Israeli hostage freed after 491 days asks: Where was the United Nations, the Red Cross, the world?

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1. > “I was treated worse than an animal,” says Sharabi.

   >“The chains they kept me in tore into my skin from the moment I entered until the moment I was released,” he continues. “Begging became my existence.”

   >Sharabi says that just before his release, Hamas showed him a picture of his murdered brother, Yossi, laughing as they told him of his death. Yossi’s body is still being held in Gaza.

   >Sharabi adds that during his time in captivity he received no help from ordinary Gazans or international organizations.

   >“No one in Gaza helped me. The civilians saw us suffering and they cheered our kidnappers. They were definitely involved,”

   >“Where was the Red Cross? Where was the United Nations?” he asks.

   https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/i-was-treated-worse-than-an-animal-freed-hostage-eli-sharabi-tell-un-of-his-captivity/

2. Where was his own government? Why didn’t they immediately begin working on negotiating an exchange? Why did they cut of food and water supplies for the hostages? Why did they bomb some of the hostages? Why didn’t his own people place the highest priority on his return?

3. >“Where was the United Nations? Where was the Red Cross? Where was the world?” Sharabi asked.

   He has to be an utter idiot to believe Israel would let them into Gaza.

   >He challenged the U.N.’s most powerful body: “If you stand for humanity prove it” by bringing home the 59 hostages still in Gaza, many of whom are believed to be dead. 

   Again, there’s a giant Israel-shaped obstacle blocking the way.

4. How this guy and presumably the other hostages were treated is against international law on the treatment of prisoners, I’m pretty sure. Kidnapping people for any reason is fucked up.

   I will point out that 

   a) where the UN and Red Cross were was “being shot at by the IDF until they left Gaza”.
   b) Israel and Hamas were working on an agreement to free hostages and rebuild Gaza until Israel broke the ceasefire which was making it possible
   c) Sde Teiman

5. Starved he says… I have seen Palestinian people released by Israel in much worse condition than him… he is complaining the people Israel was starving didn’t have enough food to feed him enough to stay fat, sorry pal but you know exactly who is to blame for that one.

6. The UN, Red Cross, and other international NGOs had envoys, caravans, and volunteers that were directly targeted and eliminated by the IOF. Any other questions?

7. The United Nations is run by the kind of people who say they fight slavery when they own slaves. The Red Cross is impotent and remaining neutral means not getting involved in things like that. The world wants as little to do with that shitstorm because no one is right and everyone is wrong in that conflict.

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