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"Officials said that Israel and Egypt were prepared to let foreigners leave the Strip which is under heavy Israeli bombardment, but Hamas had refused."

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[–] snek@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

From the footage at Rafah, feels like hundreds of foreign nationals are gathered waiting an okay from Israel and Egypt. I don't see WHY Hamas would even care to stop Palestinian Americans from leaving to the states.

[–] GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hamas intends to use those people as leverage to get their home countries to exert pressure on Israel. Hamas is basically taking them hostage.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is there any source for that idea, or that this is actually happening? The only source for this article are US officials, who are full-throated allies of Israel, so there likely could be a bias. Telegraph is widely known as biased.

[–] GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I'm just saying that a group that has taken ACTUAL hostages certainly isn't above using foreign nationals as quasi-hostages to pressure other countries to exert influence on Israel to get them to stop shelling Gaza.

[–] snek@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I have failed to find any statement made by Egypt to confirm this.

[–] snek@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

No evidence for that though

[–] snek@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

Home counties?

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They don't see the Palestinians, they see the Americans, and Americans are hostages and also decadents who deserve being knocked down a peg

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right now, the Israelis are bombing the Rafah crossing and blaming Hamas for the dead.

[–] snek@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Pretty much, yes. In fact they have caused road problems on two occasions that took days of repair.