All 59 Hostages Must be Returned Immediately & the War Must End Now
October 7th has been reduced to a hostage crisis demanding an immediate ransom settlement. Hamas et al must be permanently disarmed and banned from politics.
How is this a question for debate? AYFKM? Are you okay? FFS.
Yes, indeed the hostages and the ransom to secure their release is the most important and pressing issue now. Nothing else matters until all hostages are returned. There is nothing war can fix and much it can break, and Netanyahu’s war has cost too much in human terms and has yielded nothing we can celebrate as truly beneficial to Israelis, Palestinians, or the diasporas of both peoples, worldwide.
[Liri’s] captors would say things like, "They've forgotten about you. Netanyahu doesn't want you. Ben-Gvir wants you to die. The people of Israel no longer protest – you don't matter to anyone."
Perhaps, as Liri Albag has said in her recent interview with N12, are you gonna volunteer to be a hostage, Mr Rubenstein? Or maybe you’re feeling generous and will volunteer your parents or your children, or spouse, or siblings, or your neighbours, or your friends? Feel free to do that. Last time I checked human sacrifice wasn’t a thing humans did anymore, there’s this thing called modernity and civility. You ought to try it out.
The disaster happened on your watch. You ordered him there; you abandoned him there. Israeli citizenship is worthless. You should get down on all fours and crawl to bring him home from Gaza. — Yotam Cohen, brother of IDF soldier and Hamas hostage Nimrod Cohen, speaking to Israel's legislators.
The hostage families are camped out now at the gates of the Kirya IDF Military Headquarters in Tel Aviv because they are sick of the stalling of Netanyahu and the sick antics of their depraved government regime, which has decided to make hostages sacrificial offerings for the Netanyahu war effort.
The Akedah story in the Torah makes it pretty clear that human sacrifice is not a Jewish value. The Talmud teaches that a life is a universe—each life matters. When you take a life, you destroy a universe. When you save a life, you save a universe. Life does not belong to us, it belongs to g-d. Who are you or I, reader, to take it upon ourselves to put asunder and destroy human life and familial bonds g-d has made into being? We are nothing in the face of the sanctity of life and the familial and community bonds that nourish and guard them.
Over the weekend Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen announced he was shutting off electricity to the Gaza Strip. Consider the fact that Israel hasn’t supplied water or electricity to Gaza since October 2023, and consider reports that the desalination plant in Gaza at risk of being shut down isn’t relied upon for drinking water, which is supplied through bottled water. This move becomes like a man-baby performance, a geopolitical mantrum in a series of mantrums waged by both sides of the Hamas—Netanyahu conflict since October 7, 2023. The current man-baby geopolitical conflict and war game holds all of humanity by our gonads.
“When humanitarian aid didn't come in, you could feel it," [Liri] added. "Suddenly, it was just one pita and some days just a quarter of a pita. There were days when we drank salty water because there was no fresh water.”
59 hostages remain in Gaza, 24 are alive and enduring barbaric and horrifying conditions and cruelty, including torture and starvation. And warmongering assholes are so enamoured with their own position that they cannot see the reality that’s before them. It’s weak and lazy to offer up other people’s children for sacrifice in your holy crusade against a terrorist entity that Netanyahu has literally courted for the better part of two decades. Big tough blokes are gonna throw peace loving 20-something year olds at their quest for a Kahanist victory? Can we not? It’s lame.
That the Israeli regime would abandon soldiers to the terrorist enemy reveals a deep depravity of the regime decision makers. It reveals a character unworthy to govern, it’s morally bankrupt. Doesn’t Israel have a No Soldier Left Behind rule? Didn’t we see Israel release over a thousand recidivist criminals and terrorists in 2011 to free a single soldier named Gilad Shalit? So, what is different now? Why has the Netanyahu regime abandoned its soldiers to the Hamas dungeon of hell? Of the 24 hostages named below, 5 were serving in an IDF capacity when Hamas captured them.
As you can see from the video clip below, the Netanyahu regime has zero fcuks to give for the hostages still in cruel torturous abusive captivity.
In Canada we are experiencing a massive uprise in Islamist extremism and outright calls for jihad holy war and intifada. It’s the most frightening and extreme social situation I have ever seen in my 56 years of life in my country. People come to Canada to escape that, how did we get to this point? At any rate, we forget that this is candy compared with what Israelis experience. I have never been in a safe room or a bomb shelter. I have never heard bomb sirens. We live a sheltered life here in Canada, even with the rise in violent crime and terrorist rhetoric. We forget, unless connected to the hostages or victims of the massacre, that humans are being held in horrific conditions. They are being deprived of water, food, light, freedom, safety. They are in hell we cannot imagine.
Translation of the Hebrew — Saving Matan and everyone :: The struggle of Einav Tsengauker
“It broke us," [Liri] said. "It was very difficult to think that there were people who were truly willing to sacrifice us. Why? What did I do? Am I to blame for being taken hostage?”
