Israel has informed Egyptian mediators that Hamas has one week to agree to a hostage deal or Tel Aviv will begin the invasion of Rafah. The Israeli proposal does not offer a permanent ceasefire, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared the attack on the city will occur with or without the release of hostages.
Egyptian negotiators informed the Wall Street Journal about Israel’s one-week deadline on Friday. Tel Aviv’s latest proposal calls for Hamas to release 33 hostages over 40 days while mediators try to hammer out an agreement for the remaining 100 captives.
The Israeli offer does not satisfy Hamas’s core demand that Tel Aviv agree to a permanent end to the fighting. A Hamas delegation is expected to arrive in Egypt on Saturday to continue negotiations, with CIA Director William Burns also set to travel to Cairo for the talks.
On Tuesday, Netanyahu said that the invasion of Rafah would happen with or without a hostage deal. “The idea that we will halt the war before achieving all of its goals is out of the question,” the PM told representatives of hostage families. “We will enter Rafah and we will eliminate the Hamas battalions there – with or without a deal, in order to achieve the total victory.”
Throughout Israel’s seven-month onslaught in Gaza, the IDF has driven Palestinian civilians to the south, toward the border with Egypt. Now, 1.5 million people are packed into the southern city of Rafah, where humanitarian organizations have warned of catastrophe should Israel press on with a ground assault.
The White House is not opposed to an attack on Rafah but says Israel must present a plan to account for the civilians before operations begin. On Friday, POLITICO reported that Tel Aviv had informed aid agencies and Washington that the Palestinians would be pushed into the al-Mawasi area just north of Rafah and given tents.
In January, +972 Magazine reported that al-Mawasi was already overcrowded. Additionally, the region lacks the infrastructure needed to sustain life. One displaced Palestine in al-Mawasi told the outlet, “I don’t know what happened to my house, but I cannot live in this desert,” she said.
“There is no water and no food. My children are going to sleep hungry, and I don’t know what to do for them,” she continued. “They wake up at night in pain from the cold. I tell them that tomorrow we will return home. Be patient. I do not know if I am being honest. But I do hope to return home. No one is comfortable here.”
An Israeli official said soldiers are waiting for orders to attack Rafah. “Soldiers are on call waiting. If we’re going to go in, maybe that’s the only thing that will get Hamas to sign a temporary cease-fire and return some of our hostages,” Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, Israel’s special envoy for foreign affairs, explained. “We will go into Rafah – we have to at some point because the five last battalions of Hamas terrorists are there.”
Interesting. Bibi has already said there would be an invasion whether or not there would be a hostage deal. There was never any real concern for the hostages.
Exactly so.
There is no concern for any lives, not Palestinian and not Israeli lives.
These reports are becoming surreal in their disconnect from reality.
Last I heard Israel doesn’t even have forces poised to enter Rafah. Everything has been withdrawn to the central area of Gaza from which Israeli raids are done which run into the Palestinian Resistance which then forces the Israelis back out of their positions with heavy casualties. Some Israeli units are refusing to continue the fight, forcing the Israelis to recruit the more fanatical religious Zionists to form units.
Hamas isn’t even remotely losing this war. And most of Israel’s forces are in the north preparing for the invasion of Lebanon – where they, too, are suffering heavy casualties from Hezbollah attacks, having lost around 100 tanks from Hezbollah anti-tank weapons and drones, as well as losing their ISR outposts and Iron Dome installations.
There’s no such thing as “the last five Hamas battalions” – that’s pure BS. Hamas has lost probably no more than ten to fifteen percent of its capability.
Your arrogance is only matched by your ignorance and your callousness. Once again, you are talking nonsense. Israel can attack Rafah with missiles and bombs in minutes and kill tens of thousands of Palestinians. But you don’t care.
