Israel hostage rescue | Battle Lines, Podcast

On today’s episode we check in with Telegraph correspondent Nicola Smith about the controversy surrounding Israel’s hostage rescue, the latest ceasefire talks and could a full scale conflict break out with Lebanon. Then we spoke with Europe editor James Crisp about the surprising gains by the far right in the EU elections. Finally Senior foreign correspondent Sophia Yan explains why three judges have quit the courts in Hong Kong this week.
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[@zakbrecher2888]

Didn’t mention that the hostages were being held captive in the house of a journalist who has written for Al Jazeera…. Standard selective reporting as always 🫡

[@edmondlonergan9915]

He was,nt working for them now, Zionnism must Go!!!

[@Gorbyrev]

I am really struggling with the tenor of the interview with Nicola Smith regarding the hostage rescue in Gaza. All of the responsibility for the actions is placed at the feet of the IDF. Does Hamas not bear some responsibility, or indeed all of the responsibility? Hamas took the hostages. Hamas has refused to release them. Hamas has kept them in squalor and by the report of those who have been released the women have been sexually assaulted and the men have been tortured. Hamas fighters decided to attack the rescue force. They could have held back. Hamas decided to use automatic weapons and RPGs in a densely populated area where they located the hostages. One can only conclude that either Hamas thought the IDF would not dare risk a rescue attempt in a residential area or that they were hoping that any rescue attempt would be seen by the useful idiots of the Western press corps to be "disproportionate. Roland Oliphant has done been brilliant at reporting from the frontline in Ukraine, absolutely brilliant. But this interview suggested at a moral equivalence between forces that belies an ignorance to the terror unleashed on Israeli citizens, Jews, Arabs and Druze alike by Hamas. So whatever the count of the dead, however horrific that may be this all lays at the feet of Hamas. The IDF deserve praise for their courage and daring in executing a difficult mission and the IDF commander who lost his life did so in the gallant pursuit of a just aim, the release of Israeli hostages.