https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-18/us-says-hamas-must-release-hostages-for-gaza-to-get-more-aid
POW/MIA all over again. Israel has made this impossible by burying half of these people under a mountain of rubble. This provides convenient justification for continuing the depraved starvation.
Is there even a complete list of hostages anywhere?
Also, even if all other hostages of unknown status were alive and well in some secret Hamas base, they’re asking Hamas to get rid of its only bargaining chip in exchange for an unreliable promise to possibly pull the knife out 1 nanometer as the knife of being denied human rights continues to push itself in under its own gravity