Israel rejected an offer made by Hamas through Qatari and Egyptian mediators on a new hostage deal, Axios reported on Monday.
Citing unnamed Israeli officials, the report said Israel received the offer on Sunday and conveyed that it was “unacceptable” the following day. The proposal included a three-phase process that would have started with Israel beginning to pull its forces from Gaza and Hamas releasing 40 hostages.
The proposed deal would have ended the Israeli onslaught on Gaza and the war altogether once the final phase was implemented, which would have involved Hamas releasing all the Israeli military personnel they had captive. But Israeli officials have vowed the assault on Gaza will continue through the entire year of 2024.
“The proposal we received from Hamas on Sunday was totally off base and we asked the mediators to try and produce a more acceptable proposal. They are working on it and let’s see what happens,” one Israeli official said.
While Israel rejected the deal, Israeli officials said the proposal showed Hamas is willing to negotiate despite previously saying there would be no talks until a full ceasefire.
But successful negotiations became much less likely on Tuesday as an apparent Israel dramatically escalated tensions in the region by launching a drone strike in Beirut and killing a senior Hamas official, Saleh al-Arouri, who was a key figure in the deal that led to the release of over 100 Israeli hostages and over 200 Palestinian prisoners.
It has been said before, so, let me say what has been said before. The crazed Zionists leading the Israeli government do not give a rat’s *ss about the hostages. By an account of one of the hostages, the IDF has killed perhaps 50 Israeli hostages with the bombings. The Zionists will continue until all Palestinians are dead or displaced, and, there will be a broader front to gather up more land and resources. They also do not care if we are dragged into the morass, which might be an easy thing to do with our current president (small cap on purpose for a small man).
Of COURSE Israel would reject a hostage deal or any deal to end this. They want this to continue until all the Palestinians are dead or pushed out of gaza.
Israel and the U.S. love war and misery. It creates a lot of wealth for the .1%. None of them want peace. Peace is not profitable.
Israel doesn’t care about the hostages. Israel doesn’t care about the misery and death they are inflicting on millions.
When will these psychopaths be locked up?
Or they just want to make sure Hamas never again pull another October 7 attack on the Israeli people.
Who’s going to make sure Israel doesn’t keep doing more of the repeated massacres it’s done to Palestine for the past 20 years?
Hamas, that’s who!
Oh please. If they were so worried about Hamas, they would treat Palestinians with human rights, instead of purposely seeding anger and desperation into the Palestinian population. How would you feel if a Jewish settler decided that your home was now theirs and kicked you out of it? That’s just one crime that is done to Palestinians. There are many more.
With this obvious genocide and ethnic cleansing, Israel is just creating more enemies, hatred and anger for itself.
Israel is just creating more enemies, hatred and anger for itself.
And US.
How do you think the Native Americans felt when they were slaughtered and displaced? Give your home away to one of their descendants.
A more damning admission of genocide could not be made.
I imagine i would feel the same way for the native Americans as I do for Palestinians today. I find it sad that humanity doesn’t learn from it’s past mistakes and horrors and try not to repeat them. But then there are only a small number of people making decisions like this that affect everyone, and all the rest of us are trying to make sense of it.
Israel wishes to greatly reduce Hamas strength. Many ‘Gazans will realize that Hamas brought them to ruin.
Hamas didn’t learn sh!t from Russia.
Surely they thought their Oct 7 attack was going to end the conflict forever. When you let Dumbasses plan your war.
The proposed deal would have ended the Israeli onslaught on Gaza and the war altogether once the final phase was implemented, which would have involved Hamas releasing all the Israeli military personnel they had captive. But Israeli officials have vowed the assault on Gaza will continue through the entire year of 2024.
wait, are we really going to pretend that the Palestinian army are holding Israeli military men hostage? really, how far will that BS go in the reality scheme of things.
edit) = at some point rational thinkers should start to question the official narrative that is the official fairy-tale of every official narrative.
wait, what ?
idiots
Israel has traded Palestinian hostages for captured IDF hostages before this particular set-to. Do you have some kind of information implying a change of tactics on the Palestinian side this time around?
change of tactics on the Palestinian,
It shows, even by the Israelis admission, that Hamas is willing to negotiate sans ceasefire despite it’s previous position.
It also demonstrates Israeli intransigents and lack of concern for the welfare of its own people. Nothing new there.
Dumbass baseless comments as usual.
Coming from you as usual.
The rotten child will never be humbled if mommy and daddy give him all he wants.
Not only did Israel reject the offer of hostages, they killed the Hamas hostage negotiator. He is the guy they just killed in Lebanon.