The disgusting vision of a lonely Israeli hostage pushed by this multitude of men that turns turns my stomach: its behavior is not only evil but deeply misogynist, writes Khadija Khan

Sometimes an image really is worth a thousand words.

On this occasion, it shows a lonely Israeli hostage, accompanied by Balaclava and armed men dressed as a helmet, which is thrown through a mafia that includes hundreds of donkey men.

These were the chaotic scenes yesterday when Arbel Yehoud was escorted by Hamas combatants and the Palestinian Islamic jihad to a red cross vehicle that waits in the South Gaza Strip.

The terror of this young woman, still only 29, and emerging hundreds of captivity days during which she suffered unimaginable horror, is written throughout her face.

Of course, it is not the first time that we have seen such disgusting scenes of joy in what should be a moment of sober reflection and a fragile concord in this more horrible conflict.

They have been a distinctive seal of each hostage delivery that has taken place in recent weeks.

However, this particular public exhibition made my stomach turn: jihadist men shouted genocidal songs, trying to intimidate a young traumatized already grabbed of fear.

It is not surprising that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave yesterday a statement condemning the ‘shocking scenes’.

The Israeli soldier Arbel Yehoud, 29, in slices, is escorted by Hamas and combatants of the Islamic Jihad while delivering it to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, Southern Gaza Strip, January 30, January 30,

Yehoud has been held by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023

He promised to delay the reciprocal return of the Palestinian prisoners until the safe exit of our hostages is guaranteed in the next few days. “

In other words: Hamas is endangering the high fire already precarious.

The behavior of the Islamist crowd was not only certifiable evil, but deeply misogynist.

How can we see it differently when they face these scenes, knowing that those same gunmen who hold at gunpoint are part of a regime that has supervised the rape, torture and death of any number of Jewish women?

This was an exhibition of pure and naked aggression: an aggression that began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas fighters killed innocent civilians, young Israeli with group rape, spit in their brutalized bodies and paraded to other terrified Israeli women terrified Through the streets.

Equally shocking was the response to these deplorable acts of Western liberal women, which was not an unequivocal conviction, but denial.

Hordes of female protesters, many of them of the middle class and, without a doubt, the completely paid members of the #Metoo Movement, marched through the streets of London and other European capitals with Palestinian flags, asking death to Israel and the end of Palestine suffering .

They have done it since then, apparently oblivious to open hypocrisy in the heart of their protest, which is that if you travel to whom you perceive as a victim on the basis of their race, nationality or religion, then you are betraying any feminist principles that you can believe what you have.

Yehoud was the second Israeli hostage of three to be launched on Thursday

Dozens of spectators cried out to take a look at the Israeli hostage in the middle of the chaotic scene

His denial of the suffering of Jewish women has remained a source of deep disgust for me, a woman who grew up in a Muslim home in Pakistan and who knows firsthand how cheap is the life of a woman for the men who fight in Religion name.

I wonder if they realize that among these crowds that do not have a single woman present.

That the Palestine they encourage is an unequal society where many women are little more than movable property, confined to their homes and many subject to torture and murder by Hamas’ men, as many human rights organizations have reported.

They are not for them the rights and freedoms enjoyed by women in Western democracies. However, many use that freedom to protest in favor of a regime that would strip it in a beat.

This is the uncomfortable truth that those protesters who watch flags seem unable to face, an encapsulated truth yesterday in those chilling photos of the terrified face of Arbel Yehoud.

A refusal to accept it is nothing less than a betrayal of all women.

Khadija Khan is a policy and culture editor in an additional research magazine.