Comment on In the Hamas/Israel war, why does Palestine have "hostages" but Israel has "prisoners"?

• ByteJunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This isn’t the reason, it doesn’t matter if Hamas accuses them or not.

  They’re considered hostages because Hamas wants to release them in exchange for something.

  Israel imprisons Palestinian as a punishment or to achieve specific goals that are not met by releasing them (like preventing political prisoners from engaging with society).

  I don’t think either term is morally superior to the other, but they do have some different connotations…

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• nonailsleft@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sure. Watch their videos

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