After nearly seven weeks in captivity, 24 hostages seized by Hamas in its deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel are now free after crossing into Egypt. In exchange, Israel released 39 Palestinians hours later at the city of Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

  • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    76·
    1 year ago

    But they were in captivity? Why even bring semantics into something like this?

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      159·
      1 year ago

      They were arrested and jailed. The article should have done a better job not equating people convicted of crimes with people abducted from their homes as their families and neighbors were being murdered by a terrorist junta.

      I’m guessing the author is trying to “represent both sides equally.”

      • alvvayson@lemmy.worldEnglish
        159·
        1 year ago

        Nelson Mandela was also arrested and jailed by an Apartheid state.

        We have no way to know if these people actually did anything wrong.

        There should be a presumption of innocence.

      • Primarily0617@kbin.social
        94·
        1 year ago

        They were arrested and jailed.

        as a disclaimer, i don’t think i really know enough about the situation to comment on it holistically

        that said, if a state wants to find a justification to convict somebody, it can find it

        i don’t think that, in a war between two states, trusting what an instrument of one state says about an instrument of another is justification by itself