Hamas Wants To Extend Hudna (Ceasefire) Another Four Days

Hamas is in the driver’s seat. Israel must stop dancing to their bloody tune. The majority of the Hamas captives released are seniors. Hamas is keeping the high value hostages and will for years to come. Hamas wants to extend the hudna  (in Islam, a temporary retreat to regroup and rearm)  in order rearm, move hostages (they still have close to 200 held captive), and extricate Hamas leaders.

Israel  must take back control of events. In a stroke, it  yielded control of the war to Gaza’s Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar.

Listen to the crowds of Gazans scream and jeer at the hostages being released. Tormenting them even in their last moments as hostages. pic.twitter.com/tI7rl9BzhK

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) November 28, 2023

For the record, I oppose the ceasefire. I oppose rewarding hostage taking, negotiating with terrorists, and furthering postponing the eradication of Hamas. Terrible.

The hostages are thus crucial to the survival of Hamas. As Col. (res.) Shai Shabtai wrote for Bar-Ilan University’s BESA Centre: “Its continued hold on the hostages has one object: to use endless negotiation in order to undermine the dismantling of its political and military power.”

The infernal choice behind the hostage deal:

It is a sacred duty to redeem the hostages. But what if a deal prevents Israel from carrying out its no-less sacred duty to ensure that Hamas can never again subject Israelis to such a genocidal onslaught or worse?

And the terms of the deal are atrocious. At the very moment the IDF is poised to push into the south of Gaza, it has undertaken to stop all aerial surveillance there for four days and for six hours each day in the north.

Hamas eyes Gaza truce extension for more hostage releases

By: AFP, November 29, 2023:

Hamas is willing to extend a truce for four days and release more Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, a source close to the militant group said Wednesday, as mediators sought a lasting halt to the conflict.

A current truce is scheduled to expire early Thursday after a six-day pause in the conflict, sparked by deadly Hamas attacks that prompted a devastating Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip.

With 60 Israeli hostages and 180 Palestinian prisoners already released and more set to walk free on Wednesday under the agreement, Qatari mediators said they were working for a “sustainable” ceasefire.

Hamas on Wednesday “informed the mediators that it is willing to extend the truce for four days,” a source close to the militant group told AFP on condition of anonymity.

Under that arrangement, “the movement would be able to release Israeli prisoners that it, other resistance movements and other parties hold during this period, according to the terms of the existing truce,” the source added.

Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesman Majed Al Ansari told a Doha news conference on Tuesday that negotiators were seeking “a sustainable truce that will lead to further negotiations and eventually to an end… to this war.”

A source with knowledge of the talks added in comments to AFP on Wednesday that discussions were “focused on building on the progress of the extended humanitarian pause agreement and to initiate further discussions about the next phase of a potential deal.”

Hostages, prisoners released

After a 48-hour extension of an initial four-day truce, a new group of 12 hostages was freed from Gaza on Tuesday, with 30 Palestinians released by Israel.

An AFP journalist saw masked and armed fighters from the militant groups Hamas and the Islamic Jihad hand over hostages to Red Cross officials in Rafah, near the border with Egypt.

The Israeli hostages freed were all women, including 17-year-old Mia Leimberg, who returned to Israel with her mother and aunt.

The three were all abducted from kibbutz Nir Yitzhak, and the teenager was seen after her release holding her dog Bella.

The grandmother of 12-year-old Eitan Yahalomi, who was released on Monday, said the boy had been held in solitary confinement for 16 days.

“The days that he was alone were horrible,” Esther Yaeli told Israeli news website Walla. “Now Eitan appears very withdrawn.”

Hamas has also released a Russian-Israeli, 20 Thais and one Filipino outside the scope of the agreement.

Thailand’s foreign ministry said 17 of the released Thai hostages would arrive back in the kingdom on Thursday. It said about 13 Thais remained among the hostages held in Gaza.

Among the Palestinian prisoners freed in Tuesday’s exchange was 14-year-old Ahmad Salaima who returned to his home in east Jerusalem to cheers and hugs from relatives.

When Ahmed was in prison, we couldn’t visit him, even though he’s the youngest Palestinian prisoner,” his father Nayef said.

Israel’s government has received a list of the new hostages to be freed Wednesday, Israeli media reported. There was no official confirmation.

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MAHMOOT

5 months ago

Here in Australia we have indoctrinated dumb white school children marching with their teachers in the tens of thousands all wearing arab scarfs around their necks and arab head dress yelling down with Israel and we support Hamas. I truly wish they could all be deported to a islamic third world shit hole and all be raped and abused their Islamic masters who they worship so willingly

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Susan vella

5 months ago

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These children could be halfers? Ya know muslims love having white blue eyed Caucasians offspring fighting their fight. European muslims all of them. Criminal to use children to fight their propaganda. Bc that’s what it is. BS.

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ed

5 months ago

Extensions are something for Shanaynay to put in her hair. Israel needs to re-start bombing the savages !!

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Stephen Honig

5 months ago

Israel has no choice because Biden is threatening them.

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ORRN31

5 months ago

No ceasefire. And whatever the Obiden administration advises, do the opposite.

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Robert L. Kahlcke

5 months ago

Fornicate Hamas, they are no different than RABID ANIMALS and you know what is done with RABID ANIMALS.

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GWC

5 months ago

The ceasefire was a mistake. Every time they ask for one the ordnance is increased ti a higher crescendo.

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