2023-10-08 21:15:38
Ebetween the dozens of videos and photographs showing the cruel acts committed by the Hamas terrorists who infiltrated the south of the country on Saturday, the image of a young student, Noa Argamanibecame the face of horror that is experienced in Israel, that of the kidnapped.
Noa was participating with her boyfriend in an open-air festival in the Negev desert, in southern Israel, along with thousands of other young people. As the hours pass, the place of rave It became one of the favorite hunting grounds for militants of the Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas.
There they killed and, above all, kidnapped young women to take them as prisoners to the tunnels and safe houses of the Gaza Strip. the Palestinian enclave controlled by the extremist organization whose favorite motto is the destruction of Israel.
In addition to Noa and dozens of other young people, Hamas militants took women with their children and babies and elderly people to their cavesbut not before recording many of them with their cell phones and sharing the images over the internet.
Social networks can also be a channel for terrorism
The use of the kidnappings as a tool of terrorism It has been studied for decades, but Hamas added a new element this Saturday: the brutal impact of its evidence in images throught social media.
???????? | This is the sad list of innocent Israeli women who have been kidnapped by Hamas terrorists in the last 24 hours. His relatives in Israel ask to spread the word. Right now they are hostages of a group of savages.
They can be your daughters, your sisters, your friends. pic.twitter.com/nkiSI6UgAR
— Agustín Antonetti (@agusantonetti) October 7, 2023
There is even an international convention against hostage-taking, sponsored by the United Nations. But it dates back to 1979, when terrorists did not have the possibility of displaying their prey in real time with global reach.
It is enough to remember, for example, those old photographs of kidnapped people that extremist organizations from right to left disseminated in black and white, sending the images to the media, often with the prisoner. showing the cover of a newspaper to confirm time and place.
Now, members of Hamas, an extremely violent and authoritarian group, reveled in sharing images of death and looting in towns in southern Israel, where they walked around with automatic weapons killing civilians. And kidnapping.
When choosing a face for the horror that is being experienced in Israel, many newspapers and portals around the world chose Noa. Perhaps because of her attractive, typically Israeli face, or because Hamas was responsible for releasing a video in which the young woman begged them not to kill her.
The chilling front page of London’s Daily Mail on Sunday managed to stand out among all the covers of the British newspapers, which were mostly They shared with their readers the indignation against the crimes of Hamas.
LThe cover leaves no room for doubt: «Don’t kill me», “don’t kill me,” in big black letters. What Noa begged her captors while they recorded her with her cell phones and They put her on a motorcycle to escape to the den in the Palestinian enclave.
On the way down, the person in charge of the cover of the popular English newspaper gave an excellent summary of the situation: “The petrified plea of Noa, 25, kidnapped at a peace festival by Hamas terrorists”.
This is, he continued, just one of “Israelis, including children, mothers and elderly women, taken away in a murderous invasion that left the world shocked and the Middle East on the brink of all-out war.”
In addition to the cover, the newspaper also published heartbreaking statements by Noa’s father to Israeli television. “I was hoping this was a mistake and not true,” Yaacov Argamani said through tears.
The hour of anguish and fear
“I was always very protective, but at this moment I couldn’t protect her”added the man, who evidently saw the video released by Hamas. His daughter, he noted, “was so petrified, so scared.”
In the same situation there are hundreds, or thousands, of parents, brothers and sisters, friends, sons and daughters throughout Israelwaiting to hear from their loved ones in the hands of fundamentalist captors.
Kidnappings by illegal or extremist groups usually aim to obtain ransom money or, as Hamas spokespersons claim to be the case, prisoner exchanges.
But the videos massively disseminated by terrorists and their sympathizers around the world seem to be saying something else, that they are being used, in the best ISIS styleto inflict fear on the enemy.
It now remains to be seen what price Gaza fundamentalists will pay for their, perhaps poorly calculated, excess of cruelty.
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