Hamas Walks Away From Hostages-for-Ceasefire Talks, Threatens Attacks During Ramadan
May “Ramadan be a month of … jihad, and victories,’ Senior Hamas operative Abu Obaida vows.
Terrorist group Hamas walked away from the hostages-for-ceasefire talks being held in Cairo, dashing U.S. and Western hopes of a ceasefire before the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan which begins on Sunday.
“A Hamas delegation has left talks in Cairo without a deal for a ceasefire in Gaza,” the BBC reported Friday. “It had been hoped that a 40-day truce could be in place for the start of the Islamic month of Ramadan next week.”
Instead of freeing captive Israeli women, elderly and children in exchange for a six-week truce during Ramadan, as reportedly offered by Israel, Hamas has threatened to intensify the campaign of terror during the Muslim month of fasting.
This year’s Ramadan will a ