US President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
said Sunday that the three Israeli hostages who were released by Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...a day earlier looking gaunt and frail resembled Jews under Nazi Germany, warning that "at some point, we’re gonna lose our patience."
Eli Sharabi, Or Levy and Ohad Ben Ami "looked like Holocaust survivors," Trump told news hounds aboard Air Force One on his way to New Orleans to attend the Super Bowl. "They were in horrible condition, they were emaciated... and I don’t know how much longer we can take that."
He went on to say the trio "look like they haven’t had a meal in a month," and that they are "people that were healthy people a reasonably short number of years ago, and you look at them today, they look like they’ve aged 25 years, they literally look like the old pictures of Holocaust survivors, the same thing. No reason for that."
Trump noted that according to the current ceasefire and hostage deal, captives are supposed to "keep drippling in," but added: "They are in really bad shape, they have been treated brutally, horribly. Even the ones that came out earlier, they were in a little bit better shape, but mentally they were treated so badly. Who could take that?
"You know, at some point, we’re gonna lose our patience."
The comments came amid fresh uncertainty over whether the ceasefire deal will be seen through until all remaining 76 hostages are freed, and days after the US president called for the removal of Paleostinians from the enclave and for the US to take control of it.
Trump also told news hounds he remained committed to having the US buy and take ownership of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
after Paleostinians leave or are removed from the enclave, a surprise announcement he made February 4 during Netanyahu’s recent visit to Washington. He said other countries may take part in rebuilding sections of Gaza.
"As far as us rebuilding it, we may give it to other states in the Middle East to build sections of it, other people may do it, through our auspices. But we’re committed to owning it, taking it, and making sure that Hamas doesn’t move back."
More about America taking over Gaza can be read here.
Pleading for his release, mother says hostage Alon Ohel is wounded, chained in Hamas tunnels
Family of Ohel — who turns 24 on Monday — reports first sign of life since he was taken captive, after testimony from newly freed hostages who were held with him in dire conditions
In a heart-wrenching television interview on Sunday, Idit Ohel, the mother of hostage Alon Ohel, pleaded desperately for his release “tomorrow,” saying she had just been told that he is being held starving in chains in a Hamas tunnel and has multiple untreated injuries.
She urged the whole nation, and the entire world, to insist upon and enable his release and to come out and demonstrate on Monday as he marks his 24th birthday, his second in Hamas captivity.
Idit Ohel told Channel 12 that released hostages Eli Sharabi and Or Levy were held with her son for the duration of their captivity. Their return from Gaza on Saturday was the first time that Ohel’s family received confirmation that he is still alive since he was abducted 492 days ago from the Nova music festival.
“He has shrapnel in his eye, he has shrapnel in his shoulder, he has shrapnel in his arm. Alon was bound in chains, this entire time, and he had almost no food — at most one pita a day, over a very, very, very long time, more than a year,” an anguished Idit Ohel told Channel 12.
“And not just him — everyone who was with him: Or Levy and Eli Sharabi,” she said, naming two hostages who were released on Saturday, visibly emaciated.
She said that “everything you can see that Eli and Or went through, Alon is now experiencing.” She also said that, according to what she’s heard, her son has not received treatment for his injuries, and can only see shadows out of his wounded eye.
Hamas terrorists abducted Ohel — a then-22-year-old pianist with plans to study jazz in Tel Aviv — alongside Or Levy and Eliya Cohen, whom Hamas is still holding captive in Gaza. Also abducted from the same bomb shelter was Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was murdered in Hamas captivity in August 2024.
Reports: Newly freed hostages were abused, now suffer malnutrition, heart disorders
[IsraelTimes] Outlets cite families of Or Levy, Eli Sharabi, Ohad Ben Ami as saying they were held in Gaza tunnels; health officials: Conditions worse than previous returned captives.
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