Report: Israel Offering Hamas Two-Month Pause in Fighting for All Hostages
Israel has come under intense pressure from the families and loved ones of the hostages.
*UPDATE* Hamas rejected the deal!
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Axios reported that Israel proposed Hamas a two-month ceasefire in exchange for all of the hostages plus Palestinian prisoners.
It would be a “phased release.”
No matter what, a ceasefire would allow Hamas to survive, especially once the Palestinian prisoners return.
Don’t forget Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in Gaza. Israel arrested and prosecuted him in 1988. He spent two decades learning about his “enemy.”
But then Israel released Sinwar in a prisoner swap.
What a mistake. Israel has already swapped prisoners for hostages. I wonder if another Sinwar was in those groups or will be in future groups.
Hamas still has over 130 hostages in Gaza. Who knows how many are still alive:
Behind the scenes: Two Israeli officials said the Israeli war cabinet approved ten days ago the parameters of a new proposal for a hostage deal, which are different from past aspects of deals rejected by Hamas and more forward-leaning than previous Israeli proposals.
- Israeli officials said they are waiting for a response from Hamas but stressed they are cautiously optimistic about the ability to make progress in the coming days.
- According to the proposal, the deal would include the release of all remaining hostages who are alive and the return of the bodies of dead hostages in several phases. The first phase would see the release of women, men over the age of 60 years old and hostages who are in critical medical condition, the officials said.
- The next phases would include the release of female soldiers, men under the age of 60 years old who are not soldiers, Israeli male soldiers and the bodies of hostages.
Israel stated it would not release the 6,000 Palestinian prisoners. But the two sides would talk over how many prisoners Hamas would get for every hostage.
Israel has come under intense pressure from the families of the hostages.
Some people stormed into a parliament meeting, demanding action to bring home their loved ones:
“We came to make our voices heard,” Noa Rahamim, whose cousin Sgt. Matan Angrest is being held in Gaza, told The Times of Israel.
“Every day they die there and every day it is announced that another hostage was killed. It simply can’t go on like that and we came to the Knesset [to demand] that they get up and do something. Nobody will silence us.”
“Is it reasonable that 260 trucks of flour are entering Gaza now and my brother is eating nothing?” asked Angrest’s sister Adi. “It doesn’t make any sense that my brother isn’t eating anything when they bring them 260 trucks of flour.”
"אתם לא תשבו כאן ולנו מתים הילדים שלנו!" – משפחות החטופים התפרצו לוועדת הכספים בדרישה להשיב את החטופים: "מה עם פדיון שבויים?" pic.twitter.com/dypLHW8pNC
— ערוץ כנסת (@KnessetT) January 22, 2024
On Sunday night, family members and protesters set up tents outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in Jerusalem:
Shay Binyamin, the daughter of 53-year-old Ron Binyamin, who was kidnapped to Gaza during a bike ride on October 7 near Kibbutz Be’eri, said she is fed up with begging the government for the hostages’ return, and is now demanding a deal.
“All the time we hear about more abductees who were murdered as if we are in Russian roulette. I can’t just wait every day to hear which of the hostages has been executed,” she said.
Jon Polin, the father of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, taken by Hamas, gave a speech in English about the government and prime minister’s failure to protect their citizenry on October 7, when thousands of terrorists from Gaza went on a killing spree across southern Israel, overrunning military bases and communities and killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians. The terrorists also took 253 hostages to Gaza, according to an official government count.
“All of us as citizens have a contract with the country,” said Polin. “In exchange for our service and taxes, we expect the government to keep us safe, and this government and prime minister totally failed us.”
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Mistake.
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Hamas promised to release all the children & parents during the first pause. They didn’t. They also drugged hostages before releasing them so they would look happy during the photo-op.
All the hostages are dead. The only thing left is the total destruction of Hamas.
Bad idea.
Vile and stupid Biden and the largest European powers are already rewarding Hamas for its genocidal murders, rapes, assorted atrocities and hostage-taking, by pressuring Israel to agree to the allegedly magical “two-state” solution — as if the historical record of the manifestly corrupt, misery-laden and belligerent terrorist states that have already been established by Fatah and Hamas in the West Bank and in Gaza, respectively, isn’t sufficient evidence that the Arab Muslim “Palestinians” are never going to give up their devotion to jihadist warfare and their belligerence against Jews and Christians; will never acknowledge Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish homeland whose history pre-dates the supremacist, totalitarian and belligerent ideology of “Submission,” by millennia; and, will never commit themselves to peaceful co-existence with non-Muslims living next door.
This sounds like a lot of people here that get “fed up” and “demand”
Their grief clouds them from the realization that they are asking for the safety of many more to be traded for the return of a few.
these are far left peace-at-any cost-niks who’ve hated Netanyahu, as well as a “jewish” (yes! that’s jewish with a small “j” in their minds – I know; I have one of these as a relative) state of Israel from the word ab ovo; they forget (or ignore) that Israel is ~25% Muslim..
These people are extreme leftists who honestly believe the whole world can live in total peace if we just give in to their demands
Yes, and if the Jews in Israel actually believe that said Muslims won’t side with Hamas to exterminate them should the opportunity arise they’re fools.
Not if all the Pale prisoners are release with a fatal condition, a ticking expiration.
I am very concerned about how badly damaged hostages. Many may actually be worse than dead. They may never recover. That is why I am adamant about the need to take out everyone who has played a role in turning children into terrorists. .These terrorists are just as bad as Nazis, fortunately they are not as competent.
