A little hasbara: Hostage Release

We start with a photo that Boris Johnson retweeted

What a picture of Hamas – thousands of armed young men jeering these brave, defenceless and totally innocent women. How is that supposed to promote reconciliation? https://t.co/AM9izWb9pS

— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) January 19, 2025

Let’s see how they jeer, lying Boris Johnson!
So here is the security detail before the exchange of hostages from one car to another. That black car is going to move in next to the white car. The Hamas security detail is clearing the area. Al-Qassam Brigades brought out a full battalion for security.

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🔻Dispositivo de seguridad de Al-Qassam en la previa de la liberación de rehenes

🔻Al-Qassam security detail prior to hostage release pic.twitter.com/ioC2P1xuPi

— Ares, Information Service (@Aresinfoservice) January 19, 2025

Check the exchange. Hamas is in a phalanx of perhaps 15 deep around the area. Correct, they don’t know if someone is going to try and kill those hostage. Surrounded by Hamas fighters, the fighter helps the hostages out of the vehicle and the transfer is quick into the other vehicle. Afterward, the Hamas fighter steps back and scans his environment, and the space between the two cars is quickly filled by a phalanx of Hamas soldiers, protecting the vehicle with the hostages with their bodies and not allowing anyone else near. IDF soldiers jump off the roof of the transfer car where they were stationed and Hamas soldiers take over the position, jumping on the roof of the vehicle, and covers the crowds, until the vehicle departs.

Here is the process again from a different angle and here you can see the happy handover of the gift bags.

Hamas has published footage of the first batch of female Israeli captives released to the Red Cross

Compare their physical condition and demeanor to Palestinians released from Israeli dungeons, where they were systematically tortured and even sodomized pic.twitter.com/wLMF4LBrhi

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) January 19, 2025

Here is disembarkation with the with their gift bags

Those three hostages look healthy, smiling and happy in photos taken the rest of the day with family and others.

Now as Blunmenthal says, lets take a look at the Palestinian returnees from Israeli jails. Today it was women and children.

https://t.me/PalestineResist/71786

Occupation forces are making prisoners’ families wait for hours in Beitunia near Ofer prison for their deliberately delayed release. Now they are firing rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas on the families waiting for their loved ones.

No Palestinian prisoner has been released yet, although they should have been released at the time the Palestinian resistance handed over the three Israeli female prisoners, according to the Qatari, Egyptian and American mediators. The families of the prisoners are upset that no one has informed them of the time of release, although they have been waiting since the morning hours without any news.