I think you forgot to read the fact that these “children” must’ve done something to be put in prison or detention, either because they did some crime against israeli or by illegally staying in israel. Do you think they’re too stupid to purposely want to be hated by the whole world by jailing innocent childrens?

Bless your heart.

You think they give two shits about me and you hating them? They barely care what the US thinks of them, as long as the US remains a useful idiot that’ll veto any chance at accountability.

Netanyahu is on the record of calling the US a puppet:

I know what America is […]America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. They won’t get in the way.

Since taking hostages is a war crime, the whole “prisoners” thing is an extremely thin veil to circumvent those laws.

Extremely thin, because they use administrative detention and military courts with “secret” evidence for the few that are lucky to see a court in the first place.

Not to mention the litany of human rights violations that occurs in the prisons themselves.

Even POWs are to be treated better than the administrative detainees hostages according to the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War.

So about those laws.

Also wondering which Israeli laws allow for the physical, mental and sexual abuse of children. Perhaps it might be good to change those if they exist.

And since we’re on the topic of laws. Perhaps we should look into Article 2 of the CPPCG, and, if Israel insists these people are prisoners of war, which seems to be the case with the venue of choice being a military court, Article 13 of the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War.

Surely the “only democracy in the Middle East” will adhere to most supreme of all laws?

I love how you linked to an anti-Palestinian subreddit that ran out of “unprovoked” stabbings for their little propaganda clip, so they just included two examples of Palestinians being hassled by Israelis for good measure (security guard and police respectively).

Meanwhile, the Israeli government themselves published a list of 300 people eligible for hostage exchange on which 80% were listed without charge or conviction.

And that’s not even touching upon the whole “administrative detention” nonsense, nor the physical, mental and sexual abuse of children in between torture.

So either you’re purposefully ignorant in pretending that all of the hostages are violent offenders, or you’re in favor of collective punishment.

The latter would be a rather untenable position, because that logic would mean you condone the hostage taking of Israeli civilians for the acts of their government (more so when you consider the conscription laws in Israel).

The article states:

A majority of people on the list hadn’t been charged or sentenced for any crime

Which doesn’t do it justice. Majority could be a little more than half.

CNN’s Nima Elbagir apparently went through the list published by the Israeli government and found that 80% of them were held without anything substantial listed behind their names (40s mark).