13 Israeli, 12 Thai Hamas Hostages Have Been Released
The U.S. and UK confirmed none of their citizens were included in this group.
The first 13 Israeli Hamas hostages are safe in Egypt after 49 days in Gaza with the terrorist group.
The hostages crossed into Egypt with the Red Cross.
Egypt also managed to negotiate the release of 12 Thai hostages.
The deal includes releasing Palestinian prisoners.
The terrorists also released Hanna Katzir, who they claimed died in captivity.
Live update: Hanna Katzir, who PIJ claimed died in captivity, among 13 Israelis released https://t.co/o8AQRJMPcW . Click to read ⬇️
— TOI ALERTS (@TOIAlerts) November 24, 2023
BREAKING: 13 hostages are back in Israel pic.twitter.com/NiXx3mVPTR
— Trey Yingst (@TreyYingst) November 24, 2023
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The list of released Israeli hostages. Only 4 children have been released. pic.twitter.com/tECfzXxBUW
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) November 24, 2023
The first thirteen Israeli hostages have been released by Hamas from Gaza under a four-day cease-fire deal. NEWSMAX Jerusalem correspondent Daniel Cohen has more.@DanielCohenTV pic.twitter.com/FD7mQrni7I
— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) November 24, 2023
🔴FIRST LOOK: Video said to be from Gaza showing Red Cross ambulances carrying the Israeli hostages pic.twitter.com/kMe7KbkoDg
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) November 24, 2023
Ahead of release of hostages, a reminder to press:
➡️ The Israeli hostages being released from Gaza, are children & women. Innocent people snatched from their homes.
➡️ Palestinians being released are terrorists and violent offenders.
There is no parity here!
— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) November 24, 2023
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This deal guarantees that in all future attacks on Israel the terrorists will kidnap civilians to trade for their captured killers.
All the more necessary now to continue operations until all threats in the Gaza cesspool are eliminated.
That is certainly correct. But, I suspect when Israel finally terminates its ground campaign on Gaza, one of the conditions of their withdrawal will be a new, expansive DMZ along the Gaza/Israel border. It would have to be something that would provide a significant impediment to anything like October 7th ever happening again. I would expect a significant buffer zone, probably in excess of 1K or more meters….and very likely heavily MINED, just as the DMZ between South Korea and DPRK is mined. Gaza is about to get smaller. 1K meters doesn’t sound like much until you realize that we’re talking about a border that is 40-miles or so long and it’s border with Israel a whole lot more dangerous…explosive.
DMZ won’t stop rockets.
Big thermobaric bombs will fix that problem, that is all Pales understand.
Just noting this in passing. The area of all of Gaza is [according to reference sources] just 141 square miles. I grew up in Denver, Colorado for part of my youth. The area of the City and County of Denver itself [they are combined and it does not include ANY suburbs] is 153.4 square miles. When I was a kid, it was considered that one Russian nuke would take out the City and County. There were several more targeted back in those days, because of all the military bases and defense industries in the metro area, but one would have taken out Denver itself.
It should be noted that Israel is considered to have an . . . interesting nuclear arsenal. If HAMAS breaks their word, which can be taken as a given, and if Israel’s former allies continue turning on Israel, it would reduce at least one problem for them if Israel used one of that arsenal. I fear that the world is going to learn a lesson they should have already known. “Do not back a nuclear power into a life and death corner, because there will be consequences.”.
YMMV
Subotai Bahadur
Replying to the general’s on-point above.
I get the most interesting reactions when I mention Isreali nukes to the “Israel doing genocide” people. If Israel were doing all the genocide it could right now, Gaza would be a collection of radioactive, glassed crater.
The Screaming Meemies don’t want to recognize that Israel is in fact demonstrating restraint. Nor that Israeli restraint or not is independent of whether Hamas, or their claimed people have some justification for their position or actions. Least of all do the Meemies want to recognize that this conflict is existential for both the parties actually getting killed by parts as it goes on. (Their non-kinetic lives are also much reduced when things are “quiet.”.)
