Following October 7 events, there are currently 101 Israeli hostages in Gaza strip.
This question resolve YES if at the end of 2025, the Wikipedia page of Israel Hamas Hostage Crisis, say that there is at least one Israeli hostage in Gaza that were abducted in oct 7 (not including the 4 abducted earlier).
Otherwise, this question will resolve as NO.
If there are overwelming evidence (according to global media) that all the hostages are dead, this will also resolve as no.
Update 2025-01-31 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): Additional Resolution Details:
To resolve as NO, there must be clear evidence such as official declarations from the state of Israel stating that all remaining hostages are dead, or definitive actions by Hamas indicating no live hostages remain.
If Hamas claims to still have live hostages and there is no contradictory evidence, the market will resolve as YES.
Of course there will. The savages will never agree to release them all, and international pressure will step in to protect the baby-torturers and stop Israel rescuing the hostages from them.
To be clear, this question specifically relates to the people who were made hostage on october 7th 2023. Not anyone already a hostage before October 7th. Right?
Also, if on 31st December 2023 there is/are hostage(s) in gaza but its clear to everyone that there arent any alive hostages, how then will you resolve?
Yes, I think I made that clear, this does not include hostages before Oct 7.
I will assume you meant 31 Dec 25.
In that case it will be reslolve as NO. But it should be quite clear, (something like state of Israel post official declaration that all the remaining are dead, or Hamas do something like that, if it's still under dispute, and Hamas will claim they still have live hostages, and there no contradictory evidence, it will resolve as YES)
@Ammar These girls report sleeping on the floor over long periods, eating as little as one pita a day and being psychologically tortured by being told Israel has been completely destroyed. One of them was held alone in a tunnel.
And this is just what they've opened up about in the few days since they've been released...
I understand you want Palestinians to be treated better by the IDF, and I do too, but lying about Hamas treating hostages well is gross.
@Shai israel bombs most homes and severely limits food from trying to enter gaza. Hamas has to sleep on the floors and eat only a piece of bread a day. Do you expect their hostages to be in mansions and offer buffets?
While in israel rape, amputations, and literal murder of Palestinian hostages with no link to Hamas, many are children.
I'm not steel manning your point, but I don't think I can try while remaining honest. The context is "the contrast between how well Hamas treats Israeli hostages (even when they're literally idf) versus how poorly Israel treats Palestinian hostages". If you're way around that is to focus on the hostages sleeping on the floor likely due to Israel bombing homes, I'm not sure there's room for a productive conversation.
@Ammar What you said simply isn't true. Israel allows hundreds of humanitarian aid trucks to enter Gaza daily, many of which are raided by Hamas, who limit civilian access to them. So no, Hamas members do not "eat only a piece of bread a day".
Israel does not hold Palestinian "hostages". Every single prisoner is either a terrorist with blood on their hands, someone who attempted a terrorist attack, or someone who conspired to commit acts of terror. Even the women and children. (See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisgat_Ze%27ev_stabbings, https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.timesofisrael.com/man-hurt-in-jerusalem-terror-stabbing-palestinian-teen-attacker-caught/amp/, https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/palestinian-terrorism/israeli-girl-killed-in-bed-after-stabbing-attack/)
There are also Jewish settlers who are considered terrorists by Israel and up until recently were arrested in the same process.
I don't think you realize what is happening here. Israelis have to deal with stabbing attacks on a daily basis. Sometimes reaching 3 attacks per day.
Hamas is a genocidal terrorist organization, and we saw well in October 7 that their goal is to kill as many Jews as possible. Would you rather we let them continue arming until they succeed?
For those on the sidelines observing, and for those contemplating commenting, google “hasbara” and read some of the articles about volunteers who collaborate on social media and even use dedicated apps to submit and receive crowdsource-alerts and “respond” to unfriendly coverage in order to manufacture consent.
@Kamie unfortunately a large percentage of the israeli (not Jewish specifically) population is basically hasbara-light due to the propaganda bubble they're stuck in. Fortunately, my Israeli (specifically Israeli, not Jewish) friends outside of the country seem to be a lot more grounded in reality.
Online, ask an Israeli to describe Hamas, they'll end up describing Israel's actions.
I’m not going to get in an “argument” about this because this kind of thing is a spectator sport and I don’t feel like debating a continual series of new usernames who are “just asking questions” and misinterpreting what I’m saying. My post was intended as a warning.
My point about hasbara is that it’s beautifully recursive. It, and the meta-context, and the concept pointed to by the word are all finely-tuned tools for manipulating public opinion, in entirely guileless and unrepentant hands who (tragically for all of us) genuinely feel an intense and chronic need to use it and more.
It’s a workshopped word for going out and lying, from the world stage to locally. The form the “PR” takes that’s relevant here is a bunch of people scouring the internet looking for “bad views” or “inconvenient information” to respond to. It’s certainly a well-PR’d word, I’ll give you that. Your response of “everyone does PR, what’s wrong with that” is well-practiced, I’ll give you that too.
And that’s my point. Nobody here is going to change their mind about anything because any lines of argumentation, dodges, misinterpretation of positions, etc. are cynically crafted and refined over thousands of interactions to portray the person and their perspective as the reasonable individual to anyone else watching. Discussions about these topics are impossible to have online because of hasbara.
This is a warning to anyone who’s genuinely hoping they can change someone’s mind here, that the environment they think they’re in isn’t, there are very scarce honest actors in either side of this topic. It’s a warning that there’s no point getting involved in these discussions because the counterparty nearly always behaves a certain way. It’s a warning to ignore the comments no matter how incendiary a statement might be, especially if that statement feels comically wrong, because it’s a trap to make another public display to sway opinion.
Don’t feed the trolls.
do we have like a list where they're keeping track of how many have returned as of today, and how many are confirmed dead, and theyre bodies are to be returned
@PoliticalEconomyPK
yes of course there is, half of Israel's media, is on that specifically.
https://www.kan.org.il/lobby/kidnapped/
maybe I can find a list in English if you really want but the english Wikipedia covers most of it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war_hostage_crisis
@PoliticalEconomyPK
additionally, if you prefer:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/hamas-hostages-israel-war-gaza/