A horrendous mistake. We have no indication that the hostages are alive at all. This guarantees another attack like the one on October 7 and probably worse, And to be honest, why are they allowing 260 trucks of flour in to feed the enemy that is attacking Israel. This is war, and blockades are part of war. I have two funny feelings about this. First, that this is a result of US pressure and a threat to functionally openly change sides [the Democrats are already on HAMAS’ side as far as sympathy and their rank and file lust after an Endlösung der Judenfrage “from the river to the sea”. Second, you can only push a people towards being exterminated so far before they decide that they will not go alone.
Simple research will show that Israel does have a nuclear arsenal and has had one for some time. The estimates range from 90-200 weapons. I lean towards the low end. The other component is means of delivery. They have an awful lot of cruise and MRBM’s. And there is another factor. If you can launch a satellite weighing 350 lbs. into a 250 mile high orbit, and choose the orbit, you functionally have a counter-value ICBM. It cannot take out anything hardened, but it can take out cities, etc. Israel has launched a lot of satellites.
Ponder all the countries that are threatening them, and what they could do to them with both ground burst and EMP if they decide not to go out alone,
Subotai Bahadur
Arabs have been playing with fire for a long time, and I they do not stop Israel has the capabllty of neutralizing those tormenting them. Based on history of the region, I think that Israel will have to do so.
“Some people stormed into a parliament meeting, demanding action to bring home their loved ones:”
I am afraid that what they receive will be a far worse ordeal than what they have already faced. There are things worse than death.
At this point I seriously doubt there are any left alive.
There are a few alive , those are the ones they taunt the Israelites with
Just a few
This is all the pressure from Biden, it’s terrible
2 months?
Are you insane Bibi
Is he really the one making the decision
I thought the Jewish people were strong, stronger than the rest of the world for what they have endured and will.
Bit after reading the thoughts of the kibbutz people, mostly women, who claimed they believed in 2 state solution, that they could have peace with Gaza before the onslaught… I thought, hmm, sounds like Karen, Israel style
Now if it was my child over there in Gaza, I would be Rambo to get them out, I would not sleep, I would do everything in my power, so I understand
But this will not end well…
They can not pick up the pieces in 2 months
Maybe Masad can kill a few “leaders”… so what
Where are the two little red headed boys and their parents…
People demonstrating all over the world for Hamas don’t give a shit
Their numbers are increasing in Western Countries, unfortunately America, or they wouldn’t feel comfortable doing the filth they are
And we have become weak, too afraid of their violent backlash, when we know what must be done
This is a mistake. I wish it were not, but it is. And our government knows it.
Okay, the family members demand action. What if the result were that Hamas would release the captives only in exchange for the death of every single captive’s family members? Or do they think it’s okay for other people to die in this round of let’s make a deal?
Two months to restock munitions, train suicide bombers, and regroup for an offensive.
If that were it, it wouldn’t be a big deal. We are talking about people with a death wish.
The problem is that there wouldn’t be a 2 month cease fire. There would be continuous attacks against Israel and any response by Israel would be held as them breaking their word…no such requirement would be held against Hamas.
This is just sad. I don’t see a good end to this. If the whole world is either on Hamas’s side or is at best trying to straddle the fence then only Hamas achieves a long-term win. I appreciate everything Biden has been able to do but he obviously has limits and way more US support and leadership would be required to allow Israel a definitive win.
Biden & his handlers are snakes, I don’t appreciate anything they do.
Really, Biden?
Dear God
Biden has done nothing substantive to support Israel — don’t be naive. He’s been contemptibly two-faced, the entire time — offering tepid public support, for Israel, while continuing to release funds to Iran and indefensibly pressuring the IDF to “wrap up” military operations, as a craven pandering gesture of Muslims in the U.S.
There is nothing sincere or substantive in Biden’s alleged support for Israel in this war.
“…pandering gesture to Muslims in the U.S.”
Someone posted that Israel may soon have laser defenses against missiles. If true, might they have decided that that plus an impenetrable DMZ around Gaza is sufficient, in order to get hostages back?
There is another aspect to this. If we assume that a large number of the hostages are dead, or a large number have been abused, this changes things.
Right now much of the world, and parts of Isreal, are pushing for a cease-fire, etc. What happens when it turns out the majority of hostages have been murdered, or raped and tortured? How does that change the call for cease-fire? When the first had stories of mass rape and torture get on TV, it will have quite an effect.
OTOH, if this is true, there is a good chance that Hamas will not agree to return hostages. Which means Isreal gets credit for making the offer, and it (once again) gets rejected my Hamas.
They will just blame Israel, and say they killed them through their bombing
Release ALL hostages in one go. But we know they wont because we know most of them are probably dead.
Well well well
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BREAKING: Hamas has rejected an Israeli offer of a two-month ceasefire in exchange for the release of all Israeli hostages
8:26 AM · Jan 23, 2024
I’m
Guessing there are but a handful of hostages left
And they don’t want the world to know that “uncomfortable “ fact
given the length and extent of the israeli offensive would venture that due to their knowledge of where the hostages AREN’T, the idf et al are much closer to knowing where the hostages ARE (or may in fact already know)–considering the logistics in detaining the hostages (particularly if there are many left alive / mobile) hamas is rather limited in where they could be detained / maintained / protected (as the ultimate collatteral)–there are actually several upsides to netanyu’s strategy–a partly political move but also likely a tactical one