Hamas rejects hostage deal amid Qatari, US optimism

Acting like Hamas totally wouldn't rape them while in captivity like they did on Oct 7th: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-23/ty-article/.premium/hostage-released-from-gaza-says-hamas-treated-female-hostages-like-dolls/0000018d-35d9-db8f-a7df-37fb5cf70000 (Archive link: https://archive.is/EN0ds)

That they don't allow the Red Cross access to the hostages is also very damning.

Released hostage Aviva Siegel said Tuesday morning in a Knesset lobby for the victims of sexual and gender violence that Hamas terrorists turned the hostages in the Gaza Strip into "puppets with whom they could do what they wanted, when they wanted, and it's beyond belief that they're still there."

Siegel said that she was "a witness to ... The terrorists bringing [the female hostages] inappropriate clothing, dolls clothes." She added, "We'll soon reach four months [since they were kidnapped]. We were there for 51 days and there wasn't a minute that we didn't experience abuse – and they are still there."

"The girls are being raped there and nobody reports on [it]," continued Shir. "We no longer have the option of sitting here and continuing to talk politely. At this very moment, there is somebody sitting in a cave being raped

"We're almost four months after [they were kidnapped], past the point of terminating a pregnancy, why do we have to come here to convince this?"