For you war is a game and you seem to enjoy and glorify the carnage. Yes, Israel is unable to defeat Hamas in an asymmetric war of resistance on Hamas’ home territory where Hamas has the support of its people. But unlike armchair soldiers like you, Hamas cares about the Palestinian people. Hamas IS the Palestinian people. And the Palestinian people ARE Hamas. Every child killed by the Israelis is a loss deeply felt by Hamas. And Hamas knows full well that a premature release of the Israeli POWs will lead to increased and escalated genocidal carnage.
Che Gueverra said “A revolutionary is motivated by great feelings of love [for the people]” Hamas will make a difficult choice about how to respond to Netanyahu’s ultimatum. Whatever that choice is, it will be motivated by Hamas’ love for its people, not your macho kick-ass fantasies. STFU.
Your arrogance is only matched by your ignorance and your callousness. Once again, you are talking nonsense. Israel can attack Rafah with missiles and bombs in minutes and kill tens of thousands of Palestinians. But you don’t care.
For you war is a game and you seem to enjoy and glorify the carnage. Yes, Israel is unable to defeat Hamas in an asymmetric war of resistance on Hamas’ home territory where Hamas has the support of its people. But unlike armchair soldiers like you, Hamas cares about the Palestinian people. Hamas IS the Palestinian people. And the Palestinian people ARE Hamas. Every child killed by the Israelis is a loss deeply felt by Hamas. And Hamas knows full well that a premature release of the Israeli POWs will lead to increased and escalated genocidal carnage.
Che Gueverra said “A revolutionary is motivated by great feelings of love [for the people]” Hamas will make a difficult choice about how to respond to Netanyahu’s ultimatum. Whatever that choice is, it will be motivated by Hamas’ love for its people, not your macho kick-ass fantasies. STFU.
The poster referenced the battlefield situation. I saw no discussion of the issue of civilian casualties or any implication that Hamas does not have the interests of the civilians in mind.
As for the entire situation, what aggravates me to the point of writing off this entire administration as a bunch of low-life killers, is the nearly complete suppression of voices in the US opposed to this administration’s grotesque endorsement of uncontrolled violence being directed toward the civilian population of Gaza.
To the extent that there is a war there, justice would be served if the IDF – which IMO is nothing but a mob in uniform – got its ass handed to it there.
“The poster referenced the battlefield situation.”
***Hack has no understanding of the battlefield situation. The Palestinians have no air defenses.
And Hamas C&C is significantly disrupted. Hamas admits it doesn’t even know how many so-called hostages are still alive. There is no way anyone, including Hamas, can know how many batalions are still operational. ***
” I saw no discussion of the
issue of civilian casualties”
***Exactly the problem with Hack’s infantile macho bluster. ***
“or any implication that Hamas does not have the interests of the civilians in mind.”
***Hamas cares about the civilians. Hack does not. I have been reading his macho posts for years.***
“As for the entire situation, what aggravates me to the point of writing off this entire administration as a bunch of low-life killers, is the nearly complete suppression of voices in the US opposed to this administration’s grotesque endorsement of uncontrolled violence being directed toward the civilian population of Gaza.”
***We agree on this.***
“To the extent that there is a war
there, justice would be served if the IDF – which IMO is nothing but a
mob in uniform – got its ass handed to it there.”
***This is not about justice for the IDF killers, but justice for their Palestinian victims. Hack has been posting for years glorifying war from behind his keyboard without any evidence of empathy for the victims, in this case the thousands of Palestinians who will die if there is an assault on Rafah or if Hamas releases its Israeli prisoners without a final termination of hostilities. Let’s trust Hamas to make the best choice for the Palestinian people for their present and their future. And let’s respect that choice, not just cheer on the carnage.***
Have a nice weekend.
“Hack has no understanding of the battlefield situation.”
And neither do you, Shmi.
Neither do I, or anyone Commenting here, nor even learn’d Mod Knappster himself.
RS Hacker has made a balanced, insightful assessment based on the information he DOES have; and which WE have too, thanks to antiwar’s excellent coallation of reliable sources.
I am inclined to agree with RS’s tentative view on the matter. I am inclined to agree with your anger about the situation, Shmi, but that emotional turmoil does not and should not extend to pragmatic and practical assessments of the information as-presented, as RS Hacker has offered.
In my eyes it is not even a war, it is a massacre on unarmed defenseless people, 70% women and children by undisciplined IDF soldiers.
Every single Palestinian, all 100% is severely traumatized, including new born children if they survive it. Not one of the Israeli IDF sc*um has experienced anything close to what these children have already endured.
“Hamas cares about the Palestinian people.” 30,000 + Palestinians are dead because Hamas stupid decision to attack Israel. Hamas knew Israel would hit back hard and Hamas simply did not care how many Palestinians would die in the counter act.
The Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza still support October 7th and they support Hamas because the Palestinian people want to resist the Zionist colonization project. Hamas would have been wiped out months ago if it did not have the support of the Palestinian people. That is the difference between national resistance groups like Hamas and terrorist outfits like Isis or al-Qaeda that have never been able to hold territory because they are hated by the people.
I didn’t say that the Palestinians did not support Hamas. What I said is that Hamas does not care about how many Palestinians they lose in this war.
Hamas has grown and matured in many ways since they were an extremist sectarian fringe group in 1988. During the Second Intifada around 2001 some Palestinian teenagers were beginning to train and become suicide bombers. Hamas launched a campaign aimed at the youth and their parents to put an end to child suicide bombing. The theme of Hamas’ campaign was that the Palestinian youth were the future they were fighting for and needed to be nurtured and protected, not martyred. Hamas has grown stronger because it embodies the will of the people of Palestine to resist the Zionist colonization project. If Hamas had a callous and uncaring attitude toward the people, they would not support it. A resistance movement cannot survive in an asymmetric war of national resistance unless it has the support of the people. That support, which is manifest in Gaza, has to be earned. In the eyes of the Palestinian people who protect it, Hamas has earned their support. On the other hand, it is the Palestinian Authority that is losing support of the Palestinian people precisely because the PA does not fight the occupation, but collaborates with Israel.
” If Hamas had a callous and uncaring attitude toward the people, they would not support it.”
True. Which is why Hamas brought in Israel as its heavy last October after having to violently put down street protests against its misrule last August, and even after executing dissidents as “Israeli spies” didn’t cow the Palestinian street into submission.
I have no doubt that there are some people in Gaza who don’t support Hamas. But I don’t trust the MSM to distinguish between dissidents and collaborators. In asymmetric wars of national liberation, the liberation movements operate on the run and underground and can’t observe the niceties of due process. Collaborators have been summarily executed by the Viet Cong, the FLN in Algeria, the ANC in South Africa, ZANU, the Cuban revolutionaries, the IRA and in the American Revolution. I don’t support everything any group, including Hamas, does nor do I unquestioningly accept anyone’spropaganda. But I believe the polls that show that most Palestinians support the October 7th attacks, oppose the PA, support armed struggle and that Hamas is more popular than any other Palestinian faction except for Islamic Jihad. I believe the polls because Hamas could not have survived the 17 year siege or the current IDF onslaught unless it had widespread support among the people in Gaza.
Apparently Hamas didn’t believe the polls, or they would have held elections at some time in the last 18 years.
C’mon, Thomas! It is impossible to hold elections during an occupation. If Hamas candidates show themselves they will be assassinated by Israeli drones and the air force . And people would be massacred at the polling places. An underground resistance simply cannot survive and thrive without popular support. Look at what happened to the so-called Islamic state. Or how the people of Gaza evicted the PA. If people preferred the PA to Hamas they would not have been kicked out of Gaza and too scared to call elections in the West Bank. You are too smart to fall for MSM propaganda.
Good gravy – you attack RS Hacker for seemingly gloating over the prospect of the IDF attacking Hamassian forces in Rafah; now you fawn over Hamas to Timmy as if you didn’t take the opposite tone just a couple Comments above.
A dios mio, Shmi – PICK A LANE.
Tim, Hamas are the siblings, the children of the Palestinian people for whom Hamas fights and they are willing to die for.
They care for the people, their family. They fight for better lives, life worth living.
And you think, for some ungodly reason, that this makes the Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza justified. It doesn’t.
Tim your lesson for today is:
Genocide isn’t self defense
Resistance isn’t terror
And peace here is your lessons. Urban combat produces civilians deaths, that is not genocide. And resistance is terror when it is direct at civilians.
“Urban combat produces civilians deaths, that is not genocide.”
When all the combat is urban, and the ASI has stated a) no daylight between civilians and Hamassian regulars, and b) the intent to wipe out all Hamas (read : all Palestinians in Gaza), well, the intent is genocide regardless of terrain, biome, or setting.
Your lessonis that Oct 7 was a war crime perpetrated by Hamas-read it,learn,accept,feel better.
To repeat:
Your beef is with the IDF who massacred 400+ Israelis that day
The number of dead passed 30,000 long ago. And they are dead because the Israeli’s are ruthless killers. Whether Hamas cares about the Palestinians in Gaza doesn’t change that. And the Hamas attack doesn’t justify or exonerate Israel for their genocidal response. It’s really quite simple and even a simpleton like you should be able to figure that out.
Israel counter attack was and is justified. You just don’t understand. Hamas fighters are hiding in and under the city. That is why civilians along with Hamas fighters have died.
So they hide under the city, the IDF HAS TANKS, HELICOPTERS AND 2000 POUND BOMBS, white phosphor and more, and they deny food and medical supply to Palestinians, including women and children. That is how they kill women and children.
And Hamas dares to kill Israelis, how dare they do that? They are really brutal people.
The civilians are sleeping in their homes or tents not under the city when the IAF bombs them. There are no air raid shelters no sirens warning them.
You have a double standard and act like a cry baby for the IDF cowards. Their snipers kill children among other crimes.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: “We must obliterate Rafah, Deir al-Balah, and Nuseirat. The memory of the Amalekites must be erased. No partial destruction will suffice; only absolute and complete devastation.”
Exactly.
Some Commenters (Timmy, “Sully” jake, Donald) have the amazing ability to “read between the lines, and then ignore the lines”.
Thousands upon thousands of women and children are being killed because Israel is making terrorism their standard for rules of engagement. Their actions are neither justified nor legal under international law. But that’s what terrorists do, and Israel is now without peers when it comes to terrorism.
Justified ? Yes.
Proportionate ? Good Christ, no.
30,000 + Palestinians are dead because of people like you.
Go to hell.
No, supporters of Hamas are the reason so many Palestinians are dead which of course include 10,000 Hamas fighters. The longer Hamas received support the longer the war go on and people will die.
The longer Israelis receive military support the longer they will kill unarmed Palestinians, including women and children. Why can’t Israelis end the slaughter, they are the butchers of the Palestinians, not the other way around. Even Oct. 7 most Israelis were killed by untrained Israelis, they had the weapons to do it, Hamas did not.
That is why they do not investigate it, they know what happened. Kibbutz are military posts, you do know that.
There are so many dead Palestinians because Israel is a ruthless terrorist state. They have no peers. The designated terrorist organization, Hamas, can only aspire to be as ruthless.
It’s amazing, you condemn Hamas violence, yet use it to justify the violence that we all know Israel is capable of. The Hamas attack was horrible, but killing an entire population of people, 50% of which are children, that is called ethnic cleansing and considered a genocide by everyone except supporters of Zionism. You celebrate Israel’s violence, as if it’s an acceptable thing. Many people have always seen israel as violent oppressors, who use the techniques of terrorism to take land that has been occupied by Palestinians for centuries.
You cannot condemn violence and commit violence at the same time. Zionism is clearly a violent cult that needs dismantling just as much as Hamas At least hamas isn’t telling the u.s. government what to do and say, like the zionists destroying the u.s. constitution to sanctify their genocide.
When all is told we will find out, most of the Oct. 7 victims were killed by the ill trained and undisciplined Israeli IDF thugs, the real war criminals.
The Zionists are too ignorant to see what all that brutality does to their own young people, the future leaders.
Hamas is fighting for self-preservation, against almost a century of slow motion genocide with periodic massacre’s of their people. A true self defense against the ruthless and brutal Israelis.
I don’t celebrate the deaths of Gaza children. What I do is blame Hamas for putting them in harms way. And Hamas supporters just prolong the war.
Why not blame the Israeli oppressors who deny the people basic human rights for which they are fighting. Wouldn’t you if you were in their position?
The Israelis have prolonged the slaughter of the Palestinians. Not Hamas, the Western nations have silently watched the human rights abuses and the killings for decades and did nothing, only Hamas cares about the people, not genocide Joe and the butcher Netanyahu.
But you ignore the willingness of the IDF to kill women and children and you claim it’s justified. You’re scum.
“Objection, Your Honour – stating facts already entered into evidence.”
“…putting them in harms way.”
All of Gaza is “in harm’s way”. Which is exactly where the IDF command and the ASI government want these Palestinians.
Hamas people know nothing will change, it will only get worse if they don’t fight back. They are real people fighting for their families, parents and siblings and themselves, without human rights their is no life worth calling life.
Many thousands of Palestinians have been killed in almost a century of a slow-moving genocide the oh so great Western powers did nothing to stop. Abbas on the WB has done nothing to protect the Palestinian people against the NY criminals robbing and killing Palestinians including children on the WB.
What have you done, Tim Burns, to stop killing children by starving them to death? All you do is to blame Hamas, look in the mirror and see your guilt of supporting brutal genocide. Yes, you are guilty.
Hamas’ are fighting for a life with dignity for the Palestinians.
What I understand and you don’t, is deaths in Gaza are direct result of terrorists like Hamas and supporters of terrorists like you. Sure many thousands of Palestinians have died in the last 75 years and so have 1000s of citizens of Israel.
You don’t understand what I do understand. When you treat people as brutally as the Israelis treat the Palestinian people you create RESISTANCE, that is what Hamas does, they resist the inhuman treatment and fight for their human rights. They broke out of the concentration camp, can’t you understand that?
You say “MANY THOUSANDS of Palestinians have died “in the last 75 years and so have “1000s of citizens of Israel” please be more specific. There are statistics about massacres of Palestinians when and where did have the Israelis died?
The Zionist terrorists have killed many Palestinians and so have the untrained, undisciplined dehumanized IDF thugs. The brutal treatment by Israelis on Palestinians, including children is unimaginable, and you can’t deny it. The world is turning against the USA and Israel, if you are honest with yourself you will understand why. The ugly American and the ugly Israeli-Zionist.
“What I understand and you don’t, is deaths in Gaza are direct result of terrorists”
Yes, they are. The Israeli terrorists that are supplied by the US.
There may be a misunderstanding because Richard ‘s post is supporting your post from another point of view.
Well, guess what, moron? You’re blocked.
I disagree, Shmi. RS Hacker’s post(s) indicate a focus on the facts and reasonable inferences from the facts, with NONE of the “bloodlust” or “callousness” or “enjoyment” we see from, oh, Commenters like Timmy or “Sully” jake.
Not liking someone’s assessment of the facts does not make your caricature of them accurate.
Meanwhile the Hamas has caused the deaths of 34,000 of its own people,seen the destruction of Gaza,and wishes to continue getting its people destroyed.Release all hostages forthwith,or suffer the consequences.
As far as I can tell, the Israelis don’t use military forces on the ground, there is no opposing army. All they know is to bomb unprotected civilians and after all is in ruins they use their armored vehicles to kill every survivor they come across. All I see is undisciplined IDF soldiers celebrating their success stories they send out on the internet.