Meet the Humans Bibi and His Man-Baby Regime Want to Sacrifice
Yes, they are humans, not pawns on a geopolitical chess board. They are someone’s child, spouse, brother, husband, father, friend. They aren’t expendable. Every mantrum Bibi and his extremist regime has, every performance of aggression they make, costs in human terms — the hostages pay. To make it real for readers, here’s the human element, these are the victims of 7.10 who are largely forgotten. Here are the names and details of human beings taken hostage by Hamas and their allied terrorist groups — the man-baby mantrum geopolitics cult wants to sacrifice these humans for their idea of a victory. Source for the list is Jewish News of California, corroborated by multiple sources, including the hostage family forum.
Edan Alexander: A New Jersey native, Alexander, 20, joined the Israel Defense Forces after graduating from high school and is the only American citizen thought to remain alive among the hostages. He was captured while serving near the Gaza border. Hamas released a video showing Alexander speaking to the camera in November. His parents attended President Donald Trump’s address to Congress.
Matan Angrest: Angrest, 23, appeared in a video released by Hamas in July 2024. His family released an image of Angrest in captivity after the end of the cease-fire’s first phase. They said released hostages had disclosed that he was being chained and beaten in captivity.
Rom Braslavski: Braslavski, 21, was abducted while working as a security guard at the Nova music festival during a break in his army service. His family had received no sign of life until newly released hostage Sasha Trufanov said he had formed a friendship with Braslavski in Gaza.
Nimrod Cohen: Cohen, 19, was captured from a tank on his base near the Gaza border. His family received both a message from Nimrod through a released hostage — “I’m OK, don’t worry, I love you,” they said he said — as well as visual evidence of his state. Though his face was obscured in a video Hamas released showing hostages bidding farewell to Yair Horn, who was freed in February in the first phase of the cease-fire, Nimrod’s parents recognized his tattoo.
Tamir Nimrodi: Nimrodi, 20 on Oct. 7, was marched into Gaza from his base, where he was serving as an education officer. His family has gotten no signs of life for him since his abduction.
“There were moments when the whole building shook. The blast would wake you from sleep. There was one time when a very loud boom was so close, we couldn't fall asleep from the shock.”
Gali Berman: Like his twin brother, Gali Berman, 27, was kidnapped from his home on Kibbutz Kfar Aza.
Ziv Berman: Like his twin brother, Ziv Berman, 27, was kidnapped from his home on Kibbutz Kfar Aza. A relative said they had received a sign of life for both brothers — the only remaining living hostages from their ravaged kibbutz — during the first phase of the current cease-fire.
Elkana Bohbot: Abducted from the Nova music festival, Bohbot, 34, was filmed being beaten before he was taken to Gaza. His family — which includes a young son — received the first sign of life for Bohbot during the first phase of the current cease-fire. His parents said he expressed hope, through a freed hostage, that they are continuing to hold a market stall where he planned to open an ice cream shop; they are.
Yosef-Chaim Ohana: Taken hostage from the Nova music festival, Ohana, 24, reportedly aided festival-goers before being abducted. His family said in February 2025 that it had gotten a “clear indication” that Ohana was alive.
Ariel Cunio: Taken hostage with his girlfriend from Kibbutz Nir Oz, Cunio, 27, is half of one of multiple sibling pairs who remain in Gaza. His mother said in August 2024 that she had gotten a sign of life from him and his brother. His partner Arbel Yehud was released in the first phase of the cease-fire after being held without any contact with other Israelis for nearly 500 days.
David Cunio: Cunio, the brother of Ariel Cunio, 34, was taken hostage from his home along with his wife, their twin daughters, his sister-in-law and her daughter. All were released in November 2023 except for him. After the August 2024 sign of life, his wife said the family received another in February 2025. “David is alive,” Sharon Aloni Cunio told Channel 12 news. “And that gives us so much strength and so much air to breathe.”
Hostage survivor Ilana Gritzvski descends from the Begin Bridge in Tel Aviv as part of the hostage family sit-in at the MoD HQ. via We Are All Hostages.
Evyatar David: David, 24, was taken hostage at the Nova music festival along with his best friend, Guy Gilboa-Dalal. A sign of life came for him in February 2025 when Hamas brought him to view other hostages being released.
Guy Gilboa-Dalal: Gilboa-Dalal, 23, was taken hostage at the Nova music festival along with his best friend, Evyatar David. He appeared alongside David in the video released by Hamas of the pair watching other hostages be released and realizing that they would not be.
Maxim Herkin: Abducted from the Nova music festival, Herkin, 36, had returned from visiting his native Ukraine a week before Oct. 7. He was born in the war-torn Donbas region, which is part of Ukraine but claimed by Russia, and has a daughter who lives in Russia, so Russia is advocating for his release. A Hamas official told Russian state media that it would determine Herkin’s fate in the second phase of a deal.
