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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF says Hamas video purporting to show 3 hostages being released is propaganda
2023-10-13
[IsraelTimes] Footage appears to show Avital Aladjem, from Kibbutz Holit, freed at Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
border along with neighbor’s children; IDF: Footage is days old, from shortly after abduction


The Israel Defense Forces Arabic-language spokesperson said Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
was trying to "alter the truth" of its brutal massacre Saturday with footage broadcast by Al Jazeera claiming to show a woman and her two children being released from the terror group’s captivity.

Al Jazeera on Wednesday broadcast the footage, portraying it as new footage of Hamas releasing hostages.

However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk...
the military said the video was several days old and the incident occurred on Saturday at the height of Hamas’s devastating onslaught on southern communities.

The video showed a woman, Avital Aladjem, in a blue and pink jacket walking toward a child and the two embracing, as button men walk away. She is said to be holding a second child.

They appear to be near the Gaza border fence.

The airing of the footage appeared to demonstrate Hamas’s efforts to deflect the world’s gaze from the brutality of its devastating onslaught Saturday, when Paleostinian snuffies rampaged through the south of Israel slaughtering some 1,300 people, the vast majority of them civilians, and abducting at least 100 captives to Gaza. Some 3,000 were maimed.

In an interview with Channel 12 Wednesday, Aladjem recounted her harrowing experience with Hamas terrorists.

She said she was hiding out in her home’s safe room with one neighbor and communicating with her next-door neighbor, Adi Vital-Kaploun, via WhatsApp, when Hamas snuffies blew up Aladjem’s front door and entered the house at 1:30 p.m. Saturday.

The women dashed to hide from the terrorists. The neighbor who was hiding together with Aladjem was discovered by the button men, shot, and killed. Aladjem was also found and pulled out of the closet where she was hiding. The button men then brought her Vital-Kaploun’s children from next door, ages 4.5 months and 4, and began walking the three of them through the kibbutz.

Adi Vital-Kaploun, a dual Israeli-Canadian citizen, was killed by the terrorists, her relatives told Canadian media on Thursday.

In an act that "certainly saved their lives," Vital-Kaploun told her father and her husband to stay where they were, and not to come to them, her cousin-in-law, Aaron Smith, said in an interview with CBC Radio’s Ottawa Morning. "And however she was able to convince the snuffies that murdered her to take her kids to her neighbor — she saved their lives as well. She’s a hero."

Said Aladjem: "Everything was destroyed and full of blood; they took us from house to house with shooting all around, as they burned the houses and the cars."

"Me and the kids and the terrorists," said Aladjem, weeping as she spoke. "’Quick, quick,’ they kept saying."

After the snuffies brought Aladjem and the children into Gaza, they left them standing alone. Thinking on her feet, Aladjem turned around with the children and began walking with them back to the kibbutz. She passed more button men and hid with the children in the sand dunes, slowly making her way back.
Not released by Hamas so much as quietly took French leave.
"We continued and continued and I believed we’d get back home," she said, adding that she had no idea how much time had passed.

When they entered the kibbutz, Aladjem saw other kibbutz members leaving in their cars and told the 4-year-old that he would see his father soon.

The three were taken to the nearby community of Gvulot, where the children were eventually reunited with their father.
Posted by:trailing wife

#4  ^^If they were alive, we'd see videos of hostages calling on Israeli Gov not to bomb.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-10-13 05:23  

#3  ^IMO, hostages were killed immediately after being paraded through the streets of Gaza.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-10-13 05:18  

#2  We’ve got that one here, Grom.
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-10-13 05:08  

#1  Next legend: hostages were killed by Israeli bombing.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-10-13 03:18  

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