On Thursday, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad released three more Israeli hostages and five Thai nationals who were captured during the October 7 attack in exchange for the freeing of 110 Palestinians from Israeli jails.
The first Israeli hostage to be released, Agam Berger, a 20-year-old female soldier, was handed over to the Red Cross by Hamas in northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp, which had been completely destroyed by the Israeli military.
Later, Hamas and PIJ militants released a female Israeli civilian, Arbel Yehoud, 29, Gadi Mose, an 80-year-old man, and the five Thai nationals in the southern city of Khan Younis. The handover to the Red Cross was done in front of the destroyed home of Hamas’s slain leader, Yahya Sinwar.
The release of the seven hostages in Khan Younis drew a big crowd, and footage showed the captives surrounded by Hamas and PIJ militants, who were pushing through the crowd as they brought them to Red Cross officials. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delayed the release of Palestinians from Israeli jails over what he called “horrific scenes” from Gaza, but Israel later freed the Palestinians after the Israeli hostages reunited with their families.
The five Thai nationals met with Thai government officials and are on their way home to Thailand. They were working on farms in southern Israel when they were captured by Palestinian militants on October 7, 2023.
According to CNN, the Hamas Prisoner Media Office said the 110 Palestinians set to be released on Thursday included 30 children, 32 sentenced to life, and 48 given high sentences. Some of the prisoners were deported upon their release, and their families have been prevented from traveling to meet them.
Israel has been trying to prevent Palestinians from celebrating the prisoner releases, and according to Middle East Eye, Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd of Palestinians near a prison in the West Bank, injuring at least 12. The Israeli military also dropped threatening leaflets on Gaza, warning against celebrations.
Under the ceasefire deal, Hamas and Israel are supposed to begin negotiations on the second phase in the coming days. The ceasefire is incredibly fragile as Israel has killed more than 80 Palestinians in Gaza since it went into effect on January 19, and Israeli officials are threatening to restart the genocidal war.
Netanyahu has claimed he has a guarantee from President Trump to restart military operations if he chooses to do so, but Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, met with the Israeli leader on Wednesday and reportedly pushed for the full ceasefire deal to be implemented.
Joe Biden faces his legacy in a nightmare dream … Genocide!
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Sometimes I do wonder if there is a Hell for such criminals, if they actually go to Hell when they die (as they deserve, no doubt), like the Christo-Muslim legends say.
Then I wonder again: do they go to Hell or rather do they come from Hell?
Healthy cynicism Maju.
But to me that isn't good enough. I want to see it.
I’d be content with a fair popular trial and the resulting firing squad.
Or Mother Nature with a slow painful death.
Gaia is (literally in Basque language, last descendant of mainline European Neolithic) “the matter” and “the potential”, both. There’s much mysticism nowadays about the passive Yin but I’m, TBH, more in favor the active Yang side of things (which in Basque tradition would be Sugaar, i.e. the Male Snake or the Flame of Fire, and probably the same as Loki-Prometheus, in the subjugated Indoeuropeanized version). Ultimately both should be one and the same but not quite exactly identical.
Or, are they hell?
And who started this war? Oh that was Hamas and the Palestinians.
Hey Tim, glad to see you're alive and kicking. At least we are not one's to prevent you from celebrating Israel's victory. It look like the Palestinians started and finished this round.
At the cost of 50,000 dead, 100,000 people leaving Gaza and 1 million homeless.
Admitting to the magnitude of Israel's slaughter. Good for you. Not sure of what 100,000 you're talking about leaving, but good for you anyway.
Sure, freedom is expensive. Don't the Zionists say they waited 2000 years to come back and they lost 6 million in the holocaust in order to get a state?
Man. when will you stop? NOTHING justifies what Israel did. NOTHING!
Gaza started the war, they paid the price, which could of been higher.
For some reason you think that justifies what Israel did. It doesn't. Regardless of the fact that you ignore any history before Oct 7th, Israel's response to Oct 7th made Hamas' "terrorism" look passive in comparison. Israel's rules of engagement are undeniably terroristic in nature. Once more, Israel took absolutely no precautions when it came to ensuring the innocent people of Gaza's safety. NONE. They bombed evacuation sites made of plastic tents with 2,000 lb. bombs just like they did high rise apartments packed with women and children. But since you can never refute the numbers, you just go back to the mind-numbing bullshit you've been repeating for almost 16 months now. And the Hamas attack took place AFTER Israel was repeatedly warned. Another little fact that you continue to ignore.
