{"id":2393465,"date":"2025-01-21T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/evil-hamas-gave-freed-hostages-an-absolutely-sick-parting-gift-bag-they-will-never-forget\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T20:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T01:06:12","slug":"evil-hamas-gave-freed-hostages-an-absolutely-sick-parting-gift-bag-they-will-never-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/evil-hamas-gave-freed-hostages-an-absolutely-sick-parting-gift-bag-they-will-never-forget\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil: Hamas Gave Freed Hostages an Absolutely Sick Parting &#8216;Gift Bag&#8217; They Will Never Forget"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fevil-hamas-gave-freed-hostages-an-absolutely-sick-parting-gift-bag-they-will-never-forget%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2393465&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A cease-fire\u2063 agreement was reached to end the 15-month Israel-Hamas war, allowing the \u200crelease of three hostages taken by Hamas during the attacks on October 7, 2023. The women released were Romi Gonen, Doron Steinbrecher,\u2062 and Emily Tehila Damari, who were widely recognized in Israel and\u200b for whom the public had been campaigning fervently for their return.<\/p>\n<p>In exchange for\u2062 the hostages, Israel agreed to release 90 \u200cPalestinian prisoners, raising concerns about the imbalance\u200b of the deal.The released women were reportedly given\u2064 &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oscars-gift-bags-are-worth-over-100k-include-trips-to-scottish-castle\/\" title=\"Oscars Gift Bags Are Worth Over 0k, Include Trips to Scottish Castle\">gift bags<\/a>&#8221; by \u200cHamas, wich contained mementos from their captivity, including a map \u2064of the Gaza Strip and photographs, further highlighting the controversial nature of their release. The treatment and exploitation they experienced \u2062during their captivity were apparent, with the women denouncing the gifts as a \u2062&#8221;cynical game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The\u200d article underscores the complexity of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-hamas-cease-fire-leads-to-13-hostages-being-released\/\" title=\"13 hostages were released following the Israel-Hamas cease-fire\">cease-fire deal<\/a> and\u200c emphasizes the moral and ethical dilemmas surrounding \u200cthe\u2064 treatment of \u200bhostages and prisoners in the ongoing conflict.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Just a reminder: A <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">cease-fire agreement doesn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t make Hamas any less evil, even if they&rsquo;re releasing hostages.<\/p>\n<p>After a hold-up on Sunday, the fragile agreement ending the 15-month Israel-Hamas war took effect, with the first group of three hostages taken by the terror group during the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks being handed over from their captivity in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The three female <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-israeli-forces-rescue-hostages-hamas-stronghold-daring-operation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hostages<\/a> were 24-year-old Romi Gonen, a waitress who was taken from the music festival the terrorists slaughtered their way through; Doron Steinbrecher, a 31-year-old Israeli-Romanian veterinary nurse taken from her apartment on a kibbutz; and Emily Tehila Damari, a 28-year-old British-Israeli woman taken from the same kibbutz.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Their faces are well known in Israel, where posters calling for them to be brought home line streets, highways and bridges,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/middle-east\/who-israeli-hostages-released-hamas-gaza-efdfd57f?st=FVHqut&amp;reflink=article_imessage_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> noted.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In Tel Aviv, people gathered at a plaza dubbed Hostage Square holding pictures of the three women as they waited for word of their release and watched it live on a large screen. As footage of the women appeared on the screen, many in the crowd began to cry.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>For swapping the three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/house-democrat-pushes-biden-give-obama-official-role-desperate-bid-free-hostages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">innocent women<\/a>, 90 Palestinian prisoners were to be released by Israel, just in case you&rsquo;d forgotten how unbalanced this agreement really was.<\/p>\n<p>And in case you thought the release was any better, consider the &ldquo;gift bag&rdquo; the women received as a parting reminder of their captivity.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/breaking-news\/article-838279\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerusalem Post<\/a>, the bags included photos from the terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Hamas gave the survivors &lsquo;certificates of release,&rsquo; and made them pose and smile with them before the women were transferred to Red Cross custody.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hamas made a propaganda film about the release of the three women they kidnapped over a year ago. They gave them &lsquo;gift bags&rsquo; with certificates inside. Like they were on a student exchange from Hell. This is one of the SICKEST things I&rsquo;ve ever seen. Monsters. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iuqlmi8D0c\">pic.twitter.com\/iuqlmi8D0c<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Heidi Bachram &#127895;&#65039; (@HeidiBachram) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeidiBachram\/status\/1881078443817025845?