Hamas’s armed wing said Monday that it discussed with Qatari mediators a deal to free up to 70 Israeli hostages in exchange for a five-day ceasefire and the release of some Palestinian prisoners.
“Last week there was an effort from the Qatari brothers to release the enemy captives from women and children, in return for the release of 200 Palestinian children and 75 women detained by the enemy,” said Abu Ubaida, spokesman for al-Qassam Brigades, according to Reuters.
“The truce should include a complete ceasefire and allow aid and humanitarian relief everywhere in the Gaza Strip,” Ubaida said. He added that Israel was “procrastinating and evading” the price of the deal.
Also on Monday, David Ignatius of The Washington Post reported that Israel and Hamas are close to a hostage deal that would free most Israeli women and children. “The general outline of the deal is understood,” an Israeli official said. The report said Israel is hoping 100 people will be freed.
The Guardian reported last week that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a deal earlier in the conflict that would have involved a five-day ceasefire in exchange for Hamas freeing children, women, the elderly, and sick people. Israel showed its rejection of the deal by launching its ground invasion of Gaza, which started on October 27.
Israel estimates 240 Israelis are being held hostage in Gaza who were captured during the October 7 Hamas attack, which killed about 1,200 Israelis. So far, Hamas has released four people and has claimed some were killed by Israeli airstrikes, but that has not been confirmed.
A good start. It would still leave 5,000 prisoners in Israeli jails. Still, I like the idea of women, children for women, children. Who knows if there have been Hamas hostages killed by the bombardment. With the fury of the bombing for damage and not accuracy, it could be true. I don’t think they are holding all of the hostages in one spot. Let’s see what transpires.
All Gaza population is hostage of Zionist terrorists.
I was reading about Ukranians castrated and tortured to death by Russian forces.
You forgot to mention beheaded babies.
Obviously “information” designed to keep the money flowing!
Interesting. Now Hamas wants a truce. They should’ve thought of that before their little October 7th terrorist adventure.
They knew what they were doing, and they played the Likud like a fiddle
There are 10,000 plus families in Gaza that will disagree with you.
No, they wanted a truce from the start… Now Israel wants a truce. They see how the World is turning against them.
Let’s hope they don’t employ the Samson Option because of it. But their own National Anthem states that “the whole world is against us”, anyway. 🙂
Israel lives by PR and the fear in the hearts of U.S. congressmen/women for AIPAC. I ask myself, “why?”. It is beyond ridiculous.
“No, they wanted a truce from the start” They wanted a truce on Oct 7?
That was the moment to ceasefire and negotiate… Israel wouldn’t be in the fix its in today if they had.
By exposing once again their anti-human nature, Zionists united all Muslim world against themselves.
For decades the Arabs have been pleading for a 2 state solution. All that Israel had to do was pick up the phone and discuss peace.
Israel are out and out liars. Example……Hamas is beheading babies………There is so far no recorded deaths of children under the age of three on the 7th October
And Arabs could have had a two state solution, if they did not demand the “right of return”. Why didn’t they agree to that to get the two state solution?
History is quite clear on this.
Yes, History is quite clear. The Palestinians have missed many chances for their own nation by demanding the “the right to return” which is not going happen.
Hamas refused to negotiate at Oslo and thereafter.
“Israel are out and out liars”
Zionism is based upon a big lie about “ancient Israel”. Nothing of the kind ever existed in reality.
Only the coins and the Temple prove otherwise.
There are a lot of old coins and old temples in the world. Anyone is free to invent fairy tales about them. Fairy tales prove nothing.
Who destroyed Olso,refused the Trump deal-Arabs.
The Zionists should have thought about things 75 years ago. Or 16 years ago when the blockade was put up. I ran across this talk by a Rabbi. It is the truth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIX368TtOJs I do hope you watch it.
This was always going to come down to a prisoner swap and negotiated truce.
I think maybe IDF casualties are higher than what is being reported.
Israel will not give up all 5,000 of their hostages. The exchange will be for non-combatants. If the last prisoner swap means anything, soldiers are more important than civilians.
Yes, soldiers are more important than civilians to IDF because Israel has spent money on them training and feeding them, and they are not easily replaceable…! As for civilians most do not want to become soldiers…!
There is universal military service in Israel.Most people don’t want to go to war,most people don’t want to pay taxes-but they do.
it will be a cold day before Israel comes to a ceasefire or a peace deal IMHO. Until Israel completes its extermination of the Palestinians backed by the US unlimited weapons production this slaughter and Genocide will continue no matter how many people in the streets protest. The protesters have no power to disrupt the war machines responsible for this.
The protesters have no power to disrupt the war machines responsible for this.
Don’t you believe it!.. Protests work, you just got to be persistent. I don’t believe this deal would have come about without it.
Agreed, casting a bright light on the hypocrisy and sheer inhumanity of
America’s and Europe’s blatant racism makes their respective voting
populations angry, and this translates into worry over election
prospects and all those perks of power they value above all else.
Sorry, but Disqus doesn’t know how to format paragraphs today – inserting imaginary spaces to make this harder to read? Could we trade Disqus to Israel to free some more Palestinians from Israeli prisons?
