Comment by bawolff

Do you have any evidence for the claim that they "have grabbed people to trade them"?

If true, (and the person was not a combatant) that would certainly count as taking a hostage, provided that was the primary reason they detained said person. However if they detained someone primarily for some other purpose and then traded them later, that is a different story.

> Also more generally, they hold hostages to compel Palestinians to obey and not resist.

If you mean they detained someone who was doing some action or intending to do some action in order to compel other people not to do similar things, that probably doesn't count.

If you mean they detained some random person that wasn't involved at all in order to compel someone else to do or not do something, that probably would count.