Hamas reportedly wants to make it clear to the world that it still controls the Gaza Strip. Its strategy is to make the captive release a spectacle that Israel cannot halt.
About two weeks ago, the trend started when the first Israeli hostages were freed as part of a cease-fire deal that also frees Israeli-held Palestinian inmates.
The trucks used by Hamas to transport the Israeli hostages were surrounded by groups of individuals who were jeering.
Upon exiting, the women hurried to Red Cross representatives who were waiting in surrounding cars to transport them home.
The extremists increased the stakes on Thursday. Before the debris of the house of Yahya Sinwar, the now-dead mastermind of the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, they freed two civilian captives, an 80-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman.
With crowds lining up to welcome them and telephones out to take pictures of the prisoners, the hostages this time fought to get out of Hamas cars.
This time, there were no Red Cross trucks in the area, so the hostages had to make their way through crowds of people who appeared to be about to attack them.
Only their armed captors, who belonged to a terrorist organization listed by the United States, could safeguard the captives.
According to regional observers, Hamas is making every round of hostage releases in Gaza a more grandiose spectacle in an effort to show off its might and degrade its adversary, but it also poses a threat to the tenuous cease-fire in the region.
The exhibition sparked a ferocious response from Israel. It declared that the 110 Palestinian detainees who were to be released as part of the agreement would not be released.
The U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff was among the mediators who rushed to keep the agreement intact. The detainees were eventually freed by Israel.
Israelis in Tel Aviv’s Hostage Square, a temporary square, watched in disbelief on a large screen as the Palestinian mob raged at the hostages.
The pictures of prisoners in route to freedom, on the other hand, caused cries of delight to resound around the square.
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