What is it that Hamas says...? Oh yes: There is no such thing as an Israeli civilian, because they're all (theoretically) subject to draft in the IDF. Therefore they're all combatants and therefore we can kill them all, men, women, and children.
Well, all Palestinians are Hamas collaborators.
Does the same rule apply?
Former Hamas hostages are now reporting that those poor innocent Palestinian "civilians" were their active kidnappers during their kidnapping.
Andrew Tobin for the Free Beacon:
Israeli women and children have in recent weeks begun speaking publicly about what they experienced during nearly two months in Hamas captivity late last year.
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When the Israelis encountered Gazans on the streets, the results were often terrifying.
The revelations underscore the urgency of Israel's 100-plus-day war to destroy Hamas and bring home the 132 hostages who, officials believe, remain captive in Gaza. At the same time, though, the released hostages' accounts indicate how difficult it could be to extricate either the remaining hostages or Hamas from a radicalized population.
"The main issue is that the organization is very much melted into the social structure of Gaza," Michael Milshtein, a former senior Israeli military intelligence officer and a leading expert on Hamas, told the Washington Free Beacon. "There is no way you can really know who is Hamas. Someone might have a grocery store where he sells tomatoes and water, but he might also have storehouse of weapons and give religious lessons there."
And his wife and kids might be keeping an Israeli hostage at home.
So, by Hamas' logic, there is no such thing as a "Palestinian civilian" and all are valid targets for bombing, right?
Right?
"Hamas is not only a political matter in Gaza. It's a way of life," Milshtein said. "We can and should ruin Hamas militarily and change the political arena in Gaza. But ultimately the Gazan people will have to do some soul searching. And here in the Arab world, not only the Palestinians, soul searching is very rare."
The IDF found the bodies of three hostages in a Hamas terror tunnel.
The three hostages were Sgt. Ron Sherman, Cpl. Nik Beizer and Elia Toledano, according to The Times of Israel. The IDF reportedly struck the tunnel where these hostages were held to target Ahmed Ghandour, Hamas' Northern Gaza Brigade commander. However, the IDF did not know the three Israelis were there, the outlet reported.
Here's a (rhetorical) question: Why are #MeToo feminists, who cancelled people and destroyed lives over hugs, completely silent on Hamas' use of rape and Jack-the-Ripper-like genital mutilation as a terror weapon?
"There has been no prominent rallying cry from our prominent women's organizations," Weiss said, name checking the National Organization for Women as one egregious example. "Instead, there has been silence.
"Silence from the leaders of the MeToo movement," she added, although that group partially dissolved following the news that it consulted with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on allegations he sexually harassed multiple women.
"Silence from the celebrities who spoke at the Women's March and in Time's Up," Weiss said. "Silence from those who denounce pay gaps and Harvey Weinstein and Trump's 'grab them by the p****y comments and rape culture more generally.
"Silence from the people who opposed Brett Kavanaugh's nomination for the Supreme Court," she added.