Today, three more Israeli hostages found their way to freedom along with five Thai nationals who were released in a separate agreement from the Israel-Hamas ceasefire.
The first to be released was IDF soldier Agam Berger who was forced to stand in front of the same anti-Semitic banner which four other IDF soldiers stood in front of last Saturday.
Then came release of the seven remaining hostages - Israelis Arbel Yehoud and Gadi Mozes along with Thai agricultural workers Thenna Pongsak, Sathian Suwannakham, Sriaoun Watchara, Seathao Bannawat, and Rumnao Surasak.
The release of Yehoud and Mozes, who were held by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, proved to be the most difficult. Both hostages were forced to walk through a crowd surrounded by angry Palestinians eager for Hamas or Islamic Jihad to kill them on the spot.
The look on Yehoud's face laid bare the cruelty of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Palestinian society at large which operates on the very hatred of Jews. Yehoud was supposed to have been released last Saturday. The manner in which she the other hostages were released on top of the delay prompted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to temporarily delay the release of Palestinian terrorists.
I don't know if it will be sufficient for Hamas to release the next group of hostages in a more humane way. After all, there is nothing humane about Hamas. They demonstrate whether they take a person hostage and when they release that hostage from captivity.
Yes, there are 8 more hostages who now get to live their lives, and this is a very good thing.
I have an awful feeling that one of these days, ceasefire agreement notwithstanding, that one of the living hostages is going to be killed by a Palestinian mob while Hamas looks on while looking the other way.
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