Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
They’re missing the classics!
Kids/children vs people under 18
Hostage vs prisoners
As in *The Israeli hostages area mostly women and children, the Palestinians prisoners are mostly women and people under 18", in both cases they’re people that have nothing to do with the conflict, in both cases some of them aren’t adults.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Or maybe it’s because the Israelis, Thais, French, etc., were kidnapped from their homes for the express purpose of wartime negotiation, i.e. hostages. The Palestinians are all held in connection with crimes, including convictions for violent crimes.
If anything, this has exposed major injustices in the Israeli criminal system, such as people being held for long periods of time without charges, unrealistically high conviction rates, etc.
However, let’s also not buy into the Hamas line that the two groups are equivalent. That’s just an attempt to whitewash their Oct 7 atrocities.
Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s not true. Israel routinely detains Palestinians including children for no reason other than leverage in negotiations.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67600015
Thousands are held without charge and for indefinite periods:
*As of November 1, Israeli authorities held nearly 7,000 Palestinians from the occupied territory in detention for alleged security offenses, according to the Israeli human rights organization HaMoked. Far more Palestinians have been arrested since the October 7 attacks in Israel than have been released in the last week. Among those being held are dozens of women and scores of children.
The majority have never been convicted of a crime, including more than 2,000 of them being held in administrative detention, in which the Israeli military detains a person without charge or trial. Such detention can be renewed indefinitely based on secret information, which the detainee is not allowed to see. Administrative detainees are held on the presumption that they might commit an offense at some point in the future. Israeli authorities have held children, human rights defenders and Palestinian political activists, among others, in administrative detention, often for prolonged periods.*
hrw.org/…/why-does-israel-have-so-many-palestinia…
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s exactly what I said in my reply. Thanks for providing additional links.
Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You’re welcome.
This last of your comment is misleading as many of them are held for no reason at all.
The Palestinians are all held in connection with crimes, including convictions for violent crimes.
Also Palestinians are detained and processed by military courts so they do not benefit from civil rights that Israeli citizens enjoy