The article transmitted below reports on the letter of thanks to the Al-Qassam Brigades from an Israeli woman who was released with her six-year-old daughter on Friday.
The prolonged stays in hospitals of released Israelis may have less to do with their physical health than with keeping them incommunicado while convincing them not to speak honestly about their decent treatment while in Gaza, as an 85-year-old woman released in October scandalously did on live TV.
Israel apparently believes that beastly and inhumane treatment of its Palestinian "prisoners" serves its own intimidatory interests, and the Palestinian women and children released in the West Bank in recent days have been speaking freely and frankly about their beastly and inhumane treatment in Israel's prisons.
Hamas clearly believes that treating its "guests" kindly serves its own reputational interests, but this kind treatment, if publicly disclosed, would undercut the "human animals" dehumanization and demonization narrative required to justify to Israeli and Western public opinion the planned resumption of Israel's genocidal assault against the people of Gaza.
NOTE: While 150 Palestinian women and children, the great majority held without charges or trials, have been released during the past four days, Israel has taken 260 new hostages in the West Bank during these same four days, bringing the total number of new hostages taken in the West Bank since October 7 to 3290. According to the Palestinian Prisoners Club, 56 of the 60 Palestinian women still in Israeli prisons have been "arrested" since October 7.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/from-danielle-and-emilia-freed-israeli-woman-thanks-qassam-brigades
‘From Danielle and Emilia’ – Freed Israeli Woman Thanks Qassam Brigades
A freed Israeli captive thanked Al-Qassam fighters in Gaza ‘from the bottom of her heart’, for their humanity and kind treatment of her and her daughter Emilia while held in Gaza since October 7.
The now-freed Israeli woman, Danielle, was freed along with her daughter Emilia Aloni, 6, as part of the first prisoner swap between the Resistance and Israel on Friday, November 24.
The letter was first communicated by the military media of Al-Qassam, and has widely circulated in Arab and Middle Eastern media, including Anadolu News Agency, Al-Jazeera and others.
“My daughter felt like a queen in Gaza,” Danielle wrote, according to the published letter. “Thank you for the many hours you spent as caregivers.”
“She hasn’t met anyone on our long journey, from the rank and file to the leadership, who didn’t treat her with gentleness, affection, and love,” she added.
Below is the full letter.
“To the generals who have accompanied me in recent weeks, it seems we will part ways tomorrow, but I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your extraordinary humanity shown towards my daughter, Emilia.
“You were like parents to her, inviting her into your rooms whenever she desired. She acknowledges feeling like all of you are her friends, not just friends, but truly beloved and good.
“Thank you, thank you, thank you for the many hours you spent as caregivers. Thank you for being patient with her and showering her with sweets, fruits, and everything available even when it was not.
“Children should not be in captivity, but thanks to you and other kind people we met along the way, my daughter felt like a queen in Gaza… In general, she acknowledges feeling like the center of the world. She hasn’t met anyone on our long journey, from the rank and file to the leadership, who didn’t treat her with gentleness, affection, and love.
“I will forever be a prisoner of gratitude because she did not leave here with a lifelong psychological trauma. I will remember your kind behavior, granted here despite the difficult situation you were dealing with yourselves and the severe losses you suffered here in Gaza.
“I wish in this world we could truly be good friends.
“I wish you all health and well-being… Health and love to you and your families’ children. Many thanks.
Danielle and Emilia”
(The Palestine Chronicle)
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