[ April 20, 2026 ]
Like bloodthirsty hyenas.
Gazan civilians are lining up to harass the hostages one last time before they’re released. This is completely inhumane and a war crime. It’s clear these subhumans are torturing the Israeli public for sport. Destroying Gaza would be a great contribution to humanity.
Among a litany of human rights crimes and abuses, they paraded a severely mentally unwell Ethiopian man through the streets of Gaza. They held him hostage for ten years.
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Hamas on Saturday began to release all six remaining live Israeli hostages in exchange of 600 “Palestinian” prisoners as part of ceasefire deal.
The two newly freed hostages — Tal Shoham and Avera Mengistu — were received by members of terrorist proxy Red Cross at the handover site in Rafah in southern Gaza. Eliya Cohen, Omer Shem Tov and Omer Wenkert were released at a second location in the Gaza Strip later on Saturday. One heartbroken family finally received the remains of a mother murdered in terrorist captivity.
Hamas plans to release Hisham Al-Sayed in Gaza City — the third handover site — without a ceremony. He must be in a terrible state.
Update: Hostages were chained, starved, kept in pitch black; some return almost unresponsive (Times of Israel)
Four Israelis — Tal Shoham, Omer Shem Tov, Omer Wenkert, Eliya Cohen — who were freed from Hamas captivity on Saturday after more than 500 days in the Hamas terror group’s captivity were chained in the dark, starved, and psychologically abused in Gaza, they and their family members said upon their return.
ADVERTISEMENTTwo further hostages — Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed — who, suffering from mental illness, each entered the Gaza Strip of their own accord some 10 years ago — came home Saturday bearing evident psychological scars from their captivity, and were described by relatives as largely unresponsive upon their return.
FACT: Under the Geneva Conventions, ‘humiliating and degrading treatment,’ such as what Hamas is doing in parading the hostages on stage, is considered a gross violation of international law and a war crime.
Care to comment @ICRC, @KarimKhanQC? pic.twitter.com/nHyikWiyXV
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) February 22, 2025
Happening Now: “Gazan civilians” are lining up to harass the hostages one last time before they’re released.
This is completely inhumane and a war crime. pic.twitter.com/Q9c7DEF7JI
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) February 22, 2025
Once again, they’re beginning to gather like a pack of bloodthirsty hyenas in Gaza, to cheer on Hamas during the hostage release.
This really begs the question, are there civilians in Gaza? Or just accomplices? pic.twitter.com/dWx7JXXrv9
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) February 22, 2025
This is what Hamas did to released hostage Omer Wenkert. They had weeks to feed him in preparation for his release and he STILL looks horrifically emaciated. Don’t be fooled by the forced smiles. Hamas are evil. pic.twitter.com/TUiGbpuSb2
— Heidi Bachram 🎗️ (@HeidiBachram) February 22, 2025
There is no depths to the depravity of Hamas.
Here they are parading hostage Avera Mengistu, an Israeli with mental health issues, who has been held captive for over 10 years, in one last act of indignity.
And all under the watchful eye of the Red Cross … pic.twitter.com/rsO6Nh4Ht4
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) February 22, 2025
Hamas: We have been cut off from the world and don't have anything to feed our children
Also Hamas: Spare no expense to terrorize the hostages one last time pic.twitter.com/oOmPV2wiwa
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) February 22, 2025
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Are all the black people who marched against Israel for a year and a half watching as an Ethiopian Jewish man with mental illness is dehumanised and treated like a circus animal by his captors? pic.twitter.com/jfwZlikYGp
— 𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) February 22, 2025
After 500 days in hell, hostage Omer Wenkert is set to be shortly released from Gaza.
Never forget – This is how these Hamas monsters and savaged kidnapped him on Oct 7th from the Nova Music Festival. pic.twitter.com/Ir8zi0FJk2
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) February 22, 2025
BREAKING:
Avera Mengistu was just reunited with his family after TEN YEARS as a Hamas hostage in Gaza.
Mengistu, an Ethiopian Jew, suffers from mental illness and wandered into Gaza during a mental crisis. Hamas captured him & refused to send him home pic.twitter.com/qcmOAPwpq4
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) February 22, 2025
Tal Shoham reunited with his son after 505 days as a hostage in Gaza ❤️🩹 pic.twitter.com/HPEtY6SESW
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) February 22, 2025
Redemption of hostages:
The family of Tal Shoham at Beilinson Hospital, watching his release.
Video: Omer Miron / GPO
Photo: Haim Zach / GPO pic.twitter.com/mivJ3TpCFb— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) February 22, 2025
Hamas sources just told Al Jazeera that Bedouin-Israeli Hisham al-Sayed will be released without a ceremony out of "respect" for Arab-Israelis.
Two comments:
1) This is a tacit admission that the other ceremonies were, in fact, intentionally meant to humiliate and degrade the… pic.twitter.com/fDoW9LYpSf
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) February 22, 2025
Five of six hostages freed after 505 days in Hamas captivity
Eliya Cohen, Omer Shem Tov and Omer Wenkert , Avera Mengistu and Tal Shoham back on Israeli soil after staged handover ceremony; Hisham al-Sayed to be freed without public display
By: Ynet News, February 22, 2025:
Israeli hostages Eliya Cohen, Omer Shem Tov and Omer Wenkert were paraded onto a stage in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, alive and walking on their feet, as Hamas staged a ceremony for their release Saturday. The three appeared pale and had lost considerable weight during their 505 days in captivity.
Dressed in military uniforms, they were handed over to the Red Cross which was set to transfer them to the IDF for their return home after 16 months in Hamas captivity since their abduction from the Nova music festival during the October 7 massacre. On stage, Omer Shem Tov was seen kissing the foreheads of two of his captors.
Their families, waiting anxiously to see their loved ones alive, broke out in cheers.
Earlier, hostages Avera Mengistu and Tal Shoham were also released from captivity in a separate event in Rafah in southern Gaza.
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