Comment: See also:

• Israeli hostages describe Hamas' treatment: signs of 'Stockholm syndrome', given 'cynical' birthday cake, 'moved location often'
• FOUR high-profile resignations hit Israel's government, Ben-Gvir says there's now a 'big opportunity' to achieve 'victory' in Gaza

Comment: It says it all that the most egregious complaints they could concoct are those above. It seems that, yet again, the hostages 'initial' - likely too flattering - assessment of Hamas' treatment was later revised.

Bear in mind that 90% of Gazans are threatened by famine and disease outbreaks in the Israeli concentration camp, and that numerous hostages have commented that their own lives were put in danger by the Israeli airstrikes - with 3 hostages killed by Israel during this latest 'rescue' operation/massacre.

All things considered, it's clear that the hostages were fairly well treated. So well so that - the possibility of 'trauma bonding' aside - the best excuse ponerized Israeli society could come up with was Stockholm syndrome. Note that it's unheard of for Palestinians to leave Israeli detention (involving literal torture) in such a condition.

These descriptions certainly don't sound, as Israeli propaganda would have people believe, like the behaviour of terrorist captors who readily succumb to a frenzied rage, raping and slaughtering women and babies.

The following is just one of the many comparisons showing the effect of Israeli vs Hamas detention:



Time of Israel reports:

Rescued hostages said suffering from malnutrition; leaning on each other for support Doctors at Sheba hospital say Noa Argamani, Shlomi Ziv, Almog Meir Jan, and Andrey Kolzov are constantly seeking each other out.

Noa Argamani, Shlomi Ziv, Almog Meir Jan, and Andrey Kozlov were found to be malnourished during initial medical tests at Sheba Medical Center on Saturday, but the mental influence of their captivity had yet to be established.

The Kan public broadcaster reported Sunday evening that after initial conversations with the four, medical professionals noted that the rescued hostages spoke about awful experiences they had been subjected to in captivity while also saying that their captors cared about their wellbeing.

Jan said that as a "cynical" gesture, his captors made him a cake for his birthday.

Staff at the hospital told the media that the four rescued hostages did not sleep on Saturday night, their first night back in Israel after their rescue, and instead stayed up talking to their families and among themselves.

The doctors also told Kan that the four were constantly seeking each other out, indicating their continued need to lean on each other for support.

The rescued hostages have begun to talk about their experiences, according to various reports.

Channel 13 reported on Sunday that Ziv said he had learned Arabic from Al-Jazeera broadcasts he watched in captivity and that their captors made them read the Quran and pray every day.

Argamani has also begun to share some of what she went through, telling her family that she narrowly avoided death four times in captivity, according to Channel 12 news.

According to a Monday Ynet report, Argamani learned Arabic while she was in captivity and used it to become a spokesperson for other female hostages she was held with before they were released in November during a weeklong truce. Before they were separated, Argamani would use the Arabic she learned to get things the hostages needed for them.

She said she had been held in four different apartments during her eight months in captivity and that in the last location, the family made her wash their dishes. Ynet reported that she also cooked at times with basic ingredients she was provided with.

Describing the rescue on Saturday, Argamani said she was washing the dishes when she heard a shout from the living room and saw people with their faces covered who told her they were from the IDF.

"At first, I thought they were making fun of me, and I didn't move, but then he asked me, 'Can I throw you over my shoulder?' and I realized what was happening," Channel 12 quoted her as saying.

She added that on the way to the extraction spot, their truck broke down.

"It was scary. The soldiers were brave. In a matter of one second, I may not have been here today," she said.

Argamani was taken to see her mother, Liora, who is suffering from terminal cancer, but her father, Yaakov, said that Liora's advanced illness made communication between the two difficult.

"I believe she understood what was happening. There was a foggy response, but Liora is in a bad way, and she barely looked at Noa," Yaakov said.

Doctors at Ichilov Hospital, where Liora is a patient, told Ynet that Noa has become actively involved in her mother's treatment since her return, seeking extensive information from the medical team and asking questions.

Shortly after Noa was taken captive, Liora appealed to Hamas to let her daughter go so that she could see her before she died.

Kozlov also reunited with his family on Sunday after his parents landed from St. Petersburg. In a video of the reunion, he could be seen falling to his knees and bursting into tears as soon as he saw his mother.

Argamani, Jan, Kozlov and Ziv were abducted from the Supernova music festival near Kibbutz Re'im on the morning of October 7, when 3,000 Hamas-led terrorists killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages in a murderous rampage across southern Israel.

