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Come to think of it, Israel should unilaterally change the price for dead hostages: only one prisoner for a corpse. Since living civilian hostages, no matter their condition, get Hams 30 prisoners in the first phase, this should be an incentive

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Agreed.

The other returning hostages have given plenty of testimony about what counts as medical care to these monsters.

And they have still not admitted how many of the hostages are already dead.

Since the world let them get away with executing hostages, we cannot allow hamas to stall now.

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The treatment of recently freed hostages Or Levy, Eli Sharabi, and Ohad Ben Ami.

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After 491 horrific days, Ohad Ben Ami, a survivor of Hamas captivity in Gaza, reunites with his daughters in the hospital in Israel. 

🎥: GPO

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I want those earrings

Necklace and Earrings

1840s

The Victoria & Albert Museum

“Naturalistic jewellery, decorated with clearly recognisable flowers or fruit, emerged with the Romantic movement in the early 19th century. It remained popular for many decades. This piece is notable for its particularly vivid combination of colours. With its matching pair of long earrings, its impact would have been considerable.“

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People really need to consider the following before they open their mouth about the state of the hostages:

1. Hamas will release the hostages in the worst shape last.

2. Hamas will shower the hostages, pamper them up, and pump them with pills, (all of these were said by hostages who came back) all so they can present them as if they haven't gone through literal hell. Benzos especially are known and I know from personal experience of their calming effect. You literally care about nothing.

4. Of course the hostages are going to smile and be happy! Regardless of the pills, who wouldn’t be happy coming home after 400+ days in captivity???

Which brings me to my last point

4. Palestinian prisoners were literally partying when they returned. If you want to make that comparison, that surely means the prisoners were treated exceptionally well, no?

No, right? So cut the bullshit.

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I don't use this word lightly given it's history with our people but what Hamas did today, forcing the hostages to give interviews is a new level of monsterous. They won't even let them fucking be released without one last humiliation, and the Res Cross just sit there watching.

They're fucking fascist monsters and the world is just letting them do it with no pushback. It's horrific.

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As Hamas was still conducting its October 7 massacre, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) notified the London Metropolitan Police (Met) about the first London anti-Israel March, planned for October 14, according to a November 2023 freedom of information disclosure.

An organizer on behalf of PSC, which has since held weekly protest marches in London, called the Met to inform them of their intended procession at 12:50 p.m. on the day that Gazans infiltrated southern Israel, killed over 1,200 people, and took 251 more hostage.

I just want to pause because this needs to be fully understood. it was still the afternoon of October 7th in Israel when this was done (the massacre itself was not over on nor contained to the day of 10/7). Israelis were still being slaughtered and burned alive in their homes, raped and abducted from a music festival, hiding in bomb shelters and bushes when PSC called the Met Police in London to stage a protest. no response had been drafted, no military action had begun. this was about rallying in favor of a massacre.

this is hardly unique, we’ve known this to be the case everywhere from Columbia University to Sydney, Australia, but having it on record matters.

At this time, Israeli security forces had just reached the Supernova festival site, still battling terrorists in Sderot and facing hostage sieges in towns such as Kibbutz Be’eri.

As Hamas rocket launchers and mortars continued to bombard southern Israel and Israel undertook airstrikes and a blockade of the Gaza Strip, PSC held an October 9 protest in front of the Israeli embassy in London. The protest called on the British government to enact an arms embargo against Israel and condemned the IDF operations.

“Israel’s relentless bombardment of the Gaza Strip has killed hundreds since Saturday,” PSC wrote on X/Twitter on October 9.

The October 14 march, organized by PSC Friends of al-Aqsa, Stop the War Coalition, Muslim Association of Britain, Palestinian Forum in Britain, and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, was held to show “solidarity with Palestine and to demand Israel end its occupation of Palestinian land and apartheid rule over the Palestinian people.”

Over 100,000 people attended the event, according to organizers, many of whom were provided with prefabricated signs calling to “end Israeli apartheid.”

[…] The Manchester PSC chapter issued explicit support for the October 7 pogrom, calling it a “heroic move” ahead of an October 8 rally.

“The brave fighters gave us all a glimpse of a liberated Palestine as they took hold over entire Israeli settlements, leaving the Israeli system surprised and paralyzed and shattering its illusions that the Palestinians can be pacified while imprisoned,” Manchester PSC said.

In response, PSC had associated social media posts deleted and suspended the Manchester chapter’s officers.

“Palestine Solidarity Campaign has repeatedly stated our firm belief that international law makes clear that the deliberate killing of civilians, hostage-taking, and collective punishment are war crimes. We condemn any such acts, no matter who perpetrates them,” the group said on October 28.

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Marcus stopped abruptly in the middle of the grass. A woman in a blue dress was already sitting on the Crisis Bench. He didn’t recognize the dress. She looked up from where she was sitting.

“Sorry,” he said, holding up his hands. “I didn’t think anyone would be over here.” He didn’t think he remembered an introduction to anyone in that dress. It was a memorable sort of a dress. “I believe I ran into your mother inside?” he ventured, because he ran into so many mothers.

“She’s not here,” she said, which was not what he wanted to hear and which he absolutely could not handle at the moment.

“Right,” he said, trying to recover, pretending as if he’d just remembered something. “Your father–”

“We haven’t met,” she interrupted. “I’m not anyone.”

“Oh thank god,” he said, abandoning propriety to collapse onto the bench, dropping his head between his knees. “Thank you.”

“Too many people?” she said sympathetically.

“I’m really bad with faces,” he admitted.

“A lot of people are,” she assured him.

He dragged his hands down his face. “I just confused a Duke with a waiter.”

She bit her lip. “As long as you aren’t rude to waiters, you should be fine,” she said.

“I wasn’t rude,” he said. “I’m never rude. It would have been better if I was rude.” He buried his face in his hands. “I tipped him,” he said, anguished, muffled by his palms. Why had he been dressed like a waiter?

She burst out laughing, loud and with her head tipped back, overwhelming the empty garden. He separated his fingers to stare at her.

“Sorry,” she hiccuped, which immediately descended back into snorts. She laughed like she was hunting for truffles.

“Thanks,” he said, though he almost did feel better. “I’m feeling very supported in my time of need.”

“There’s only one thing you can do,” she said, wiping tears from her eyes, trying to dab at them to not destroy her makeup. Reflexively, he offered her a handkerchief, which she accepted. “You have to flee the country. It’s the only way.” She checked the handkerchief for signs of smeared eyeliner. “Leave your family. Change your name. Get a new family. Never tell them your dark secret.”

“I think my old family might notice if I got a new family,” he said, now resting his chin in his hands, elbows balanced on his knees.

“That’s why you have to burn your house down,” she said matter-of-factly, now holding his handkerchief in a neat fold in her lap. “Just burn the whole thing. Everything but your favorite hat. You leave the hat on top of the ashes for your family to find. ‘This must be him’ they’ll say. 'He would never have left his favorite hat’. It’s the perfect crime. Once it’s done, you become a pig farmer. Anyone comes around asking questions, you feed them to the pigs.”

“You seem like you’ve put a lot of thought into this,” he observed. “How are your pigs?”

She looked him over sidelong. “Hungry,” she said primly.

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https://english.radio.cz/beavers-build-planned-dams-protected-landscape-area-while-local-officials-still-8841536

A beaver colony in the Brdy region has gained overnight fame by building several dams in the Brdy protected landscape area, creating a natural wetland exactly where it was needed. It saved the local authorities 30 million crowns, and has the public cracking jokes about public administration and red tape.

The administration of the Brdy protected landscape area, which had gained approval for the 30 million crown project, was dealing with red tape and seeking the respective building permits from the Vltava River Basin authorities when the dam project was completed almost overnight by a local colony of beavers.

They could not have chosen their location better –erecting the dams on a bypass gully that was built by soldiers in the former military base years ago, so as to drain the area. The revitalization project drafted by environmentalists was supposed to remedy this. Bohumil Fišer, head of the Brdy Protected Landscape Area Administration says Nature took its course and the beavers created the necessary biotope conditions practically overnight.

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The Ministry of Agriculture in Kazan, Tatarstan, RUSSIA

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