NBC Reporter Frets Palestinian ‘Hostages,’ Celebrates Gazans Having ‘Their Land’ Back
14th October 2025
As President Trump himself articulated on Monday in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the legacy, liberal media have been surprisingly respectful and tonally correct in expressing admiration for the peace deal between Israel and Hamas and capturing the emotion from Israelis as the 20 living hostages reunited with their families.
But in the middle of the night here in the U.S., one NBC international correspondent celebrated the Palestinian prisoners being released as “hostages” because some were merely “minors, doctors, nurses, journalists who have never been charged” but jailed by Israel under “administrative detention.”
Daniele Hamamdjian told senior Washington correspondent Hallie Jackson that the nearly 2,000 Palestinians being turned over from Israeli prisons are “freedom fighters” and “hostages” in the eyes of “many Palestinians”: