A Sky News interview with an Israeli spokesperson has gone viral online after one of its anchors faced widespread ridicule for questioning if Israel values Palestinian lives less based on the higher number of Palestinian security prisoners being released compared to hostages being freed by Hamas in Gaza.
On Thursday, Sky News host Kay Burley pointed to Israel’s willingness to free three terrorists for every Israeli hostage, before posing her bizarre question to Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy.
“I was talking to a hostage negotiator this morning [and] he made the comparison between the 50 hostages that Hamas has promised to release, as opposed to the 150 prisoners that are Palestinians that Israel has said that it will release,” she stated.
“And he made the comparison between the numbers and the fact that ‘Does Israel not think that Palestinian lives are…