“It’s hard to make peace with people set on wiping you off the planet.”
To stop short of destruction, they each need a way out that looks like survival. Various “peace” deals ultimately fail because they stop looking like survival for one party or the other. The combatants could start by noticing that their backers and brokers aren’t dying over it.
They couldn’t even make a 50/50 deal, let alone a deal in their favor, in a war they are winning, yet you think they some how have the balls to drop a bomb?
Didn’t Pale’s get Gaza back after losing it in 1967 in exchange for peace? And wasn’t 1970 that Jordan had to kick Pale ass?
Gaza was seized by Egypt in the 1947 War for Independence, and the cease-fire line was drawn around what became known as “the Gaza strip.”
Israel took Gaza back during the Six Day War (1967), as well as taking all of the Sinai from Egypt. Egypt (eventually) got the Sinai back through negotiations (after the Yom Kippur War (1967). Rather than get Gaza back, it was made a place for the Palestinians, under Israeli control, which Israel surrendered in 2005, establishing self-rule for the Palestinians in Gaza. It seems that they have not chosen their leadership well.
It’s been their strategy from the beginning. They kidnapped Gilad Shalit in 2006 specifically to trade for prisoners.
I just wish the press would stop referring to it as a prisoner exchange or a hostage exchange. It’s neither. It’s a ransom.
Yes, this will guarantee more hostage-taking in the future
Hope this doesn’t stop the process of jihadi sand vermin elimination, because zero Hamas terrorists seems to be the right number.
There probably will not be much more hostage taking until more Hamas fighters become available.
When will they be available? As soon as they grow up.
Well, where do they come from? From Palestinian mothers of course. Even now, Palestinian women are seeking pregnancies to resupply the Hamas pipeline.
In the interim, Israel is doing their part to help Hamas fighters acheive their goal of 70 virgins. As they go on to paradise they have to continually be replaced.
Palestinians = Hamas. Hamas = Palestinians. It’s a never ending cycle—sorta like summer and winter.
Mind virus. Vaccine is available, but being rejected.
>>There probably will not be much more hostage taking until more Hamas fighters become available.<<
You forget. Israel is giving back 150 convicted terrorists for the few that Israel gets in return. So if they are stupid enough to keep that up they'll provide all the reinforcements that Hamas needs to continue its program of terrorism without a problem.
Israel probably put trackers on ’em. Next time they won’t be take prisoner.
FWIW, it appears that whatever role Egypt played in the release of the Thai hostages, it was likely more logistical than anything else. Instead, ‘Thai Muslim politicians’ have been negotiating with Iran for almost a month now. This was reported by Reuters on November 3rd and reiterated through other reporting the last day or two. It’s unclear what, if anything, was offered by these ‘Thai Muslim politicians’ as an enticement for the release of the Thai hostages.
This is just kicking the coffin down the road. The cost now versus the cost later. Brutally destroying Hamas now at the expense of the present hostages should yield better dividends later. Imagine if Carter had told Iran to give up the embassy hostages in 24 hours or Iran is literally bombed back before the stone age… as a hint of things to come… destroy one of their key military bases as proof positive of intent.
In theory, could Biden have done the same thing to Iran now, given their presumed control over their proxy Hamas?
The civilian side of me, a man with a family whom I love dearly, is happy to see these hostages go free to be reunited with their families.
However, the deeply ingrained military side of me can’t help but see this cease-fire, hostages for criminals swap, and the hundreds of U.N. trucks crossing the border into Gaza with “humanitarian aid”, as a grave mistake. When an Army on the offensive gets stalled and loses the initiative, bad things will happen.
It’s a tough call, and a terrible situation with no easy path or decision.
Biden, of course, is taking credit but it should be noted he never engaged in negotiations to have American hostages released. When asked, he said he “hopes” that some will be released. I want every single hostage released but Biden does have a responsibility to his citizens.
Hasn’t Hamas themselves declared they are holding some number of Americans among the taken? Looks like none of those released.
Must be waiting for a better offer. Now, what would make them think they could get a better offer for US prisoners?