IDF Soldiers are “Hostages” but Palestinian Civilians are “Prisoners”?

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In this video, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald investigates the issue of hostages and prisoners held by Israel, particularly the contrast between the treatment of Israeli soldiers captured by Hamas and Palestinian civilians detained by Israel. It highlights how Israeli soldiers released by Hamas appear physically healthy, while Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons are often emaciated, tortured, and even die from neglect, and the double standards in how the two groups are portrayed and treated.

This video was produced by System Update and published on the Glenn Greenwald YouTube channel on the 13th of May, 2025.

To read the transcript of the interview: IDF Soldiers are “Hostages” but Palestinian Civilians are “Prisoners”?

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ABOUT GLENN GREENWALD

Glenn Greenwald is a former constitutional lawyer, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, and the author of several bestsellers, including No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State (2014) and Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil (2021).  Acclaimed as one of the 25 most influential political commentators by The Atlantic, one of America’s top 10 opinion writers by Newsweek, and one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013 by Foreign Policy, Greenwald is a former constitutional and civil rights litigator. He was a columnist for The Guardian until October 2013 and a co-founder and former editor at The Intercept, which he left in 2020 to launch his own show System Update on Rumble.