Do you think the Israeli hostages will be freed?

[Anonymous]

Do you think they will be freed? And how would Israel get them back at this stage?

By force? Prison exchange? Payouts?

[OlderAndWiser]

Hamas will kill the hostages because they are savage terrorists.

[Asker]

Do you think they're still alive.

[OlderAndWiser]

Probably. The value of the hostages is lost as soon as they can't prove that they are still alive, so Hamas will let them live for a few days or a few weeks.

[strateguy632]

certainly yes will be freed. oops in the past hammas would not even return corpses to israel. not like usual prisoner exchange with gaza terrorists.

[Agape93]

Some will, most will die, many will go missing and wish they were dead

[butterly248]

I hope so. Too many people have died on both sides 😞

[Mansearching]

They weren't in '72. They and kidnappers got blown up and killed. What's going to be different?

[Asker]

Its 2023 now

[Mansearching]

Nothing changed. They still hate each other and want to kill each other. What's the year got to do with anything?

[Alexandrubaschet08]

I have low expectation they will be save, i think Hamas will kill them all.
Hope Israel will make them pay a big price for theyr crimes

[AngryCarl2]

Gaza will be reduced to rubble and there will be hand-to-hand fighting in the ruins. If any of the hostages survive it will be a miracle.

[Blueeyes81]

Some probably will but it will be by force. Most will probably be killed in the process.

[Asker]

How do you think they will find out where they are?

[Blueeyes81]

There are hostages from multiple countries and you'll have pretty much every western intelligence agency working together as well as Israeli intelligence.

[Anonymous]

No. They will die. I can't tell you what should happen, because the mods already deleted that. I don't know what purpose the mods serve, but they are an online version of Hamas.