I recall in the early 80s marching outside the British Consulate in NYC during the Hunger Strike. The NYPD being Irish in their DNA gave up most of 3rd Ave to us for weeks as one after another IRA volunteer died. After Bobby Sands died the Brits took in their flag from outside the building. After the tenth man perished in the strike, Thatcher capitulated to all but one demand – ( ironically, that bit of stubbornness resulted in the largest jailbrake in British history ) – Now Sinn Fein is the dominant political in the North and South and on the verge of uniting the Nation Once Again.
It was the sacrifice of these martyrs and the growing pressure from abroad that won the day.
Sláinte
Well, the peaceful judicial protests didn’t work after so many months…!? So, the persistent protests only work sometimes…!
Just because they cleared the square doesn’t mean the crowds won’t be back.
Anyway, a intramural squabble within the Zionist community won’t hurt the chances for a Palestinian victory.
Correct. This is just a pause to quiet the bad PR. Netanyahu will find some loophole to fire things up again. His father taught him well. Jabotinsky taught his father well. Monsters.
The Palestinians are far from being exterminated-meanwhile libbs are calling from the river to the sea-in other words-genocide.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a deal earlier in the conflict that would have involved a five-day ceasefire in exchange for Hamas freeing children, women, the elderly, and sick people.
A lot has changed in a few weeks.. Israel is looking for an exit ramp.
Public opinion, plus folks in the U.S. administration chiming in. Bad PR. Viola’, a little concession. Maybe. What about the other 5,000 Palestinians languishing in Israeli jails? Some are children. Our strategy guys and their strategy guys are a strategizing. No morality, decency, just strategizing.
They should be put on trial. Some have blood ontheir hands.
“Last week there was an effort from the Qatari brothers to release the enemy captives from women and children, in return for the release of 200 Palestinian children and 75 women detained by the enemy,” said Abu Ubaida, spokesman for al-Qassam Brigades, according to Reuters.
I guess hosting US troops and allowing yourself to be bribed (Abraham Accords) means the Lindsey Grahams of the world aren’t calling for military action against Qatar.
I would propose including the Israeli executive branch in the exchange, so they can be tried in Gaza.
@charliekirk11
Why is the WSJ publishing two members of the Israeli government telling America and Europe it’s our job to take refugees from Gaza?
How about hell no?
If Gazans are too dangerous for Israel, they’re too dangerous for us, too. America isn’t the world’s landfill.
Two members of the Israeli government??? Since when does it take more than one to give orders to our incapacitated president?
Plenty of space in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
We oppose ethnic cleansing.
A truce is just time to escape and act up at a later date. There are many countries that would gladly assist in an exchange of hostages,
Ritter – Oct 7 – ‘The Number One Killer Of Israelis
Wasn’t Hamas Or Other Palestinian Factions…
(It Was) The Israeli Military Itself’
https://www.scottritterextra.com/p/the-october-7-hamas-assault-on-israel?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
wow they were shooting their own people? what a surprise.
hey what if there actually are no hostages.
i’m not suggesting that there aren’t but would that really be such a stretch of the imagination?
Gaza Israel Has Longtime Policy of False Flags
“The state…. must see the sword as the main if not the only instrument with which to keep its morale high and to retain its moral tension. Toward this end it may — no it MUST — invent dangers, and to do this it must adopt the method of provocation and revenge…. And above all, let us hope for a new war with the Arab countries so that we may finally get rid of our troubles and acquire our space.”
…… Moshe Dayan May 1955
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=275658
Yeah, I read this last week sometime. I thought the Israelis even had a name for it.
Two Israeli survivors attested to it. Attacked by their own folks, with guns, a tank, Apache helicopters (with confused pilots).
Yes,Hamas entered Israel to give out flowers.
It makes sense. More Israelis are killed – stronger argument had Satanyahu to convince his NATO friends that the ethnic cleansing in Gaza is okay.
My impression is that the pilots were not confused. They were ordered to kill Hamas wherever they were sheltering regardless of who else was there.
They might have been in disbelief, but hardly confused.
The answer to bad speech isn’t censorship, its more good speech.
Donetsk in 2014-2015 looked exactly like Gaza today. Yatsenyuk and Poroshenko were left free to ethnically cleanse, mass murder and collectively punish the Donbass. We were all OK with that though right? Cos you know we just hate Russia so much.
In the Donbass we see what an appropriate response to ethnic cleansing, collective punishment, mass murder and genocide is…..ARMED RESISTANCE. The resistance against NATO in Ukraine has destroyed; 534 Aircraft, 254 helicopters, 8881 UAV’s, 441 Anti Aircraft systems, 13383 tanks inc. APC’s, 1183 multiple rocket launchers, 7073 field artillery and 15237 military automotive equipment. Approx. $1 Trillion of NATO hardware.
WW3 started in Ukraine in 2014 according to Jens Stoltenberg NATO Secretary General. The combined Western NATO nations overthrew the government in a violent bloody coup and installed Nazi’s in power.