Israeli officials, attendees, and hostages, have all provided information that the majority of those that were killed were victims of Israeli fire.

Officers of the police's elite Yamam counter-terrorism unit, along with Shin Bet agents, on Saturday morning simultaneously raided two multi-story buildings in the heart of Nuseirat, where the four hostages were being held by Hamas-affiliated families and guards of the terror group, according to the military.

They fail to mention that eyewitness statements reveal Israel, and possibly the US, used the Gaza-aid pier and humanitarian aid trucks, alongside aerial bombardment and machine gun fire, to achieve this 'success': US cell IN Israel helped rescue 4 hostages, operation included airstrikes that killed 210 Gazans in Nuseirat refugee camp massacre

Hamas's government media office claimed at least 274 people were killed amid the operation, an unverified figure that also does not differentiate between combatants and civilians.

See also: FOUR high-profile resignations hit Israel's government, Ben-Gvir says there's now a 'big opportunity' to achieve 'victory' in Gaza

Comment: See Also:

• The Weight of Chains: US/NATO Destruction of Yugoslavia (Documentary)
• Parenti: NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999 wrapped up 'rational destruction' of Yugoslavia
• Zakharova: US must apologize for bombing former Yugoslavia

Comment: Whether this is a relative of Disease X that the WEF and friends have been threatening the world with for a few years now remains to be seen. Either way, it would seem that the authorities response to a perceived outbreak could, yet again, be the primary source of suffering. And, in this instance, both the food supply and people appear to be the targets. Which is all the more concerning considering how a great many people's immune systems are already under strain after suffering multiple, experimental covid jabs.

As for the injection itself, it's not clear whether this EU version is the life-threatening mRNA technology - but MIT recently reported that it's in development, and appears to be the preferred type:

• First recorded case of cow to human bird flu transmission occurred in US, new study reveals
• Big Pharma tested 'secret bioweapon targeting Slavic DNA in Mariupol, Ukraine', video tour shows biowarfare laboratory

Stat News reports:

Finland to offer bird flu vaccine to select groups of people, a possible global first

The vaccine campaign will be limited, with doses set to be available to groups including poultry farmers, veterinarians, scientists who study the virus, and people who work on fur farms housing animals like mink and fox and where there have been outbreaks.

Flashbacks to the contrived coronavirus crisis where they culled millions of mink, and contaminated the local water table.

In an email, Mia Kontio, a health security official at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, told STAT the country was waiting for 20,000 doses to arrive, but planned to administer them "as soon as the vaccines are in the country."

The decision to start providing vaccines reflects fears that people in close contact with infected animals could contract the H5N1 virus themselves. The virus is, for now, not particularly adept at infecting humans or, more importantly, spreading among them. But scientists worry that as the virus infects more mammalian species, and if it encounters more human cells, then the higher the chances are that it evolves to become more of a threat to people.

What are the chances that this rollout will actually hasten the viruses adaptation?

The Finnish campaign also comes as the U.S. faces an H5N1 outbreak among dairy cattle — previously a species scientists thought wasn't susceptible to the virus. Three dairy workers have had confirmed infections tied to the outbreak, and although the infections were all mild and there were no signs of forward transmission to other people, the cases underscored the risk to people who have contact with infected animals.

"The concern here is about the animal-human interface," said Marc Lacey, the global executive director for pandemic at CSL Seqirus, the maker of several H5 vaccines, including the one Finland is planning on using.

Other countries are discussing deploying H5 vaccines or are working to secure supplies, Lacey said. The U.S., for example, last week hired CSL Seqirus to build up the number of H5 flu vaccine doses it has available. But Finland was the first country he knew of that actually planned to use the vaccine, at least in recent years outside research studies.

So it's basically untested. Meanwhile there was an outbreak on a 'fully vaccinated' duck farm in France.

The vaccine to be administered in Finland is designed off a different avian influenza virus called H5N8, but researchers say the shot should still confer protection against H5N1. It's the hemagglutinin component of the vaccine — the H part — that's the main target. The vaccine also includes an adjuvant, a component that deepens the generated immune response.

European regulators authorized the vaccine, which is known as Zoonotic influenza vaccine Seqirus, based on a number of studies showing that it elicited immune responses that scientists think would be protective against avian influenza. Researchers can't run traditional efficacy trials with such products because the virus isn't circulating among people, so they're typically approved based on these immunogenicity studies. The immunization is approved as a two-dose vaccine, with doses given at least three weeks apart.