Not quite. The Israelis are still doing raids. although you are correct that they aren’t trying to directly engage Hamas – because they can’t. Hamas pops up from tunnels inside ruined buildings, sneak around using IEDs and antitank weapons and snipers and kill Israeli troops right and left. The Israelis wander around unable to find any Hamas troops. Unless the Israelis can immediately zero in artillery fire on a Hamas attack point, they can’t kill any Hamas because the Hamas troops dive back into a tunnel and disappear.
Watch Jon Elmer’s reports on The Electronic Intifida Youtube channel. Every week or ten days they do a 2-3 hour live report on the situation, and Elmer gives a report using videos released by Hamas and Hezbollah. He does a very good analysis of how effective these attacks are.
Richard Medhurst also shows some of these videos from time to time, especially from Hezbollah and now even the Houthis are releasing drone footage of their attacks on shipping.
Don’t the Israelis claim they know all about the tunnels? Right they can make claims to know all about the tunnels so far it has not worked out with no credible evidence, not even the tunnels under the hospital were what they said they are.
Yea, this will really go down according to their plan.
When the aggressor announces when they will attack, it proves that in this case it’s a planned slaughter.
Only Biden can stop the genocide.
Only Americans can pressure the Democrats to stop Biden’s genocide.
The students are leading the way.
I urge everyone who cares about Gaza to contact the student encampment on your nearest campus and see what you can do to help the students.
The American people overwhelmingly want a cease fire and a cut off of military aid to Israel. We need to show the politicians in both parties that there is a cost at the polls of supporting genocide.
Columbia University has been on lockdown since yesterday morning.
Not just the campus but the whole neighborhood.
The graduation will be a disaster.
Theres no way Eric Adams can sustain this or stop the students from voicing their resentment of the CU administration.
Today is the calm before the storm.
Not going to happen, unfortunately. The entire rotted core of DC is Zionist occupied territory, beholden to a handful of wealthy donors. The American Republic is as dead as the Roman Republic.
Still it is important to resist if you can. You don’t need to win every fight, you just need to show the bullies that you will fight. Peacefully and non-violently (hear that, NSA spook reading this message?)
How about if GOD gives Israel, one more effing week?! I just gave him the suggestion about HELL for the chosen people, at least the ones that are a-holes and Christ can show them the way….!
;-/
You have some great ideas Donna V.
Love- Father ;-}
Washington Post and Haaretz are reporting that the US is ordering the Qataris to expel the Hamas leadership if Hamas does not accept Netanyahu’s ultimatum.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/05/03/us-qatar-hamas-hostages-ceasefire/
The biggest US base in the Middle East is in Qatar and the WP reports that the Qataris have told Hamas to get a backup plan to relocate its leadership.
The Arab people will murder the royals in their beds.
It’ll be the US troops that will be expelled – one way or the other.
Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
I’m sure South Africa will accept Hamas leaderships.
A Hobson’s choice at its worst.
“Israel Gives Hamas One Week To Accept Hostage Deal:” Release them and cut your own throat. What kind of a “deal” is a “deal” they can’t accept?
I am trying to visualize who the “last five Hamas Battalions” are? Are they the infants wearing diapers? Are they the children playing outside? Are they the crippled in wheel chairs? Maybe it is the pregnant women? Doctors, it must be the doctors, nurses, care givers, right? How about the aid workers? How about the Journalist? Given the backgrounds of those slaughtered by Netanyahu, his Zionist Thugs, going into Rafah means one thing, GENOCIDE of ALL Palestinians. The ICC better work faster, or they are blind, the whole world is watching these Crazed, Depraved, Blood Thirsty Zionist committing Genocide in REAL TIME, yet they can’t make a decision about issuing arrest warrants? The UN, how about sanctions against Israel/US/UK? How about taking Membership away from Israel? Do something, before WW111 starts.
Maybe it’s the people that oppose this massacre, like many of us on here. I’m certain the Zionists consider is the enemy, just a branch of hamas. They have no limits to their bloodlust, I’m sure they’d love to be rid of us all and are often found to say as much.
The hypocrisy of the UN is unbelievable. In 1962 the US and UK vetoed Security Council action against apartheid South Africa. The General Assembly responded by condemning apartheid and calling for an international economic, military and transportation boycott of South Africa. Several years later the General Assembly suspended South Africa’s membership, effectively expelling the apartheid regime from the UN. You can’t blame the US and the UK for the hypocrisy of the countries that are condemning Israel but continuing to trade and have diplomatic relations with the genocidal Zionist regime. China is Israel’s leading import trade partner. South Africa continues to export raw diamonds to Israel. Every day Israel imports 220,000 barrels of oil from African and Muslim OPEC+ countries. Without the daily oil imports Israel could not sustain its economy or the genocide in Gaza. Palestine needs real solidarity, like Turkey’s decision to freeze trade with Israel or the Houthi campaign against Israeli shipping.
In January, +972 Magazine reported that al-Mawasi was already overcrowded. Additionally, the region lacks the infrastructure needed to sustain life. One displaced Palestine in al-Mawasi told the outlet, “I don’t know what happened to my house, but I cannot live in this desert,” she said.
C’mon, they promised them tents.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/05/paul-craig-roberts/israel-relocates-to-washington-d-c/
I heard a former female hostage recount that all of the female hostages have been violated and sexually assaulted by Hamas soldiers. What an ugly situation.
Propaganda.
You’re just naive if you think that Hamas wouldn’t violate the female hostages.
What you heard could be part of the Israeli propaganda war .
A New York Times story claiming a pattern of gender-based violence on October 7 hinged on the story of Gal Abdush. But the Abdush family says there is no proof she was raped, and that Times reporters interviewed them under false pretenses.
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/family-of-key-case-in-new-york-times-october-7-sexual-violence-report-renounces-story-says-reporters-manipulated-them/
I didn’t read it in the NY Times. I saw an interview with her on I-24. It’s too easy to dismiss anything you don’t want to hear as someone else’s propaganda. I would say that your response is naive.
How close would you get to a %^&*(# woman?
Huh?
And here’s the Hamas response to reports over the last day that it would accept the agreement based on supposed “US guarantees”. Never believe reports of Hamas agreeing to anything unless it comes straight from Hamas.
Hamas Says It Will Not Agree To Truce That Does Not End War In Gaza
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-rafah-hamas-says-it-will-not-agree-to-truce-that-does-not-end-war-in-gaza-5590432
So much arrogance and insanity is incredible. By now we do know the Israelis will bomb the population, it will be the usual massacre, that is all the IDF thugs know, they could not fight a real army if there was one.
… And Hamas gives Israel one week for permanent ceasefire and complete evacuation of Gaza or get fu*ked…!
There is little reason, at this point, to take anything anything the Israelis say at face value. Including their expressions of concern over the well-being of Israeli hostages held by Hamas.
“ “Unfortunately, there was a clear statement from Netanyahu saying that regardless to what may happen, if there was a ceasefire or not, he will continue the attack,” Hamdan said. “That means there will be no ceasefire, and that means that the attack will be continued, which is against what we are discussing.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/4/progress-in-gaza-truce-talks-but-israel-still-set-on-rafah-ground-attack
Meanwhile
“ The Israeli cabinet has voted unanimously to close Al Jazeera’s operations in the country. The communications minister says the orders against the network “will go into effect immediately”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/5/israels-war-on-gaza-live-neither-side-willing-to-budge-in-truce-talks
https://www.rt.com/news/597017-israel-hostage-deal-truce/
Israel ready for temporary truce with Hamas – Netanyahu
Israel wants the release of hostages, but will not “surrender” to the Palestinian militant group, the prime minister said
If the Israelis were systematically murdering Palestinians in Israeli prisons, few outsiders would know and Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu wouldn’t care.
The Israeli president is playing with two bricks short of a full load. He’s definitely feeling the heat from relatives of hostages.