Eitan Horn: Horn, 38, was abducted while visiting his older brother, who was released in the first phase of the deal. Hamas released a video showing Horn pleading for an end to the war as his brother Yair was taken from him to be released in February 2025.
Bipin Joshi: A Nepalese farmworker, Joshi, 23, was seen alive on footage filmed at Al-Shifa Hospital on Oct. 7, 2023. Nepal had reportedly expected him to be released alongside the Thai hostages freed during the cease-fire’s first phase.
Segev Kalfon: Kalfon, 27, was taken hostage from the Nova music festival. A first sign of life came from released hostages in February 2025.
Bar Kupershtein: Kupershtein, 21, was abducted from the Nova music festival, where he was working. His family said no released hostages have reported seeing him in Gaza. Bar’s father Tal sustained a brain injury several years ago and lost the ability to speak and he learned to speak so he could call for the release of his son.
Omri Miran: Miran was taken hostage in his own car in front of his wife and young children. He appeared alive in a video released by Hamas in April 2024, and a new sign of life was received in February 2025.
Eitan Mor: Taken hostage while working as a security guard at the Nova festival. A friend with whom he was abducted was found dead in Gaza, but a sign of life was received for him during the first phase of the cease-fire.
Alon Ohel: Ohel, 23, was one of four Nova festival-goers to emerge alive from a shelter where 16 others were killed. The first sign of his life came after other hostages were released on Feb. 8. His mother said she had been told that he was being chained, starved and beaten in captivity.
Avinatan Or: The boyfriend of Noa Argamani, who was rescued from Hamas captivity in June 2024, Or, 31, was one of the first Israelis to be seen in footage of an abduction. His family said they received multiple signs of life for Or but none since the spring of 2024.
Matan Zangauker: Abducted with his partner from their Nir Oz home, Zangauker has maintained prominence because of the aggressive advocacy of his mother Einav, who was briefly banned from the Knesset because of her demonstrations. His partner was released from captivity in Gaza in November 2023. When Yair Horn was released, Hamas forced him to hold an hourglass attached to a base with a picture of Zangauker and his mother, with the message, “Time is running out.”
One Thai hostage named Nattapong Pinta remains unaccounted for, after the release of five others on 30 January 2025.
Shift 101 in front of the Kirya IDF Military Headquarters in Tel Aviv in silent calls for the release of all remaining hostages. 📸 Credit: Zohar Bar-Yehuda Via: We Are All Hostages.
It’s Purim this week, beginning Thursday evening and continuing thru to Friday evening. The festival of Purim commemorates the Divinely orchestrated salvation of the Jewish people in the ancient Persian Empire from Haman’s plot “to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews, young and old, infants and women, in a single day.” It is celebrated with Megillah readings, gifts of food, charity, feasting, and merriment.1 During Purim Jews are instructed to feel and celebrate joy. The giving of gift baskets as a Purim custom traditionally promotes joy.
A Token for Your Neglect of Hostages, write Hostages' Families to Israeli MKs2, as they give the MKs Purim gift baskets containing a single pita. However these particular packages convey the opposite of joy — they remind MKs of the anguish of families still waiting for their relatives to be released from cruel and horrifying captivity. Stories of hostages have made their way into the public sphere. Many hostages bear visible physical signs of torture, many report having suffered beatings and torture. Omer Shem-Tov spend two birthdays in Hamas captivity, one social media post on a hostage family account told of Omer received beatings with a pipe or similar object to his head on his first birthday and then by his second birthday he did not even wish for home, only for a reprieve from the beatings. The world saw the cruelty exhibited with the release of hostages and the sick way Hamas paraded child coffins around and we saw the desecration of a Palestinian woman who was placed in the coffin labeled Shiri Bibas. Life means nothing to Hamas and the Islamist terrorist consortium supporting Hamas. It means nothing to anyone not tormented in their heart and soul and mind about this egregious thing happening now, still.
There are 59 humans beings being held against their will by Hamas in underground dungeons. Release them all now. 🎗️
During the first hostage release deal, Omer was unaware that his fellow captive, Itay Regev—the younger brother of his close friend, Maya—had been freed … Following Regev’s departure, Hamas terrorists transferred Omer [Shem-Tov] to a deeper and longer tunnel, where he was confined to a cramped, underground cell. “It was so small he couldn’t even stand or stretch his arms,” Malki said. “No electricity, complete darkness, except for a small flashlight whose batteries would sometimes die, leaving him in total blackness.” After 50 days, Hamas moved Omer again—this time to a different tunnel, still alone but in a slightly larger space. The walls were lined with white tiles, creating an illusion of light. “Apparently, even in hell, there are degrees of suffering,” Malki said, his voice tinged with bitter humor. — Ynetnews
If you are defending this treatment, if your religion or your cultural identity or your politics demand that you excuse and defend or dismiss this abuse of a human, I pity you because you are truly lost from yourself.
Via Chabad dot org
MK stands for Member of Knesset, Knesset is the equivalent of the House of Commons here in Canada.