So much sorrow and anguish. The sorrow for those fiendishly murdered on October 7, when Hamas killers came down like wolves on the fold, on the helpless innocent kibbutzim, and beheaded babies, burned children alive, gang-raped, tortured, and murdered young girls, the women whose breasts were sliced off, the men whose genitalia were cut off and eyes gouged out. The children murdered in front of their parents, the parents in front of their children. The killers’ laughter as they shot women in their vulvas, cut open a pregnant woman’s stomach to murder her baby before killing her, the hilarity of kicking a head, like a soccer ball, in the yard, the filming one another as they raped or mutilated or murdered. What fun! The Hamas operative who called his mother to excitedly tell her: “Mom, I killed ten Jews! I killed ten Jews with my own hands.”
Then there is the anguish of the families of the hostages. Of the original 245 believed to have been taken, how many has Hamas killed? The Israelis have recovered the bodies of eight hostages, and believe that twenty other hostages have been murdered by Hamas. Is it your child or children, your mother or your father or your sister or your brother, who is still alive, or has been killed? You may find out about your relatives next week, or you may not find out for months to come, depending on negotiations over another hostage-for-prisoner swap that may, or may not, take place. Now you have a new worry — fear that soldiers in the IDF itself might misidentify your relative held hostage as a member of Hamas. Three Israelis have already been killed from such a mistake. You have no idea what it would take — say, the killing of Yahya Sinwar — to prompt Hamas to summarily execute hostages. Will it be your relative, or someone else’s, or two dozen at once, who will receive a bullet in the back of the neck?
Two sisters, Dafna and Ella Elyakim, who were taken on October 7, were finally released in the hostage-for-prisoner swap and were met by their mother. I was particularly touched by the very tight embrace, the hug between the three of them, signifying “we must never be separated again.” More on their reunion can be found here: “This mother was reunited with her daughters after campaigning for their release on X,” Jerusalem Post, November 28, 2023:
Maayan Zin – an Israeli mother whose two daughters Dafna Elyakim, 15, and Ella Elyakim, 8, were kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 and brought into Gaza as hostages – had been rallying on their behalf on the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), demanding their release from Hamas captivity.
Her nightmare came to an end on Sunday after Israel secured their release, among the 17 people released by Hamas on the third day of the war’s “pause” in exchange for 39 Palestinian prisoners.
The family’s emotional reaction was captured on video and shared by Zin on social media.
You can see Maayan, Dafna, and Ella embracing in a video here.
And you can see all three — the mother and her two just-freed daughters — even more tightly entwined, in the photograph posted here.
That’s what cut me to the quick. That’s what I wanted you to see.
somehistory says
Only those actually going through this can say how it feels. Some of us can imagine how we might feel based on our love for family. And we can be glad with them for being reunited after such horrific happenings to them and others. It is heartwarming to see the hugs and greetings upon their release. Hoping they can recover mentally and emotionally from all they have endured.
The ghouls who kidnapped, murdered, raped, and tortured, have their supporters. Such as
“Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., said she personally warned President Biden about his re-election efforts and the importance of Muslim and young voters, who feel “heartbroken” about the Israel-Hamas war.
CBS Minnesota anchor Esme Murphy asked the far-left “Squad” member about an “abandon Biden” movement, and asked her if she would support the president in 2024.
“I recently had a conversation with the president,” she responded. “Muslims were very pivotal to his election, they mobilized in all the key states. Young people were very instrumental in getting him elected. And what I reminded him is that he needs to listen to these voices. People are heartbroken. It’s been really hard to have conversations about politics and policy. People just want the images of young children’s bodies that are piling up to end, and they want our support for this to end.”
i elmi, alias, i omar, doesn’t know “heartbroken.” One day, she will, if she has a ‘heart.’ She’s a ghoul, supporting the ghouls who kidnapped and held those innocent people while their loved ones grieved for them.
What is more, she may lose in the next election to the other mozlum running against her.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ilhan-omar-personally-warned-biden-his-re-election-in-trouble-if-he-ignores-heartbroken-young-muslim-voters/ar-AA1lGKdh?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=c744501002404ccd88bfd290d3aa3360&ei=20
tim gallagher says
I’m glad that you have described in some detail the atrocities that these scum of the earth knuckle dragging Muslims from hamas committed because it needs to be known, not hidden, and there is no way I was ever going to view any of their actions in the same way I never watched any of the atrocities the vermin from ISIS carried out a few years back because I believe seeing such filth could scar a person for life. The support for hamas has appalled me and made me hate islam even more. islam has to go, it is satanically evil and creates the subhuman monsters from hamas far too often and most other Muslims support the sadism of thses hamas vermin. Great to see the photo of that reunion. Something good among all the recent horrors. I don’t know if it will ever happen, but the best development ever for the human race would be if islam became extinct.
