And what of the thousands of Palestinians that are being held in Israel? No charges. No trial. No real crime to speak of....just accusations. Do they deserve to either be tried (ya know, speedy) or released?
Most of those held in prisons before 10/7 have been duly convicted, many of murder. People Hamas demands to be released like the Barghoutis or those who have bamboozled useful idiots in the West like Walid Daqqa.
There were some held in "administrative detention" for terrorism, but even that has to be approved by a judge. In any case, how is that different than Gitmo? We held unlawful combatants there too without trial, but that detention did not have to be renewed by the judge every 6 months like the administrative detention in Israel.
In any case, before 10/7 the use of administrative detention was relatively limited. Since 10/7, of course, the country has been in a state of emergency and a lot of terror suspects were arrested and thus the numbers in administrative detention have ballooned.
But hey, Israel just offered to free thousands of terrorists in exchange for 40 hostages. I think such a ratio is a mistake, especially without demanding that every single hostage be freed.