Hamas macabre handover of hostage remains shows how hate rules all Gaza

Hamas made a sickening spectacle of Thursday’s handover of the remains of two toddlers, their mother and another hostage — weaponizing even this into what the terrorists surely see as a “propaganda victory.”Yet the civilized world can only take the macabre affair as more evidence that hate rules Gazan society.Rather than allow a simple, dignified transfer of the remains of innocents, the terrorists staged a twisted parade of the coffins in a Khan Younis cemetery before a crowd of cheering civilians.In the face of such scenes, you have to ask: How should we define Hamas? Is it only the goons with green headbands — or everyone there enthusiastically joining in this vile travesty?Video of the original abduction of Shiri Bibas and her two little boys Kfir and Ariel has long stood as evidence of the horrific savagery of Hamas’ Oct.7, 2023 terror attacks.Now Hamas has offered fresh testimony to its own depravity by weaponizing the return of their bodies and that of Oded Lifshitz, 84.Grotesquely, it turns out that the terrorists didn’t actually even return Shiri’s remains.The sick stagecraft included a banner depicting Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu as a fanged, blood-stained vampire, plus labels on the coffins: For the dead boys, inscriptions claiming, “They were killed by USA bombs”; for the adults, messages declaring their “date of arrest” to have been Oct.

7, as if Hamas’ actions that day were anything but obscene atrocities.Get the most important developments in the region, globally and locally.

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Never miss a story.All of which confirms yet again that Hamas must be eradicated — but what of the Gazans who watched and cheered on Thursday? The grim truth is that the world allowed — and the United Nations assisted — Arab governments to spend the decades af...