So it's likely that the studies are seriously flawed at best, or, like the Covid jab studies, utterly corrupt.

Isabella Eckerle, a virologist at the Geneva Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases, said that vaccinating people at high risk of exposure to the virus could protect them, but she said the world should not rely on human vaccination to prevent the H5N1 situation from worsening. Instead, health officials should work to limit transmission broadly, including among animals. Such efforts could include improving the use of personal protective equipment, or PPE, on farms, she said.

(In the U.S., health officials have made PPE available to dairy farms, but few have taken them up on the offer. Milking parlors can be hot and humid, meaning it's not particularly pleasant to wear goggles, gowns, and masks.)

"The most important thing would be not to have this virus circulating," particularly in mammals, Eckerle said.

She added that other flu vaccines can't always halt transmission, even if they reduce the risk of serious illness. It's possible then these vaccines will perform similarly.

"They might prevent symptoms or disease, but we don't know if they prevent infection," she said.

Does that mean people could be infected and contagious but because they're asymptomatic they won't be aware?

Scientists have worried H5N1 could pose a pandemic threat since its discovery nearly 30 years ago. But in just the past few years, the virus has expanded its global footprint and its list of victims, spreading to just about every corner of the world and sickening and killing scores of wild and domesticated birds. It's also found its way to an increasing number of mammals. The dairy cow outbreak — which thus far has only been seen in the U.S. — is the latest twist in its history.

The majority of animals that have died, were culled. Some experts have noted that this is actually preventing birds from developing immunity to the virus.

Finland, in particular, has been dealing with H5N1 outbreaks not just among birds, but on its fur farms, with at least 71 farms having cases last year. While most of the farms housed foxes, it's the spread of the virus in mink in particular that heightens concerns. The receptors the virus uses to infiltrate their cells are thought to be similar to ours, possibly providing the virus with a training ground to become better at infecting our cells. Moreover, mink can be infected by avian and human flu viruses simultaneously, which could allow the viruses to swap genes and for the resulting pathogen to become more adept at spreading among people.

Last month, Finnish authorities announced expanded surveillance measures for the virus on the country's fur farms; those measures will be in place through the end of September, a stretch when officials said the risk of transmission to the farm animals from wild birds was at its highest. But officials noted that Europe has documented fewer infections in wild bird populations this year than have been seen in the recent past.

Comment: Andalou reports on the Nuseirat camp massacre that occurred amidst the hostage rescue:

"The Israeli special forces used a closed transport truck and a civilian vehicle in the infiltration operation to retrieve the hostages," the sources told Anadolu.

"These transport vehicles are widespread in the Gaza Strip and are used to transport humanitarian aid during the Israeli war," they added.

According to witnesses, Israeli military vehicles unexpectedly advanced into areas east and northwest of the Nuseirat camp, coinciding with heavy artillery bombardment targeting large areas of the camp.

Some 210 Palestinians were killed and more than 400 injured on Saturday in severe Israeli airstrikes targeting Nuseirat refugee camp, areas east of Deir al-Balah, and al-Bureij and al-Maghazi camps in central Gaza, coinciding with a sudden incursion of vehicles east and northwest of Nuseirat.

Western leaders praise the rescue and failed to mention the massacre; Al Jazeera reports:

Scholz ignores Nuseirat massacre, says operation 'sign of hope'

According to the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday, 4 Israeli captives being retrieved alive is an "important sign of hope."

The chancellor made no mention of the massacre committed by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in order for the 4 captives to have been released, or the 210 Palestinians who were brutally killed.

Heartbreaking videos were shared on social media depicting dozens of martyrs, including children, killed by the Israeli indiscriminate bombing of the Nuseirat Refugee camp. Many of the martyrs have been turned into pieces scattered across the streets of the camp.

"An important sign of hope -- in particular for the numerous Israeli families who continue to fear for those close to them. Four hostages are now free," Scholz wrote on X.

Missing from the translation is the last part of the tweet: 'Hamas must finally release all hostages. The war must end.'

No mention of the fears of Gazans. No mention of the massacre. One might conclude that Scholz perceives Palestinians, and their fears, as of lesser import than those of Israelis.

Following "Israel's" assault on the Nuseirat refugee camp on Saturday which killed at least 210 Palestinians, the US President Joe Biden has not only not condemned the aggression but on the contrary, celebrated the retrieval of 4 Israeli captives during the strike.

