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Watch carefully when you hear and see coverage about this. The people Israel had were "prisoners" while the people hamas had were "hostages."
This kind of subtle reframing of words happens all the time.
CBS Nightly News had a story that talked about the 150% increase (don't quote me on the actual percentage) in antisemitism acts, but anti Muslim sentiments were just "on the rise."
It's a double standard depending on who they're talking about.
You fully made that up to fit your narrative.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/29/middleeast/palestinian-prisoners-israeli-judicial-system-west-bank-mime-intl/index.html
Most of the Palestinian prisoners hadn't even been charged, much less received any trial.
The article states:
Which doesn’t do it justice. Majority could be a little more than half.
CNN’s Nima Elbagir apparently went through the list published by the Israeli government and found that 80% of them were held without anything substantial listed behind their names (40s mark).