Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s national security advisor, Tzachi Hanegbi, told family members of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza that he doesn’t think there will be a comprehensive deal to free all of their relatives.
Hanegbi said that the initial “humanitarian” part of a deal that’s been discussed could be reached within a few months, which could result in the release of some of the hostages. But he added that the Netanyahu government was not willing to end its military operations in Gaza to free all the hostages. Hamas’s main demand to release all the hostages has been a permanent ceasefire and Israeli withdrawal.
“The first stage of the deal, the humanitarian phase, we will be able to achieve within a few short months. It won’t take many months and not years,” Hanegbi said, according to a report from Israel’s Channel 12. “I don’t believe that this government will succeed in completing the entire deal. This government will not take a decision on stopping the war for the return of all the hostages. We have to keep fighting in order that there won’t be another October 7 in October 2027.”
Hanegbi said that there was no plan B if the hostages were not released within a few months. “We will continue to fight in Gaza and in the north, and only then will we reassess,” he said.
According to Haaretz, a participant in the meeting reportedly asked, “So, we’re lost?” and Hanegbi replied in the affirmative.
Netanyahu has made clear that the hostages were not his priority and that even if all of them were freed, he would continue the genocidal campaign in Gaza to “eradicate” Hamas, a goal the US does not think is realistic. Haaretz reported back in March that Israel believes only 60 to 70 of the 134 remaining hostages in Gaza were alive, and a source said they feared the number could be even lower.
I guess the people are happy to sacrifice family in order to fulfill genocide and ethnic cleansing goals? If true, there is some very deep psychological illness happening en masse.
The hostage families protest almost every day and it seems they don't have a lot of public followers…!
it’s been long suggested that the Likud wants the POWs dead. Hannibal Directive.
A video is circulating of a POW ( IDF Officer ) explicitly stating this. An excerpt of his video statement :
“….My name is Alexander Trufanov. As I promised you, I want to convey some messages. First, I want to say that my situation is good, I am healthy, and this despite that the Israeli military and air force tried to kill me numerous times. Thank God that today I can speak to you, and thanks to Saraya Al-Quds who took care of me, protected me, and preserved my life.
“Now I want to tell you the truth: the Netanyahu government and the security leadership are lying to you and telling you that they want to bring us back through military pressure, but in fact, they are seeking to kill us. They do not want to pay the price of bringing us back alive; they want to bring back corpses. It is much cheaper and more cost-effective for them to return corpses. This is why I am appealing to you, the protesters, to demonstrate, make noise, and apply pressure. ….”
It’s a much better narrative for Zionist leaders to say, “look what hamas did, they killed all the hostages”. As it is, they tried to blame hamas for the deaths at the tent city that they bombed.
First we heard that the IDF was "investigating" that incident. Then one IDF representative comes out on major media and says flat out that the fires that consumed men, women and babies (several decapitated) were not caused by the bombing alone. Any fool can calculate that were the IDF to not choose to bomb people living in tents there would not have been any fire. No bombs = No fires.
Of course.
As soon as the indiscriminate bombings of civilian structures, hospitals, schools, camps, housing, the families of the hostages had to know, their Ghoul Leaders were killing everything. What did these families think, that there was a magical shield protecting their children, but not the Palestinians?
I saw one grievance of a returned hostage about not having enough to eat….ponder on that one. I wonder why.
We all wonder why. Hmmm. One returned hostage said that perhaps 50 hostages were killed by the Israeli bombing. That story came out months ago. Estimates, by Israel, are that there may be less than 50 still alive. What was the original figure, 240? But it is Hamas' fault that Israeli flown, American made, F-16s dropped bombs on everything, including the tent city in Rafah.
Yes, I know. I was being rhetorical.
Some 100+ Israeli prisoners were exchanged early on. These were civilians. Virtually all of the remaining ~100 prisoners are IDF or Settler paramilitaries; POWs is better description.
of these ~100 POWs roughly 50 have been killed by the IDF.
They are heavily censoring:
Max Blumenthal ( @MaxBlumenthal
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Israeli state security censored a story about the intimidation campaign Israeli intelligence ran against the ICC prosecutor
It has also heavily redacted a report on the detention w/o charges of Palestinian activist
Bassem Tamimi
All in the Middle East's "only democracy"
• Gur Megiddo IT'an ala @GurMegiddo
May 28
I wrote a column about how the Israeli Military Censorship censored a 2022 TheMarker story about the extortion attempt of the prosecutor in The Hague, as exposed this morning by The Guardian.
It was supposed to be published tomorrow, but it got censored too
Israel (and I include the citizens of Israel, 90% of which are all in on the war, with 68% all in on the killing (genocide) of all Palestinians) is evil personified. It is apparent that the executives at major media outlets are frightened of being called an "antisemitic", although the ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Palestinians is the mother of all antisemitic actions. Palestinians are semitic, more so, in my view, than the Ashkenazi of European extraction. In an article o Scheerpost, Ralph Nader opines on this: https://scheerpost.com/2024/05/27/ralph-nader-joe-bidens-deceptive-declaration-zig-deadly-deed-zags/
“I don’t believe that this government will succeed in completing the entire deal. This government will not take a decision on stopping the war for the return of all the hostages. We have to keep fighting in order that there won’t be another October 7 in October 2027.”
Quite the forward thinker (/s). You're ensuring there will be another October 7 in 2027. Before and beyond also. Hell, I would even like to kick you in the nuts (I wanted to say slit his throat but…) and I'm nowhere near you.
“….his throat but…” Garland Nixon has an instant classic signature “BUUTTT” in all his Youtube clips that is hilarious.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! There was never a thought about the hostages in the minds of Netanyahu, Gallant, and Ben-Gvr. Hostages were shelled by IDF tanks on 7Oct. Hostages were blasted by Israeli pilots in American made Apache helicopters. On 8Oct, Israel could have re-sealed the borders, then contacted Hamas for the exchange of the hostages for the thousands of "detainees" in Israeli prisons. Hamas was the excuse (Israel knew of the plans to attack one year in advance, with the IDF standing down in other areas on 7Oct). All common knowledge to us on alternative media, but not major media.
If these hostages ever get released some of the Israeli government officials might need some extra security. I'm surprised some family members haven't gone postal on their asses.
Supposedly there are some protests
I’m surprised Israeli families with children haven’t all exited Israel.
Around 15% of the Jewish Israeli citizenry has voted with their feet since 2.Oct.
even Bibi’s own son refuses to stay in Israel. He is living the good life in Miami.
You do have to wonder if Israel would have responded differently if it was Netanyahu's son who was one of the hostages.
He would scarify the son…!