Connect with us

RSS

Disgusting Palestinian Mockery: Tortured Israeli Hostages Were in ‘Vacation Resorts’

Released hostage, Ohad Ben Ami, who was seized during the deadly October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, embraces a loved one as he is reunited with his family at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, in this handout image obtained by Reuters on February 8, 2025. Photo: Haim Zach/GPO/Handout via REUTERS

In a grotesque editorial in its official paper, the Palestinian Authority (PA) wrote last week that Hamas is releasing the Israeli hostages after almost a year and a half “in good health” and “without dust on their clothes, as if they had been in vacation resorts.”

The PA even stated that Hamas “did not protect only their lives but also their welfare,” releasing them “with gifts”:

PA editorial: “They [Hamas] handed over the hostages with gifts and in good health! … completely committed to the agreement, with the release of [Israeli] hostages without dust on their clothes, as if they had been in vacation resorts! They [Hamas] did not protect only their lives but also their welfare.” [emphasis added]

[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Feb. 2, 2025]

The photos of the three male hostages Or Levy, Eli Sharabi, and Ohad Ben Ami, who were released on Saturday, prove how odious the PA’s distorted claim is.

The Israeli hostages were starved, tortured, and kept in the dark for almost the entire period of their captivity. The appearances of Levy, Sharabi, and Ben Ami resemble those of Holocaust survivors emerging from the Nazi death camps in 1945.

Indeed, Israeli medical sources who treated the three told the press that “their condition is no different than people who spent a year in a concentration camp,” according to YNet News. Other released hostages have revealed the severe physical, psychological, and sexual abuse they suffered from the Hamas terrorists and Gazan civilians who held them captive.

Palestinian Media Watch has exposed the PA Foreign Ministry’s ridicule of Israel, which it said “whines about 100 hostages.”

The following is a longer excerpt of the PA’s editorial:

The Israeli hostages in the hands of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, when they were handed over [to the Red Cross] while they were most neatly dressed, became through populist demonstrations a kind of message from Hamas to Israel. The message is that [the Hamas members] have reached a state of logical thinking, obedience, and good behavior, as they handed over the hostages with gifts and in good health! …

More than 50,000 female and male Martyrs and more than 100,000 wounded — and the result is an agreement of performances for [internal] consumption and messages that confirm to Israel: We are completely committed to the agreement, with the release of hostages without dust on their clothes, as if they had been in vacation resorts!

They [Hamas] did not protect only their lives but also their welfare, but they forgot and neglected protecting the lives of the Gaza Strip residents, whose lives and homes have been crushed by Israeli fighter jets for 15 months! They, who cover themselves with a religious guise, forgot and ignored the fact that one of the goals of Islamic law is to protect life, mind, and property.

Was it not possible to hand over these hostages in the first week of Israel’s war against the Gaza Strip, after it became clear that it is a highly aggressive and wild war?

[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Feb. 2, 2025]

The author is a senior analyst at Palestinian Media Watch, where a version of this article was originally published.

The post Disgusting Palestinian Mockery: Tortured Israeli Hostages Were in ‘Vacation Resorts’ first appeared on Algemeiner.com.

Continue Reading

RSS

Israeli Strike on Tehran Kills Bodyguard of Slain Hezbollah Chief

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi lays a wreath as he visits the burial site of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, on the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon, June 3, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

A member of Lebanese armed group Hezbollah was killed in an Israeli air strike on Tehran alongside a member of an Iran-aligned Iraqi armed group, a senior Lebanese security source told Reuters and the Iraqi group said on Saturday.

The source identified the Hezbollah member as Abu Ali Khalil, who had served as a bodyguard for Hezbollah’s slain chief Hassan Nasrallah. The source said Khalil had been on a religious pilgrimage to Iraq when he met up with a member of the Kataeb Sayyed Al-Shuhada group.

They traveled together to Tehran and were both killed in an Israeli strike there, along with Khalil’s son, the senior security source said. Hezbollah has not joined in Iran’s air strikes against Israel from Lebanon.

Kataeb Sayyed Al-Shuhada published a statement confirming that both the head of its security unit and Khalil had been killed in an Israeli strike.

Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli aerial attack on Beirut’s southern suburbs in September.

Israel and Iran have been trading strikes for nine consecutive days since Israel launched attacks on Iran, saying Tehran was on the verge of developing nuclear weapons. Iran has said it does not seek nuclear weapons.

The post Israeli Strike on Tehran Kills Bodyguard of Slain Hezbollah Chief first appeared on Algemeiner.com.

Continue Reading

RSS

Hamas Financial Officer and Commander Eliminated by IDF in the Gaza Strip

Israeli soldiers operate during a ground operation in the southern Gaza Strip, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, July 3, 2024. Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool via REUTERS

i24 News – The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), in cooperation with the General Security Service (Shin Bet), announced on Friday the killing of Ibrahim Abu Shamala, a senior financial official in Hamas’ military wing.

The operation took place on June 17th in the central Gaza Strip.

Abu Shamala held several key positions, including financial officer for Hamas’ military wing and assistant to Marwan Issa, the deputy commander of Hamas’ military wing until his elimination in March 2024.

He was responsible for managing all the financial resources of Hamas’ military wing in Gaza, overseeing the planning and execution of the group’s war budget. This involved handling and smuggling millions of dollars into the Gaza Strip to fund Hamas’ military operations.

The post Hamas Financial Officer and Commander Eliminated by IDF in the Gaza Strip first appeared on Algemeiner.com.

Continue Reading

RSS

Report: Wary of Assassination by Israel, Khamenei Names 3 Potential Successors

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves during a meeting in Tehran, Iran, May 20, 2025. Photo: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS

i24 News – Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei named three senior clerics as candidates to succeed him should he be killed, the New York Times reported on Saturday citing unnamed Iranian officials. It is understood the Ayatollah fears he could be assassinated in the coming days.

Khamenei reportedly mostly speaks with his commanders through a trusted aide now, suspending electronic communications.

Khamenei has designated three senior religious figures as candidates to replace him as well as choosing successors in the military chain of command in the likely event that additional senior officials be eliminated.

Earlier on Saturday Israel confirmed the elimination of Saeed Izadi and Bhanam Shahriari.

Shahriari, head of Iran’s Quds Force Weapons Transfer Unit, responsible for arming Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, was killed in an Israeli airstrike over 1,000 km from Israel in western Iran.

The post Report: Wary of Assassination by Israel, Khamenei Names 3 Potential Successors first appeared on Algemeiner.com.

Continue Reading

Copyright © 2017 - 2023 Jewish Post & News