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Hamas savages filmed hostages before murdering them: ‘there’s no negotiating with terrorists’

September 3, 2024 | | Print Article

Anger is rapidly mounting in response to the news that Hamas purposefully filmed six hostages before killing them.

News of this comes as Hamas on Monday released a propaganda video of one hostage, Eden Yerushalmi, who was recently found dead from a gunshot wound.

Watch:

In the hostage video, she said she loved her parents and two sisters.

“Rights groups and international law experts say that a hostage video is, by definition, made under duress and that the statements in it are usually coerced,” according to The Seattle Times. “Israeli officials have called the videos a form of ‘psychological warfare,’ and experts say their production can constitute a war crime.”

Yerushalmi’s body was found alongside the bodies of fellow hostages Almog Sarusi, Alex Lobanov, Carmel Gat, Ori Danino, and Hersh Goldberg-Polin.

“IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari stated that the six hostages were killed by Hamas terrorists shortly before the army reached them, and their bodies were found in a tunnel in Rafah,” according to Haaretz.

It’s suspected all six were killed 48 to 72 hours before the IDF found them.

The fact that Hamas produced propaganda hostage videos of the six before killing them has sparked massive outrage:

Notice the recurring complaint that there can be no negotiating with such barbarous monsters. Sadly, the Biden-Harris administration disagrees.

President Joe Biden answered with a pithy “No” when asked by a reporter on Monday whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is doing enough to secure a ceasefire deal with Hamas.

Despite Hamas having just executed six hostages, congressional Democrats are likewise now also once more pushing for some sort of ceasefire with the terrorists.

“A ceasefire must be reached immediately that allows all remaining hostages to be released, humanitarian aid to flow into Gaza, and an elusive and neglected long-term vision for peace and stability to become a reality,” top-ranking Senate Democrat Dick Durbin said.

Congressional Republicans view things quite differently:

“The genocidal maniac who leads Hamas just executed six hostages—including an American—rather than let them be rescued,” Sen. Tom Cotton tweeted. “Kamala Harris believes if we just negotiate more with that maniac and give him more concessions, then he’ll voluntarily release other hostages.”

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“I would urge him to finish the job against Hamas, which is exactly what Kamala Harris and Joe Biden should have done from the very beginning,” Cotton added in a statement to the press.

Sen. Lindsey Graham meanwhile aimed his anger more so at Iran, the country believed to be essentially funding Hamas.

The Biden administration and Israel “should hold Iran accountable for the fate of remaining hostages and put on the target list oil refineries in Iran if the hostages are not released,” he said on ABC’s “This Week.”

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