Pray Hard says
I’ve watched them, the 2014 moslem atrocities against Yazidis and others as “isis” was rising. The moslem atrocities happening now are basically exactly the same. Scarred for life? Maybe. More like resolute for life. Yes, your mind shifts, but you choose where it goes. You don’t know until you see. Civilized men need to see, must see. Words simply don’t do it. If we don’t see, we we don’t have the understanding and resolution to do what must be done in a similar situation. If you don’t see, you cannot understand the evil we’re dealing with. I suggest you gut up and watch.
tim gallagher says
Pray Hard, I suppose that you have to know what you can cope with. As someone who has had plenty of mental illness issues throughout my life, plenty of that sort of thing in our family for several generations, I will not be watching any of this evil, sadistic shit, but i can assure you that, and I am a person who won’t even kill insects, spiders, etc, or animals unless i absolutely have to do so in self defence, I would have no trouble at all killing these sub-human scum from hamas, isis or Muslims who support them. Maybe I value being able to sleep too much and think that i might be haunted endlessly by seeing this shit. I must say that I did think, when they gathered those journalists and made them watch the hamas scum committing their atrocities, and I thought it was a good thing to do, i thought, I wonder if any of the journalists will suffer from post-traumatic stress the way so many police do with what those poor buggers have to see in their jobs. I value these descriptions of what the hamas vermin did here at Jihad Watch because I was not sure what they had done, but i will not be putting myself through watching such evil acts. i may be a bit cowardly, but at least i can sleep OK most of the time.
James Lincoln says
tim,
I watched some of the recent atrocities committed by Hamas against the Israelis, just enough to be informed.
Just enough – but no more.
tim gallagher says
That is a good and maybe even necessary thing to do, James, but I will pass on doing that. That is why I said I’m glad that, here at Jihad Watch, there has been quite a bit of detail about what these hamas vermin have done because, at first, I didn’t know what the scum had done. I knew it had to be appalling, sadistic behaviour, but knowing some detail was necessary. For me, a few years back, when the scum from isis were committing atrocities i thought about watching some of it and decided that I wouldn’t do so. Something that is troubling is the number of degenerate, vicious, evil Muslims that will be watching this sadistic crap and getting stirred up to go and enjoy themselves doing similar inhuman actions. I’m sure it would be their favourite viewing ever in their stinking, evil lives. .
Walter Sieruk says
The “roots” of the ideology of Islamic terrorism is based on the theology of the religion of Islam.
In which has its entire foundation on the Qur ‘an.
That “holy book” of Islam the Qur ‘an [the Koran] instructs on the use of violence and killing of disbelievers for the advancement of Islam. As found in ,for example 2:191. 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4.
Furthermore, teaches hate for and towards Jewish people, as in calling them descendants of “apes and swine.” As seen in the Qu ‘ran in 2:65; 7:166.; 5:60. Therefore , the violent jihadist and devote jihad-minded Muslims despise the Jewish State of Israel.
That murderous demonic jihad entity, Hamas is based on Islam . That’s the actual, real,” roots” of that Israel – Hamas war.
Walter Sieruk says
Hamas is a violent and deadly religious organization. It’s foundation is Islam which has Quran as its ’holy book” that instructs Muslims to engage in the violence and killing of “disbelievers” for the cause of Islam, as seen in Surah 2:191. 4: 89. 5:33. 9:123. For example, Surah 47:4 reads, “Whenever you encounter the disbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…”
The terrible reality is that using rockets, machine guns and bombs will make a greater “slaughter among them than a sword can.
The jihadists of Hamas are followers of Quran based Islam and not a “warped’ type of Islam.
Walter Sieruk says
Hamas will never, ever, be able to destroy Israel. Hamas is fated to fail in its jihad to do so. The reason why this is so is because God is for Israel and will no let her be destroyed. For Israel is God’s “special treasure.”
For the Bible informs its reader “The Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself, Israel for His special treasure.” Psalm 135:4 [N.K.J.V.]
Walter Sieruk says
First, that demonic jihad entity, Hamas, with is jihadists, have no limits, at all, to its cruel heinous and vile horrendously horrific Islamic evils that it so maliciously commits.
Second. It should be made clear that The horrible reality is that taking into account the brutal cruel malicious Islamic character of the jihadists of Hamas, those hostages who had been kidnapped did suffer unconscionable abuse from those horrendously sadistic Hamas jihadists.
