Even the Israel-Hamas cease-fire brings crushing heartbreak
Mixed with the joy of hostage releases under the Israel-Hamas cease-fire are growing horrors.It’s not just the emaciation of the three men freed in the latest round, but the latest twist in Hamas’ twisted “release theater”: As the terrorists paraded Eli Sharabi onstage, they told him brother Yossi was killed in the Oct.7, 2023, attacks.And when Sharabi finally made it all the way home, he learned his wife Lianne and daughters Noiya and Yahel were also slaughtered the day of his kidnapping.To buy the freedom of Sharabi, Or Levy and Ohad Ben Ami, Israel released 183 Palestinians imprisoned for terrorism convictions — 18 from life sentences.Meanwhile, Al Jazeera reports that Hamas has agreed to hand over the bodies of Oct.
7 captives Shiri Bibas and her two children, Ariel and Kfir, once Israel gives the terrorists the equipment needed to excavate them from under heavy rubble.Other news outlets have yet to confirm the grim news about all three, but should they live (Kfir would now be 2 and Ariel 5), they should’ve already been handed over under the cease-fire protocols.Final word on their deaths would be one of the bitterest pills yet.Further twisting the knife, Palestinian Media Watch reports that the Palestinian Authority has paid a total of $141,837,087 to the 734 terrorists scheduled for release from Israeli prisons in the cease-fire’s first phase.That’s an average of nearly $200,000 apiece, delivered under the PA’s notorious “pay-for-slay” program, which rewards any Palestinian imprisoned for terrorism in Israel; the authority issues the funds even it means not paying its other bills, including employee payroll.Many world governments want the PA to take over government of Gaza, should Hamas actually be dislodged.Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email address.
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