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So, world, what do you think of your ‘resistance fighters’ now?

The sick handover of a dead family in Gaza today should have caused global uproar

February 20, 2025 17:06
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Terrorists at the site of the handover of hostage bodies including those of the Bibas family (Photo by SAEED JARAS/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
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So, world, what do you think of your “resistance fighters” now? 

There they were, masked men handing over the bodies of the Bibas family and Oded Lifshitz, stars of the own sick show. It was monstrous beyond description and should have been recognised for what it was: a tarnish on a world that allowed this to happen.

But they were taking part in live news, given their own chunk of airtime like one side of a “balanced” BBC argument. Here is Hamas, a “legitimate resistance force”, handing over dead babies. Now, cut to the crying Israelis. 

How did we get to this place? Emaciated hostages are handed back with “goodie bags", and the bodies of children and 84-year-old peace activists are described as a “prisoner exchange” – and people just accept it?