Hamas said on Thursday that it plans to release three Israeli hostages on Saturday as agreed under the ceasefire deal, and Israel appears to have backed down on its demands for more captives to be freed.
The Times of Israel reported that Israel is preparing to receive three hostages on Saturday despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu backing President Trump’s threat that the genocidal war would be restarted if all hostages weren’t released.
Earlier this week, Hamas said it was postponing the hostage release, citing Israeli ceasefire violations, complaints that Israeli officials acknowledged were legitimate.
Hamas’s main gripe appeared to be over Israel, blocking tents, mobile homes, and construction equipment from entering Gaza. According to Middle East Eye, dozens of bulldozers and caravans entered the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing and are expected to be allowed into Gaza.
Egyptian officials told Reuters that Israel would let heavy construction vehicles enter Gaza in exchange for the hostage release happening as scheduled, but Israeli officials denied the report. A spokesman for Netanyahu said that “there is no entry of mobile homes or heavy equipment into Gaza, and there is no coordination for it.”
The Netanyahu spokesman also acknowledged that Israel still hasn’t begun negotiations on the second phase of the ceasefire deal. The lack of talks on the second phase is another violation of the agreement, as they were supposed to start on the 16th day of the ceasefire, which began on January 19.
The ceasefire in Gaza is still extremely fragile, as Israel bombed Gaza on Thursday after claiming a rocket was fired inside the strip. But a source from Gaza’s police force said the rocket was an unexploded Israeli ordnance that detonated while being moved, according to The Times of Israel.
Palestinian media reported that a 14-year-old boy was killed by the detonated ordnance. Israel claimed it struck the source of the rocket launch in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, a 15-year-old was killed by an Israeli airstrike to the east of the Nuseirat refugee camp, which is also in central Gaza.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Tuesday that Israeli forces have killed at least 92 Palestinians in Gaza since the ceasefire went into effect on January 19.
Not only are the Israelis petty sore losers, violating the ceasefire at every turn, they have shown their intent from day one has been to displace the Palestinians. What they couldn't achieve on the battlefield, they're not to get in negotiations.
Oct 6 gave them an excuse.
Zionism doesn't need an excuse. It allows the master race to do what it wants. Unfortunately they met their better.
October 6?
Somehow you have forgot who started this round of fighting.
This round? Why did the Zionists displace the indigenous population?
Which means Israel can violate the cease fire "at every turn"? Or the fact that they have lessened their rules of engagement to the point that they're more terroristic than the "designated" terrorists? Somehow, you keep forgetting that along with any history before Oct. 7th.
"they're not to get in negotiations" Are you saying that the Palestinians will not give up all the Israelis they have kidnapped?
They're not going to get the ethnic cleansing they've always wanted.
This site itself is soooo careful to protect the sensibilities of genocides
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Israel Backing Down is always a sign of triumph for Hamas…!
No, it seems that Hamas backed down after threatening to hold back on hostage release once Israeli tank units started to clean their gun barrels.
Those violating the ceasefire making those who abided by the ceasefire back down makes you proud. Shocking. It'd be nice if the other side had some ant-tank weapons to wipe away your smugness. But then the IDF would wet itself it had to go against a peer military.
What are RPG's if not antitank weapons?
I should have said "state of the art" like the weapons Israel receives from the US.
I know it must be hard for you to see Jews victorious. As Golda Meir said:
“The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.”
Too bad world
Well, at least you left out the definite article instead of pretending the IDF represents "the" Jews.
I’m wondering why people unconnected to Judaism feel that they can speak on behalf of Jews. The vast majority of Jews support the IDF. In Israel, although there is great polarization with respect to the government, the IDF, which is the people’s defence force, has overwhelming support. Jews in the Diaspora, with few exceptions, feel the same way
Many Jews don’t practice Judaism. They’re just from an ethnic group historically associated with Judaism.
And Zionism tends to use Jews as human shields to defend its foul philosophy.
You may consider it “foul” but as you know by far the majority of Jews consider themselves to be Zionists. Also, many non-practicing Jews are Zionists. That’s because Judaism is not only a religion but also an ethnicity.
It’s somewhat difficult to determine what percentage of Jews consider themselves to be Zionists. But it’s worth noticing that the majority of Jews worldwide decline to actually live in Israel even though they are guaranteed citizenship there under “right of return.”
The majority of Jews worldwide do seem to “support Israel” to one degree or another, but it’s not clear that all of them do so on Zionist philosophical grounds.
And there was a time when the Ku Klux Klan enjoyed a high level of support from “white” Americans. That doesn’t mean the Ku Klux Klan was right or good, it just means that it was able to falsely, but apparently persuasively, position itself as a protector of that particular ethnic set.
It’s somewhat difficult to determine what percentage of Jews consider themselves to be Zionists. But it’s worth noticing that the majority of Jews worldwide decline to actually live in Israel even though they are guaranteed citizenship there under “right of return.”
The majority of Jews worldwide do seem to “support Israel” to one degree or another, but it’s not clear that all of them do so on Zionist philosophical grounds.
And there was a time when the Ku Klux Klan enjoyed a high level of support from “white” Americans. That doesn’t mean the Ku Klux Klan was right or good, it just means that it was able to falsely, but apparently persuasively, position itself as a protector of that particular ethnic set.
And you think I'm against Israel's barbarism because I hate Jews? If Hamas was backed by a superpower and was butchering Jews like Israel is butchering Palestinians, I'd be bitching about that just as loudly. And I'd be calling them terrorists just like I call the Israeli's butchering Palestinians terrorists. Now, if the Jews in Israel were being butchered like the Palestinians in Gaza, what would you call that? I'll answer for you: A HOLOCAUST.
I don’t know if you hate Jews but your selective outrage for Israel makes me suspicious. I’ve never seen a critical word from you about Hamas which has expressed its genocidal intentions very clearly.
If you've never seen a critical word about Hamas from me, you've never bothered reading my comments before.
The whole impetus for the October 7 attacks was that Hamas was desperate to hold on to power over Palestinians after refusing to hold elections since 2006.
As of September of 2023, Hamas was violently suppressing street protests against its misrule and executing its Palestinian political opponents as "Israeli spies," but that was failing.
So they did a Hail Mary — bring Israel in as "worse cop" so that they could look like they were actually fighting for regular Palestinians. So far, that's worked.
I've said all of this before in comments.
"Selective outrage"?
One side is bombing the living shit out of the other side and killing any innocents in the way. How in the fuck is me bitching about that selective outrage? If Hamas was doing what Israel is doing, I would have "selective outrage" towards them. And both sides want the other side gone. But only one side is acting on it. God, you make me sick.
Things are gradually calming down there. Gee, we never saw that with Biden in charge. Go figure.
I bet you like magic tricks.
The barbarism of the Zionists still shocks me on occasion
Zionism is a just national liberation movement. The Oct 6 genocidal massacre, with its point blank shooting and burning of children, its barbaric rape gangs and Hezzie missile attacks received a just and measured response.
"with its point blank shooting and burning of children, its"-
And the beheaded babies – MY GOD, THE 40 BEHEADED BABIES!
And you're just an unpaid Hasbara troll. Try getting the date right and they might put you on the payroll.
Apparently, for the ZioNazi state, it's even more intensely pleasurable killing unarmed children having pledged to stop. One sees the Jewish Himmler eyes a-gleaming rubbing his hands and drooling with relish.
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