Hamas said on Tuesday that a deal had been reached to secure the release of over 600 Palestinians from Israeli jails that Israel had delayed.
Under the ceasefire deal, Israel was supposed to release the Palestinians on Saturday after Hamas freed six Israeli hostages, but Israel refused to over Hamas’s handover ceremonies, which it said were “humiliating.”
Hamas said a solution had been reached that would involve the group releasing the bodies of four Israeli hostages and Israel freeing the Palestinians simultaneously. “They will be released simultaneously with the bodies of the Israeli prisoners agreed to be handed over during the first phase, in addition to the corresponding Palestinian women and children,” Hamas said.
The agreement was reached in Cairo, where Hamas had sent a delegation led by one of its officials, Khalil Al-Hayya, for negotiations. Hamas also said that a new set of Palestinian prisoners would be released, as well as the more than 600 that were supposed to be freed on Saturday.
The Israeli news site Ynet reported that the Israeli bodies would be handed over by Hamas to Egyptian authorities in private, with no public ceremony.
The exchange will complete all of the releases that were set to happen under the first phase of the hostage and ceasefire deal, which is due to expire on Saturday. So far, no agreement has been reached on the second phase as Israel has delayed the negotiations.
Israeli officials have said they’re looking for an extension of the first phase, an idea backed by the US. The implication of extending the first phase would be that Israel would likely be looking to secure the release of more hostages without having to withdraw fully from Gaza since a withdrawal is a condition of the second phase.
According to Al Arabiya, if a deal is not reached on the second phase by Friday, Israeli officials expect to either continue with the first phase ceasefire or restart the genocidal war. Bloomberg reported that Israel is trying to extend the first phase but is also amassing troops to be prepared to resume the slaughter.
Throughout the ceasefire, Israel has continuously violated the agreement by blocking certain types of aid from entering Gaza and continuing to kill Palestinians. Since the truce went into effect on January 19, Israel has killed more than 100 Palestinians in Gaza.
The US is giving Israel additional time to extend the first phase to get more hostages released. Hamas is not about to give up the strongest leverage it has. Since the Israelis are not to be trusted Hamas conditioned the next release of bodies to be handed over to Egypt in order to guarantee Israel upholds it release of Palestinian prisoners.
Netanyahu is trying his best not to get to phase two because it includes total withdrawal from Gaza. The further both sides get into the ceasefire agreement the more clear it becomes that Israel failed in its goals to eradicate Hamas, release the Israeli captives by force and have a "day after" plan for Gaza.
Its nothing I normally do, but I was watching Piers Morgan and he had 6 guests. They were all over the place on the ceasefire negotiations from Christian Zionists to bleeding heart liberals. The only thing they had in common was the universal condemnation of Hamas. This hatred of what Hamas represents is so ingrained in the western psyche. If Islam is the underlying agenda for Hamas' motivations and actions it behooves us not to understand this faith. Given the lopsided balance of power and Israeli brutality I don't think there are many who would have done better in negotiating with these thieves, liars and murderers than the Palestinian resistance.
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Thank you for this. A lot of common sense. But all so true.
My mother educated my friend at me about propaganda when we were 10. She was an old fashioned sales lady where they went door to door or into stores to demonstrate their ware. She told me that there all kinds of tricks but she refused items where she had to outright lie.
Anyway long story short we were a bit chubby and yogurt was introduced into a sleepy town in Austria as being not just healthy but also slimming for a good figure. Well, all we 10 year olds heard was 'slim figure'. So we bought as much as we could on earned money and ate it on top of our normal meals. So we gained weight instead of losing it. That's when my mother set us down explaining all the ins and outs of propaganda at that time. It penetrated into my DNA. Later on when I was a teen living in Vienna she would talk to the radio when the commercials came on saying something like "Ah they are trying to bamboozle us again".
My mother used to talk to any human being, animals, plants and even objects. Birds and cats loved her, plants thrived under her and she kept objects longer than others, they did not wear out as much.
She told me that there all kinds of tricks but she refused items where she had to outright lie.
That's the basic morality lost in today's modern world. We work to reeducate and expose the misleading narratives.
Thank you. Pretty basic, but so true. My observations
1. In following Arabic media outlets like aljazeera I find them more "honest" than western media.
2. Anyone or anything in power will utilize these tools, so its not that all of it is bad. It depends on the underlying intention. I trust Chomsky to be a careful scholar so I may defer to his resort to authority for example.
3. Everything said applies to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the psy-ops being used against Americans.
It is basic, it is validating, if you already get it. But many many many people are zombified by propaganda. The smearing of alternative voices, for example, through ad hominem, works. There are people to whom I have posted links and they won’t read them, self censoring their own knowledge and education because legacy media labeled the source as “fringe”‘conspiratorial” “an enemy propaganda” and so on.
And the brainwashing on Hamas is complete and absolute.
Agreed.
I have observed Hamas for decades and western reactions. It's similar to how the oligarchy in the US and the Zionists teamed up after 9/11 in their war on Islam. They lied about it so much that after a couple of decades, not only did it have diminishing returns but Islam became the fastest grwoing religion in the west. Its ironic, for example, one if the tropes was about the oppression of women. In the west, the largest number of those converting are women.
The point is they couldn't just objectively critique Islam from a western lens, they had to lie about Islam. Americans, like most people, don't like to be lied to. Many converted after seeing the faith and resilience of the Palestinians in Gaza.
Same with demonizing Hamas. Even now young American Jews see Hamas in. amore objective way than their parents' generation.
Israel had a right to suspend releasing the Palestinians after they showed a giant poster, mocking Netanyahu, when they released 6 hostages. Insulting Netanyahu is a war crime.
Hamas should release one body for each 100 prisoners at a time until all 600 are actually released…!
Depraved:
Trump shares AI video of his vision for Gaza — featuring giant gold statue and him lounging poolside with Netanyahu
https://nypost.com/2025/02/26/world-news/trump-shares-ai-video-of-his-vision-for-gaza/
Wow! did he really share this on True Social? I am not in it so I would not know. But if he did MAGA will excuse it as a genius tool of trolling the left on purpose to make his deals.
I haven’t read the comments on the NY Post, but the site is rabidly pro Israel. (Murdoch family)
I don’t read truth social, so I couldn’t tell you the response there.
That’s disgusting…!
Great psy-ops. It's so perfectly "western," debauched with belly dancers, orientalism. They even stole our hummus that Musk is dipping.
Keep their filthy hands off the falafels and tahini, lol.