Israeli forces recover body of Ron Binyamin who was killed in Oct. 7 massacre

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Source: USA Today

Published 2:28 p.m. ET May 18, 2024 | Updated 2:46 p.m. ET May 18, 2024


WASHINGTON — The Israeli military said Saturday its forces recovered the body of Ron Binyamin, who was among 252 people seized by Hamas-led Palestinian gunmen in a cross-border October 7 massacre last year.

Chief military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said Binyamin was found along with three other slain hostages whose repatriation was announced on Friday. Citing intelligence information, the military said all had been killed on Oct. 7.

The Hostages Families Forum Headquarters, a coalition of hostage families advocating for their release also known as Bring Them Home Now, issued a statement on X, formerly Twitter, saying that it “bows its head and mourns upon receiving the difficult news.”

“Returning his body to Israel is a sacred mission that allows his family to grant him eternal rest in the land of Israel,” the group said in a statement.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2024/05/18/israeli-forces-ron-binyamin/73749430007/

[SunSeeker]

1. You gotta be a special kind of sick to kidnap a dead body and hold it for 7 months.

Hamas takes terrorism to a whole new level.

[Richard D]

4. They did that to many . . .

. . . at least 14 bodies were recently found in a tunnel. I believe they did that because they know how important it is in the Jewish religion to care for the dead and provide them with respectful funerals as soon as possible after their deaths.

[LeftInTX]

6. Or simply because Hamas lies about the hostages and uses them as bargaining chips.

Imagine holding on to hope your loved one is alive only to find out they were dead the entire time?

[Richard D]

7. Yeah . . .

Just abhorrent.

[Frasier Balzov]

2. Somebody please explain why this isn't haram.

[Richard D]

3. Everything Hamas did . . .

. . . is Haram. Killing children, babies, elders, raping women, torture, and probably more.

[Frasier Balzov]

8. Aren't they observant Muslims?

Aren't they devout, pious Muslims?

Or is there some principle in Islam which supersedes ordinary prohibitions against the commission of atrocities?

Some Quranic excuse or justification for it?

What kind of culture is this?

[Richard D]

9. I am not in a position to judge that . . .

. . . But I would say that they are the same level of Muslim as right-wing fundamentalists are Christian.

They both think that they are correct in their beliefs. They both want to rule the world. Hamas is more into murder and rape, seemingly than fundamentalists. Maybe.

[Polybius]

19. No maybes about it

They are far worse.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

5. Waiting for the usual

in 3..2..1......................

[AZLD4Candidate]

10. Don't worry. It will come. It always does.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

13. And it's here. nt

[AZLD4Candidate]

16. As predictable as sunrise.

[SoFlaBro]

18. They breeze in with their easy solutions and platitudes as if this isn't a decades old problem that is very painful.

[Aussie105]

11. The usual WHAT?

Details please!

The demonising is spreading . . . HAMAS is evil, true, but it is flowing on to include Palestinians and now Muslims in general?

The Middle East doesn't need another medieval style Crusade of Christians versus Muslims!

[MarineCombatEngineer]

12. Don't play coy with me, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

[Aussie105]

14. OK, whatever.

No idea what you are on about, but whatever.

[AZLD4Candidate]

15. Evidence please.

[RandomNumbers]

20. I would think the reference of "the usual" is to the downplaying and acceptance

(or at best, ignoring and refusal to mention)

the atrocities of Hamas.

Keep in mind that Hamas IS the government of Gaza.

My understanding is that Hamas is the ELECTED government of Gaza. Well, way back when, they were elected. Then they decided not to let that election thing ever happen again.

Meanwhile Israel is just supposed to roll over and ignore the terrorism and despicable acts inflicted by Hamas?

Those who decry the Israeli response as "genocidal" rarely - in my experience, NEVER - have any words to say about the responsibility of Palestinians for their own government's actions.

(and to be clear - I am NOT happy with the way Israel is handling it. But I don't have better ideas to offer. And I'm not the one whose sister / mother / daughter / wife was raped and butchered, or whose brother / father / son / husband was beaten, tortured, and butchered.)

[Aussie105]

17. I'm in a difficult position.

I'm on the side of Israel, I truly am.

I feel they deserve their 1947 promise of a New Israel, but they have and are going about it the wrong way.

Every violent death is regrettable no matter who or how. No matter where they lived, age, gender or religion.

But the discussion both here and in the general world media has become so polarised, that a peaceful and permanent resolution is just that much further away.

So I'm bowing out of discussions like this.