Israel arrests people, including women and children, all the time for no other reason than to discipline their families to keep them in line. That’s the trade. Do as we say, fall in line and don’t resist, or we hurt your family. Those are hostages, and this is a practice that Israel have engaged in for far longer than Hamas.

So just to be clear, the difference between a ‘hostage’ and a ‘prisoner’ is whether or not the holder is an occupying power?

Just absolute nonsense. Most minor spot on her record from 13 years ago, this isn’t to do with that at all. This is moneyed interests telling the government that if they can cause this much of a ruckus for something this minor, imagine what they could do with all the far worse shit they have in their back pocket on anyone else who might dare threaten their interests.