\">January 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>  &ldquo;The representatives of the Red Cross that collected the three women signed the documents, as seen in the video.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The bag included &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/melania-trump-returns-to-political-spotlight-drops-announcement-as-election-nears-my-perspective-the-truth\/\" title=\"Melania Trump Returns to Political Spotlight, Drops Announcement as Election Nears - &#039;My Perspective, The Truth&#039;\">memoirs&#038;rdquo<\/a>; such as a map of the Gaza Strip, photos of them while they were in captivity, and other certificates.<\/p>\n<p>The certificates included a &ldquo;release decision&rdquo; inscription.<\/p>\n<p>All three women called the bags a &ldquo;cynical game,&rdquo; which is an understatement of the highest degree.<\/p>\n<p>And that wasn&rsquo;t the only outrage. Consider the fact that even up to the moment of release, their captors still subjected the women to terror, forcing them to run a gauntlet of minatory pro-Hamas revelers:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hamas is pure evil. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bbSPeLSeoc\">https:\/\/t.co\/bbSPeLSeoc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1881015252055449663?\">January 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So, just to make the sequence of events clear: After 15 months of captivity in which the women were kidnapped, starved, psychologically tortured, and heaven knows what else &mdash; that sordid information will doubtlessly become available in the weeks to come &mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-effect-senior-hamas-official-wants-immediate-end-war-finding-47th-us-president-will\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hamas<\/a> and\/or its allies decided that these women needed a &ldquo;gift bag&rdquo; to remind them of over 460 days of pure hell.<\/p>\n<p>And for that act of &ldquo;diplomacy,&rdquo; 90 Palestinian prisoners &mdash; who generally weren&rsquo;t just arrested for laughs, mind you &mdash; were released.<\/p>\n<p>If you need&nbsp;<em>anything<\/em> that tells you how poxed this deal is, that&rsquo;s it. Imagine this being done to your mother, sister, or daughter. You&rsquo;d demand the barbarians who did it were wiped out. If Hamas isn&rsquo;t at least removed from power in Gaza permanently and its leaders held to account for their crimes, this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-cease-fire-talks-trouble-hamas-official-losing-faith-us-mediator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cease-fire agreement<\/a> is clearly doomed from the get-go.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Following a delay on Sunday, the tenuous deal concluding the 15-month Israel-Hamas conflict began, resulting in the first group of three hostages taken during the October 7, 2023 attacks being freed from Gaza. The three women\u2014Romi Gonen, Doron Steinbrecher, and Emily Tehila Damari\u2014are well-known in Israel due to widespread calls for their return. In Tel Aviv&#8217;s Hostage Square, crowds gathered with their photos as they awaited news of their release and watched it unfold on a large screen; many were moved to tears upon seeing them.<\/p>\n<p>In exchange for these three innocent women, Israel was set to release 90 Palestinian prisoners\u2014a stark reminder of how lopsided this agreement is. Additionally, upon their release, the women received &#8220;gift bags&#8221; that included photos from their captors and certificates that seemed more like propaganda than genuine goodwill. The Red Cross representatives who collected them signed documents as shown in videos documenting this event.<\/p>\n<p>The contents of these bags included maps and photographs from their time in captivity along with certificates detailing their &#8220;release.&#8221; The women described receiving these items as part of a &#8220;cynical game,&#8221; which hardly captures its true nature. Even at the moment they were released, they faced intimidation from pro-Hamas supporters lining the streets.<\/p>\n<p>To summarize: After enduring over 15 months of abduction and suffering\u2014including starvation and psychological torment\u2014the captors thought it appropriate to provide these women with reminders of their ordeal alongside releasing numerous Palestinian prisoners who had been detained for serious offenses. This situation highlights how deeply flawed this arrangement is; if such an atrocity happened to your loved ones, you would demand justice against those responsible. Without significant consequences for Hamas or accountability for its leaders&#8217; actions, any cease-fire agreement seems destined to fail from the outset<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2393466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Hostage-photo-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12733,48966,13022,21509],"class_list":["post-2393465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-evil","tag-gift-bag","tag-hamas","tag-hostages"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Hostage-photo-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2393465"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2393469,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393465\/revisions\/2393469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2393466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2393465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2393465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2393465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}