Congratulating the Israeli families for the release of the captives with French President Emmanuel Macron, Biden stated that the US "won't stop working until all the hostages are home and a ceasefire is reached. That's essential to happen."

According to the correspondent, dozens of Israeli rockets targeted civilian homes in Nuseirat camp. Many women and children are among the casualties being transported to the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital using animal-drawn carts and private vehicles due to the dire circumstances of the healthcare system.

There are reports of many dead and wounded who have not yet been reached by ambulances. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, the death toll from the bombardment currently stands at 60 and is expected to continue rising. However, our correspondent has reported upwards of 80 martyrs.

According to Al Mayadeen's correspondent in Gaza, an Israeli special force had infiltrated Nuseirat Camp. Upon the force's discovery by the Resistance, heavy confrontations ensued. According to our correspondent, it was the discovery of the force that led to this heavy Israeli shelling and the massacre in the camp.

Further analysis:

How the Nuseirat Massacre unfolded:

Israel used the US-built 'humanitarian pier' to sneak in a unit of Israeli soldiers, and reportedly American soldiers. The soldiers boarded a humanitarian aid truck and drove to Nuseirat refugee camp.

Once inside, they were discovered by Palestinians, which resulted in nonstop Israeli aerial bombardment and the soldiers opening fire inside the central market, killing over 210 Palestinians and injuring hundreds.

The 'humanitarian pier' gets exposed to be an occupation, assassination, and massacre pier.

The Americans cannot be trusted under any circumstances. A humanitarian pier built under the guise of helping hungry and starving Palestinians, was actually used to massacre them.

Every day the US' colonial barbarism gets revealed to be more and more horrific.

An Israeli news anchor was allegedly fired for highlighting the good health of the hostages. Granted part of the comment is rather tasteless, however, throughout this genocide, that's never been a problem for Israel's media bosses:

Comment: See also: Snow in June on Scotland's mountains as Arctic air sweeps in

Comment: SOTT has been exploring the above ideas, from numerous angles, for decades, and the following articles provide fascinating insight into the findings:

• The Golden Age, Psychopathy and the Sixth Extinction
• Did Earth 'Steal' Martian Water?
• Planet-X, Comets and Earth Changes by J.M. McCanney
• Nemesis, not 'Nibiru' - Clarifying mainstream reports about 'a large ninth planet' that periodically sends comets our way
• Forget About Global Warming: We're One Step From Extinction!

Also check out SOTT radio's:

• Behind the Headlines: Earth changes in an electric universe: Is climate change really man-made?
• MindMatters: The Holy Grail, Comets, Earth Changes and Randall Carlson
• Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Interview with Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Pierre Lescaudron

Comment: Leaving the Marxist ideology at the end of the article aside, indeed, if people were aware of the rapidly deteriorating state of affairs, mass strikes (as just one example) could have some impact.

However, even if it doesn't quite pan out as NATO, or the author of this article, think, considering how fragile economies and supply chains in the West are these days, any additional stressors could have equally devastating consequences.

That said, it is clear that Russia, and China, in particular, are taking seriously the threat posed by the increasing mania of the pathocrats in the West (and Israel):

• Ukraine's strike on Russia's strategic early warning radar site is a big deal
• Russia begins 'non-strategic' nuclear weapons drills
• 'Strong punishment': China starts two days of Joint Sword military drills around Taiwan

Comment: See also:

• Fauci says he is 'not convinced' COVID-19 came about naturally
• Fauci recommends encasing entire body in bubble wrap to protect against Coronavirus
• Rand Paul warns "authoritarian" Fauci's "casual disdain" for rights is "recipe for totalitarianism"
• Clinton Foundation Connection: Dr. Fauci confirms his friendship with WHO Director General Dr. Tedros
• Fauci says people "have to give up what you consider your individual right of making your own decision" on vaccines
• Fauci tells CNN it's 'a matter of when, not if' definition of 'fully vaccinated' changes
• Rand Paul says Fauci is lying about being retired, is secretly working for Biden admin

Comment: Israeli passport holders are already banned from a number of countries, including Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Brunei, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and Lebanon. However, as demonstrated with the recent exodus from the country, a great many Israelis are dual-nationals so they can get around these bans by using their other passports. Even so, the diplomatic and symbolic gesture is worthwhile.

Palestinians, being indigenous to the occupied land of Palestine, don't have this luxury.