Such horrific treatment of those hostages is of no surprise when taking into account the demonic brutal cruel religion that Hamas has its foundation on, which of course is Islam, Surah 5:33. 9:123.
Walter Sieruk says
Those Jihadists of Hamas who viciously engaged in that vile heinous sex assaults and outright rapes as well as other malicious and murderous Islamic terrorist jihad attack against those peaceful young people at that music festival , on October 7th., are also horrendously heinous and vile by raping girls and women and brutally cruelly hateful and wickedly mutilating them are Muslim terrorists of the most abhorrent and despicable sort.
Those Hamas jihadists are an outright abomination.
Walter Sieruk says
The sad truth and terrible reality is that many times history repeats itself, as then evil happenings do reoccur.
As with that October 7th. 2023 murderous jihadists attacks against all those young people at that music festival, which was intended by the Israeli’s to be a joyful event but the vicious and death infecting jihadist of Hamas turned it into a tragic event.
Six years before that Islamic abomination occurred at that place in the State of Israel ,there was that murderous jihadist bombing at a music concert in the city of Manchester of the United Kingdom, the British of the city had intended that concert to be a joyful event but that vicious and death inflecting jihadist suicide/homicide bomber turned it into a tragic event.
The deluded dangerous deadly and demonic evils of Islam’s jihadists has no limit.
Walter Sieruk says
The terrible truth and harsh reality is that many times history repeats itself, as then evil happenings repeatedly do reoccur especially when it comes to the subject of the violent and deadly religion that is Islam.
As with that October 7th. 2023 murderous jihadists attacks against all those young people at that music festival, which was intended by the Israeli’s to be a joyful event but the vicious and death infecting jihadist of Hamas turned it into a tragic event.
Six years before that Islamic abomination occurred at that place in the State of Israel ,there was that murderous jihadist bombing at a music concert in the city of Manchester of the United Kingdom, the British of the city had intended that concert to be a joyful event but that vicious and death inflecting jihadist suicide/homicide bomber turned it into a tragic event.
The deluded dangerous deadly and demonic evils of Islam’s jihadists has no limit.
Walter Sieruk says
Those deadly Islamic terror/ jihadist affront attacks as those which happened on May 22,2017 in the United Kingdom and then on October 7th 2023 in the State of Israel are based Islam’s Qu’ran . As found in ,for example 2:191. 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4.
Therefore, an important question needs to and should be asked “Is the Qu ‘ran true or a religious hoax?”
Likewise, it’s also appropriated to ask ” Does the Qu’ ran have errors and contradictions in it ?
The answer to that question is found on pages 145 through 157 in THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey in which he wrote a section on the Qu‘ran with its self-contradictions. Just two of the many he cited are the following “The Qu’ran differs on whether a day is a thousand years or fifty thousand years in God’s sight’ and “Who was first to believe? Abraham or Moses [Sura 6:14 versus 7:143]? The above is inconsistent and illogical. Further, Morey wrote about “The fact that Judaism and Christianity broke up into different sects was used in the Qu ‘ran to prove that they are not of God [Suras 30:20-32. 42:13, 14]. Yet Islam has broken up into many warring sects and therefore cannot be true if the Quran is right.”
Moreover, Morey in his book shows many more contradictions and absurdities in the Quran, there are and how Muhammad incorporated extra Biblical and Jewish folklore along with pre-Islamic Arabian myth and parts of Zoroastrian and Hindu stories into the Quran.
Furthermore, the Muslims claim that “the Quran is the direct, literal word of God unmodified in any way by the Prophet who uttered them at the bidding of God.” In addition , in the book UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet Caner and Eethi Caner has shown that the Quran was modified in the following account on pages 45. “Muhammad felt the need to improve on the words of Allah, since he changed Allah’s wisdom for his own on several occasions. A hadith tells of the nonchalant emendations of Muhammad:’ On a number of occasions he [a scribe] had, with the Prophet’s consent changed the closing words of verses. For example, when the prophet had said ‘God is mighty and wise ‘ Adbollah b. Abi Sarh suggested writing down ‘Knowing and wise’ and the Prophet answered that there was no objection. Having observed a succession of changes of this type, Adbollah renounced Islam on the grounds that revelations, if from God could not be changed at the prompting of a scribe such as himself. After his apostasy he went to Mecca and joined the Qorayshites.’ Other writers reveal that later Muhammad and his people did go war with the Qorayshites and he personally killed Abdollah. Obviously Abdollah knew too much and Muhammad wanted Abdollah’s knowledge to die with him.”
In conclusion, the Qu ‘ran is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.
Sheploo says
Qu’ran is just a sad imitation dipped in hatred and blood. Change my mind.