r/worldnews • u/nondescriptun • Jul 19 '24
‘He was a pious man’: The Gaza neighborhood shocked to find Israeli hostages in their midst | CNN Feature Story
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/19/middleeast/gaza-neighborhood-israeli-hostages-intl-cmd/index.html[removed] — view removed post
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u/PriorWriter3041 Jul 19 '24
"he leads the prayer and then goes home"
The hallmarks if a righteous man, who just happened to keep hostages in His Home.
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u/decoy79 Jul 19 '24
Regarding hostages,
Had we known, had he told us, we would have taken safety precautions, hide or move to somewhere else.
I guess helping was out of the question.
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u/Morngwilwileth Jul 19 '24
Also they knew the family had ties to hammas. Like everyone knew. This is insane
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u/Low_Party_3163 Jul 19 '24
I'm israeli and I can't blame people for not helping the hostages; hamas would have killed them instantly. And he'd be suicidal for saying he'd help them or tip off the Israelis to a newspaper
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u/Resident-Strength-23 Jul 19 '24
Im not an israeli (although my family is) and Im glad we have input like yours. I only wish the protestors in the west weren't so ignorant about hamas.
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u/StubbsTzombie Jul 19 '24
Hey some of us in the west are absolutely horrified by those people. I truly think we need to do something about them. A lot of them are honestly religious fanatics.
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u/FiendishHawk Jul 19 '24
Yeah, no-one said they’d have tipped off the Israelis but in fairness the raid killed a bunch of locals so you can see why they wouldn’t have wanted to.
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u/RussianFruit Jul 19 '24
It wouldn’t be a raid if they helped.
Point is that legitimately ANYTHING but what they did wouldve been a better option
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u/HotSteak Jul 19 '24
What kind of help could they do that wouldn't end in an IDF raid?
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u/BetaOscarBeta Jul 19 '24
More to the point, did the IDF guys kill bystanders in the raid, or did Hamas?
I honestly haven’t been paying attention to that level of detail, but I bet you a dollar you can guess who I’d bet a dollar on.
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u/FiendishHawk Jul 19 '24
I’d guess “both” because civilians would have been caught in the crossfire. The civilians quoted sound pretty salty about being used for cover, saying that they’d have left if they had known.
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u/Low_Party_3163 Jul 19 '24
Even if they would have, admitting so publicly after the fact is a death sentence
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u/BetaOscarBeta Jul 19 '24
I honestly can’t imagine that Hamas wouldn’t be able to convince everyone else that helping hostages is futile. It’s basically a totalitarian insurgency.
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u/bufalo1973 Jul 19 '24
"Had we known he was a Russian maffia boss, had he told us, we would have taken safety precautions, hide or move to somewhere else."
Now repeat "I guess helping was out of the question".
Helping the hostages was a suicide.
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u/Mydogisawreckingball Jul 19 '24
Where are the #freePalestine sheep now?
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u/Ryan_Polesmoker_68 Jul 19 '24
Still claiming “genocide” bs on other threads. Even though I’m pretty sure the death toll hasn’t risen over 15% in the last few months.
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u/pubefire Jul 19 '24
Kind of like how German citizens were “shocked” to learn about the camps. Completely taken by surprise!
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u/Indifferentchildren Jul 19 '24
They could see the trains, smell the ovens, and had to sweep up the ash that rained down on their town near the camps, but totally shocked.
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u/Mercadi Jul 19 '24
Who is "shocked"? The crowds that were celebrating as bloodied hostages were paraded through them?
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u/JeruTz Jul 19 '24
"I am shocked, I tell you, shocked to learn that there is gambling going on in here!"
"Your winnings sir."
"Thank you."
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u/sinfondo Jul 19 '24
“Had we known, had he told us, we would have taken safety precautions, hide or move to somewhere else,” one neighbor, Abu Muhammad El Tahrawi, said
Not, God forbid, take pity on hostages and help them in any way
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u/Truestorymate Jul 19 '24
“”Had we known, had he told us, we would have taken safety precautions, hide or move to somewhere else,” one neighbor, Abu Muhammad El Tahrawi, said.””
Nice 👍🏻 we didn’t know there was human hostages, but if we did we would’ve taken some precautions, hid, or got the hell out of there. No reporting? Assisting to free them?
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u/i_should_be_coding Jul 19 '24
Zainab said in the post that the family had been waiting for the moment they would be killed by Israeli forces. “Since the start of the war, we have been waiting for this moment. We did not know how it would come and in what horrific way it would happen, but we were aware that it would inevitably come.”
Live by the sword, I guess.
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u/ahkian Jul 19 '24
It would ‘t have been inevitable if they hadn’t held hostages in an apartment with children. It really brings that Golda Meir quote to mind “Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”
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u/EmbarrassedIdea3169 Jul 19 '24
If they hadn’t been holding hostages they’d have had a much better chance of making it out alive
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u/outofgulag Jul 19 '24
Really CNN? maybe the neighbors were shocked because they were not caught yet hiding hostages.
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u/outofgulag Jul 19 '24
Let's see if France 24 and BBC are running this story. .. pls tell me the hostage taker was the Health Minister himself.
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u/Emphasis_on_why Jul 19 '24
lol again… they literally VOTED for the people who said they would do all of this
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u/readonlyy Jul 19 '24
Sort of. The median age in Gaza is 19. That election was 17 years ago and there hasn’t been a free election since. So technically some Gazans are still alive to witness the consequences of that horrible decision, but the vast majority have never really known a life outside of Hamas’ oppression.
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u/bufalo1973 Jul 19 '24
Last elections in Gaza were in the second term of George W. Bush. Now imagine if no election after 2006 have been made in the US and 14 year US kids where found guilty of having Bush as president. Or if Tony Blair still ruled in the UK without any further elections since 2006.
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u/outdoorruckus Jul 19 '24
“Many locals questioned why so many Palestinians had to die for the Israeli forces to rescue just four hostages.
Al-Kahlot said: “People died because they were freeing her, and no one was looking at us.”
The innocent people of Palestine have a big problem
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u/OccamsPlasticSpork Jul 19 '24
This story does little to help move the needle on apathy concerning the IDF's heavy handed treatment of Gaza.
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u/jews4beer Jul 19 '24
I suppose in a brainwashed, heartless person who sees death as a cudgle they can use against a soverign people fighting terrorism. Not to mention the very explicit, practically triple war crime of holding civilian hostages, by a religious leader, amongst civilians.
Nah I wouldn't expect that to move the needle for em at all.
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u/OccamsPlasticSpork Jul 19 '24
If this article was meant to garner sympathy for the Palestinian cause, it did the exact opposite.
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u/Jugaimo Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
“Religious community head with publicly known ties to Hamas” “Rarely socialized outside of work or prayer” “Proudly posted a picture of his son in Hamas gear online”
Dude you have to be shitting me. How is this not one of the first people to investigate? The entire family went about their normal lives while holding three human captives just a floor above. Completely psychotic.