This war started in 1948. Terrorism started before that, with terrorist acts performed by Irgun. Irgun's men later became the first members of the Likud party. Successive terrorist leaders of the Irgun terrorist organization include Moshe Dayan and Menachem Begin. Those are the men who started the war. And everyone knows it.
If you want to go back to 1948 and claim that his is just a continuation of that war, than who started that war. It was the Arab armies who refused to accept the UN agree partition plan and thus attacked the new nation of Israel. The Arabs agreed to ceasefire lines which Gaza violated on Oct 7.
As for terrorism acts before 1948 both sides were guilty of that.
The land was never the UN's to give. If it ever had been the case, then what the UN gave, the UN should be able to take away, in extreme cases of course, like crimes against humanity, genocide and the likes. Don't you agree?
Who agrees to the the ethnic cleansing and displacement of their own people?
Yes, terrorism started in 1929,with the massacre of peaceful unarmed Jews inHebron.
Nonsense. 1929 was a prelude to Zionist designs on Palestine. Palestinians welcomed Jews until they realized they were coming to supplant them.
Israel started this war by its violations of the Palestinian peoples! Where was the world when Israel, for OVER 70 YEARS, violated the rights of the people who lived on this land in the first place? No where! A violated people will eventually revolt if their legal redress is not forthcoming! And besides, Israel GLADLY let October 7 happen, standing down the IDF for SEVEN hours as Hamas took hostages, then unleashed them to kill EVERYONE, Israelis and Hamas!
1. Well since Gaza was ruled by Egypt for 1948 to 1967, that not 70 years.
2. Enough with the conspiracy theory about Oct 7. It was an intelligent failure.
1. He didn't say Gaza.
2. Egypt gave a 3 day warning. IDF troops warned IDF command. IDF command DID NOT give the music festival organizers a heads up about a possible attack. Israel's intelligence not knowing any of that is just plain nonsense.
A veritable victory parade for Hamas and allies (not just Islamic Jihad, also the communist Peoples' Front for the Liberation of Palestine). As reported by Electronic Intifada, there were tens of thousands of armed guerrillas in that show of force.
They also reported that the reconstruction of much of Gaza may only need a year or so if the construction materials can arrive, much less than claimed by the media originally, thanks to their very skilled population and their communitary spirit.
Excellent resource, one of my favs!
The celebration continues as Israel admits to the silent defeat…!
Isn't it incredible the depravity of these people that after the slaughter they want to snuff out the spirit of human beings.
Imagine the depravity of the people who entered Israel, twisted women's legs into grotesque positions,raped castrated,mutilated,and shot babes in their cribs.
I get it. Wait 16 months, throw shit against the wall and see if it sticks.
According to data by Haaretz, a Bedouin woman at the tail end of her pregnancy was shot in the abdomen while heading to the hospital to give birth, where doctors delivered the baby, but failed to save it.
Admittedly, the claim about 40 beheaded babies has been quietly shelved, because there is precisely zero evidence for it. According to Israel’s own published figures, only two infants died that day.
Nonsense, no evidence for what you're saying. Any mayhem that may have occurred can be solidly laid at the feet of the oppressors for making Gaza into a concentration camp, failing to act on intelligence and the sheer cowardice of their retreat that contributed to the violence on that day.
Did you see the X post from The Cradle sharing how those 110 released prisoners and their families were actually being shot and sniped at? I wouldn't go as far as someone admitting "to the silent defeat," if you catch my drift.
Yes Mr Criminal Minister you’re not the only one who can pull surprise stunts…!
This shows Hamas and most of their tunnels are intact in Northern Gaza under the rubbles in spite of Israeli and western media propaganda of its total destruction…!
Why did those terrorists hold the Thai workers? What did they do to Hamas?
They weren't doing anything to Hamas…! They were doing something to Israel… making its farms going with cheap labor…!
I didn't know Israel was holding Thai workers. You did say "terrorists" so I'm assuming you meant the varsity team of terrorists, Israel, and not some wannabe.
They're you again Tim. Let me break it down for you. The Hamas military raid was so spectacularly successful that after the cowardly retreat of the Israeli army, they were able to take advantage of the gap. When those jubilant fighters came back with unexpected assets, Hamas from day one said they had no need for them and were willing to turn them over safely but Israel refused and kept bombing so it was not safe to free them. Subsequently they became bargaining chips in negotiations. Israel utterly undermined itself by killing its own hostages and tens of thousands of innocents only to achieve release through negotiations. Poor Thai workers were only trying to make a living. I think Thailand thinks about israel differently now. Israel has lost everyone, including its own people.