(Day 499) Swords of Iron – “How were the Hostages Treated?”

Chaim starts the video talking about all the terrible things the hostages held in Gaza must have gone through. He says they were held in really unhealthy conditions in tunnels with lice and other insects, mold, etc. He says that Hamas not only kept them in foul conditions, they also subjected them to mental and emotional torment. They were very poorly fed and otherwise mistreated. All of this is just more proof that Hamas cannot be allowed to govern the Gaza Strip, and even the Egyptians have made this clear to them. There are plans being made to facilitate their removal from the Gaza Strip, but this will take time.

Chaim notes that there are still skirmishes and airstrikes against Hamas positions when it is obvious they’re in the process or about to break the cease-fire agreements, but for the most part, the cease-fire is holding. It makes him stop and ask how we got to this point. Part of the answer to that question comes from UNRWA, and the rest of the UN, which has perpetuated the problems it was originally formed to solve.

Chaim says that something needs ot change, and in this context he quotes Isaiah 46:13; I bring My righteousness near, it shall not be far off; My salvation shall not linger. And I will place salvation in Zion, for Israel My glory.