Saturday, February 22, 2025

HOSTAGE UPDATE:  505 Days
Hostages are in the hands of people who kill babies with their bare hands.
EmojiAmericans, are still being held in Hamas' hell under Gaza.
EmojiSix hostages released alive on Saturday: - Avera/Avraham Mengistu, 38 - Hisham al-Sayed, 36 - Omer Wenkert/Finkert, 23 - Eliya Cohen, 27 - Tal Shoham, 39 - Omer Shem-Tov, 22. 
Avera and Hisham had been held captive by Hamas for over a decade, 3,821 days.
EmojiHamas was supposed to release the bodies of four murdered Israeli hostages on February 20. Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, and Oded Lifshitz were all taken alive on October 7 and murdered while in captivity in Gaza. Returned were the bodies of murdered Bibas infant and toddler, Lifshitz, and an unknown body. Hamas created a horrific spectacle, parading the coffins below a banner showing images of their smiling faces before a cheering crowd of Palestinian families then handed over locked coffins labled “Date of arrest: October 7th,” along with keys that didn’t open the coffins. The next day, the Red Cross received a coffin holding Shiri Bibas.
EmojiKhalil al-Hayya of Hamas' expressed "openness" to "release all 59 remaining live hostages" together in one day.
EmojiThe United States must increase the pressure on Hamas and its sponsors in Iran, Qatar and Turkey to release the hostages.
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The Australian Muslim community, 50 groups including the Lebanese Muslim Association, defended the Bankstown Hospital Nurses Who Bragged About Murdering Patients  https://www.thefp.com/p/israelophobia-goes-mainstream-down

EmojiAs Egypt rapidly builds its military and strengthens its presence in Sinai, Israel must ask: Who is Cairo really preparing to fight? 

EmojiAbbas, the PA, throws even more money at released terrorist millionaires 
EmojiAt Hamas' grotesque ceremony to transfer the bodies Wednesday night was recently released terrorist Mohammad Abu Warda, who murdered three Americans in a bus bombing in 1996.
EmojiHamas evil on full display: At the hostage release (Sasha Troufanov, Sagui Dekel-Chen, and Iair (Yair) Horn) spectacle last Saturday, CNN stated that the hostages were given memorabilia. No, the hostages weren’t carrying "memorabilia." They weren’t leaving a holiday camp with souvenirs. The hourglass, a cruel taunt from Hamas, bore an image of Matan Zangauker, still in captivity, meant for his mother with the message: "Time is running out." Hamas used Eitan Horn’s stolen pickup truck as a prop in their sham ceremony and the terrorists arrived in Yair’s brother’s vehicle to release him.
EmojiGazan girl thanked a Hamas terrorist for making October 7th “special” because it falls on her birthday. https://x.com/Osint613/status/1892891889554051493
Hamas claims they handed over Shiri Bibas, but also that they lost her remains in an Israeli airstrike, but also that they mistakenly gave Israel a Gazan woman’s body instead—and now they want it back. 

Qatari emir visits Iran to strengthen relations https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-842825

Swiss Council of States foreign affairs committee just voted to “immediately suspend all funding of UNRWA.” The US defunded UNRWA in March; Netherlands and Sweden in January.

The United States must increase the pressure on Hezbollah and Lebanon to comply with the terms of the ceasefire and work with our allies to prevent Iran from rearming Hezbollah.



ESPECIALLY EGREGIOUS MEDIA FAILS
EmojiOver 48 hours after Israeli forensics confirmed that the Bibas babies were murdered by terrorists’ bare bands, Time and Associated Press are parroting Hamas propaganda that they died in an Israeli airstrike.
EmojiBBC put on a Hamas Propaganda Pantomime https://david-collier.com/bbc-pantomime/
EmojiRolling Stone 
https://www.camera.org/article/rolling-stone-covering-a-year-and-a-half-of-war/
EmojiMedia Ignored the Most Disturbing Part of Hamas’ Handover of Israeli Remains—In Gaza, It Was ‘Family-Friendly’ Entertainment https://honestreporting.com/media-ignored-the-most-disturbing-part-of-hamas-handover-of-israeli-remains-in-gaza-it-was-family-friendly-entertainment/
EmojiLos Angeles Times falsely reports most remaining hostages are soldiers