Comment on In the Hamas/Israel war, why does Palestine have "hostages" but Israel has "prisoners"?
TheOldRazzleDazzle@lemm.ee 10 months agoPrisoners are used to trade for “other stuff” as well, you know. Prisoners of War aren’t only soldiers, and they’re even held after a war ends to be used as trade.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 10 months ago
i think prisoner of war is entirely different category and can be taken for multiple reason, including but not limited to trading for other prisoners of war held by enemy, isolate them from the rest of the combatant, extract intel, so on and so forth. Hostage is very specifically meant for trading, while prisoner is meant to punish and isolate from the rest of the group.