Christiane Amanpour: Israeli hostages were probably treated better than the average Gazan

Leftists in the media have issued some seriously bad takes on the Gaza War, but CNN’s Christiane Amanpour’s may take the cake.

Since the shocking attack on an Israeli music festival on October 7, two years ago, Israeli hostages have been deprived of any way to contact their families. They have been held by Hamas terrorists as bargaining chips, with many dying in captivity as they were denied basic human needs. Now, the world is watching as 20 of the hostages are released, with another 28 presumed to be dead and their remains still in the possession of Hamas.

And despite this victory for Israel that is exposing the cruelty of terrorists, Amanpour can’t help but let her bias show:

“I pretty much can assure you that once those doors are opened, it will be a scene of absolute, abject horror. And I think for sure, people who start to talk to the hostages who have only just been released, will find that it will take a long, long time for them to recover physically, but also mentally. It’s been a terrible, terrible two years for them, because not only are they there — you know, they’re probably being treated better than the average Gazan, because they are the pawns and the chips that Hamas had. Now, Hamas has given up all of its leverage, by the way, by giving them all up. So that is a victory for the Israeli side,” the veteran journalist said. “But they will have had so much horror and terror as well, because they were also in the war zone, many of them underground, we understand.”

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