The United States of Atrocities will choke on Moscow’s terms for peace in Ukraine. Make no mistake its a huge defeat for Nazism and NATO.
This is article is about the Gaza war.
You cant look at Gaza in isolation, As NATO is defeated in Europe they have moved the war back to the ME. Its all a global war on humanity.
The West uses ethnic cleansing, mass murder, collective punishment and genocide as a means of achieving corporate revenue goals.
Remember when Madeline Albright boasted about the death of 500,000 Iraqi children? The control of oil for Western corporations was the goal. The children are just collateral damage as they are now in Gaza.
Nice try. But there is no relationship. The only reason you post that pure nonsense here about 500 plus NATO planes being destroyed is because no one is reading about Ukraine right now.
In reductionist terms, we are talking about basic ’cause and effect’, with regard to the entire situation.
Notice as i bring more hard reality to the discussions here, this publication has started to threaten my ability to speak, its called fascism.
There funders are linked to Israel occupation and genocide in Gaza. They will ban me, you cant say the things i say and not pay the price. You know democracy, human rights and Freedom.
And yet you keep saying the things you say, and 99.9% of the time you do so without consequence of any kind.
No one’s threatening your ability to speak. Whether you get to use Antiwar.com’s microphone to increase the audience for your speech is Antiwar.com’s decision to make.
And if you continue attempting to damage our ability to raise funds by lying about our donors, that decision will become “no.”
C’mon, Thomas. Spreading false claims about antiwar.com’s funders is not hate speech. Let the troll roll!
Our guidelines restrictions are not limited to “hate speech.”
Ive been threatened and abused by a lot better than you. You really want me to post the history and details of your funders?
Your problem is that i know exactly who you are.
Our funders are our readers. If you dox or otherwise abuse them, you’ll be gone.
That’s not a “threat.” Antiwar.com has rules for the use of the services it provides, and those rules apply to you, that’s all. No matter how special your mother tells you you are, you’re not special here.
Now you know thats not true. Some are your readers but not all.
I will not be Doxing any one person, thats BS behavior. Not that i could anyway.
However your major Funders are in the public Domain, quick search provided all the info i needed to know.
Like i said I have been threatened and abused by a lot better than you. The path you are taking is anti-domocratic, fascist and bullying.
And why would you do this……because i tell the truth and will not bow down to your threats and bullying. Hence your conflict with me personally.
To the best of my knowledge, yes, that’s all. But I do admit that I’m not involved in the accounting, etc. here. I know the FBI investigated us for years, presumably hoping to find that we receive money from non-US regimes, organizations on the “terror” list, or whatever. If they’d found anything, we’d have likely been shut down.
I am not and have not suggested your major contributor’s have committed any crime. And like me they have a right to free speech as well.
“threaten my ability to speak” No one is threatening your ability to speak. If this publication choose to shut you down, that is their right.
Remember when Madeline Albright boasted about the death of 500,000 Iraqi children? The control of oil for Western corporations was the goal. The children are just collateral damage as they are now in Gaza.
Its just so obvious. The MSM will report on what ever the Western Corporations tell them to report on. Look at Julian Assange, if they don’t they will be arrested and thrown in jail for life.
The worst crime in the West is to tell the truth.
And some people see everything through a special template.
It’s kind a tossup between whether he/she is just a self-brainwashing troll, or an employee of the Ukrainian regime’s propaganda/disinformation apparatus. I lean toward the former. But either way, nobody both sane and honest would attempt to give the Russians a helping hand by posting such obviously self-discrediting bullshit.
But why does he get so many up votes?
We have a varied commentariat here, including people who enjoy various flavors of Kool-Aid, not all of them necessarily anti-war.
“Donetsk in 2014-2015 looked exactly like Gaza today. Yatsenyuk and Poroshenko were left free to ethnically cleanse, mass murder and collectively punish the Donbass. We were all OK with that though right? Cos you know we just hate Russia so much.”
Well, if you were OK with that, shame on you. Most of us here were the opposite of OK with that from the start, and publicly said so for years before you showed up here.
Good for you and good on this publication. I read some of the articles back then.
The defeat of US and NATO on the battlefield is followed by their geopolitical defeat. The global South is siding with Russia and China against Nazism, Zionism and American imperialism.
QUESTION:
Bibi, Biden and Blinken
Went to the Jordan to bathe
All three schmucks were drowned
So who do you think was saved?
ANSWER: Everybody else
LOL Good one 😉
I hope the fish are OK.
This is shameful to the infinite degree! The USA, a nation that prides itself on fighting for “freedom and democracy”, throws the Palestinians (again!) to the wolves, trashing those cherished concepts because its “leaders” are more interested in personal gain and power than standing up for the women, children and men who are systematically being slaughtered before the whole world as a result of a LIE-INFESTED narrative about October 7! Doesn’t it make ya proud Americans that your government can help an aggressor/occupier nation drop bombs on women, children and old people and no one with any influence on the matter has the courage or morality to make even a whimper of protest! SHAME SHAME SHAME on the USA!!! I voted for Trump twice but right now I will NOT give a penny to any party that will not address the plight of the Palestinians!