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.

  • 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