kind of security deal. That sounds a lot like protecting them to me.

That is completely incorrect. The terrorists that were put in charge of these hostages fled and left them alone in a war zone. They were definitely NOT released.

They were killed because of mistaken identity, which is horrible, but it happens in war, some IDF soldiers died from friendly fire.

Hamas definitely didn’t ask protection for the hostages, they asked protection for themselves.

There are many hostages reports of Hamas terrorists saying to hostages that if IDF will draw near, they will shoot the hostages.

They accidentally sniped the naked guy holding a white flag and shouting in Hebrew?

Yes, because Hamas routinely does that to lure IDF soldiers.

Let’s use occams razor hear.

Option A - mistaken identity because the enemy wears no uniform, embeds itself in civilians, and uses inhumane tactics to confuse IDF soldiers (like putting explosives on dead bodies, placing speakers with hostages recording as bait)

Option B - IDF decided to kill the hostages they came to rescue for some evil reason

Awfully convenient for them that whenever a hostage gets released they can just say "whoopsie" and justify it as they thought it was a lure.

It happened once.

And I see you’re sticking with the “evil IDF just decided to kill these 3 hostages without any reason” plot.

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