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>Release the hostages and have fewer mouths to feed.
Hostages and famine are not connected they’re two separate issues. International law is crystal clear: you cannot starve a civilian population as a bargaining chip. Saying “release the hostages and have fewer mouths to feed” is basically admitting that the famine is deliberate punishment of civilians, which is a war crime. Children in Gaza are not hostages, yet they’re the ones dying of hunger. If your logic is that innocent people should starve until militants act, then you’re defending collective punishment, not justice.