#Israel / Ministers are utilizing the released footage showing abducted female soldiers, disregarding families' pleas for a ceasefire and negotiation for their release.
[...] Eli Elbag, Liri's father, explained that the families decided to allow the video's release, stating "because the prime minister is dragging his feet on the issue of the hostages." He added that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not held a meeting on the subject since Saturday.
[...] The families debated for some time whether to publish the video but said it was their last resort to try to influence the cabinet.
"We decided to release it now and
expose ourselves, to lay bare on television the most sensitive matter for the families, and we do it because we want our government to wake up," Elbag told Channel 12 News.
[felon] Ben-Gvir stated: "We will only return the captives if we stop their fuel and humanitarian aid and perform a root treatment in Rafah."
[pro-genocide bomb signer] Herzog said: "Liri, Karina, Agam, Daniela, Naama and all the captives - we will not rest, we will continue to fight the Hamas terrorist organization and do everything in our power to bring you home!"
[alleged war criminal] Netanyahu, who initialy ingroed the release of the video, later stated: "I am horrified by the video documenting the abduction of our dear female scouts. We will continue to do everything to bring them home. The cruelty of Hamas's militants only strengthens my resolve to fight with full force until Hamas is eliminated, in order to ensure that what we saw tonight never happens again."
#US / Video of IDF lookouts being captured by alleged Hamas militants to be screened in Times Square
The timing of this video release by the families appears now to have been a calculated effort to shift global attention away from the expected #ICC and #ICJ rulings regarding alleged genocide by Israeli forces in Gaza. Over 35,000 Palestinian civilian casualties is an enormous toll that Israel still believes can be ignored. In Israel the time may have stopped on October 7, but it didn’t anywhere else.
No political narrative can justify the level of bloodshed and devastation caused by #Israel in #Gaza. The exception, possibly, the sexualization of #Hamas violence, which has, understandably, provided a very high "return on investment" for Israel, even without concrete evidence.
Israel's exploitation of the video (and the victims’ families) demonstrates how institutions can become desensitized to individual suffering, when pursuing broader political narratives. It seems Israelis who were simply killed in captivity are no longer an asset for an outward projecting outrage.
From the international community's perspective, the staggering civilian toll of over 35,000 Palestinians killed and thousands more injured or missing in Israel's war on Gaza has understandably fostered deep distrust. It reinforces existing perceptions that Israel prioritizes public relations over all else.
No political narrative can justify the level of bloodshed and devastation caused by #Israel in #Gaza. The exception, possibly, the sexualization of #Hamas violence, which has, understandably, provided a very high "return on investment" for Israel, even without concrete evidence.
Israel's exploitation of the video (and the victims’ families) demonstrates how institutions can become desensitized to individual suffering, when pursuing broader political narratives. It seems Israelis who were simply killed in captivity are no longer an asset for an outward projecting outrage, while from the international community's perspective, the staggering civilian toll of over 35,000 Palestinians killed and thousands more injured or missing in Israel's war on Gaza has understandably fostered deep distrust, and it reinforces existing perceptions that Israel prioritizes public relations over all else.
#Israel / Faced With Brutal Footage of Women Hostages, Israel's Government Responds With Shameless Arrogance
[...] Katz, just like Netanyahu, sees the video as some kind of generous gift to be brandished outwardly as an advocacy or #hasbara tool – and not as the desperate move of families hoping it would force #Netanyahu and his ministers to look inwardly at their priorities and behavior over the past seven and a half months.