According to the UN, 84% of the buildings in the Gaza Strip have been destroyed by Israeli bombing (in some areas, like Gaza City, this rises to 92%). Most of the enclave consists of masonry rubble, many metres thick.
And Hamas is somehow supposed to find the remaining 19 dead bodies of the missing Israeli hostages?
Frankly, I'm surprised they have been able to find as many as they have, and to have kept so many alive under the constant bombardment.
I feel for the relatives of those whose bodies have still not been recovered. But to use this as an excuse to continue bombing, as Netanyahu has vowed, just seems wrong.
I think that Hamas has kept their end of the bargain in good faith insofar as they are able. An end to the hostilities is more important than a handful of individuals. 68,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel over the last two years; how many more thousands are to be sacrificed for the sake of some dead bodies?
That may sound callous, but not half as callous as authorizing further killings in the pursuit of an impossible task.
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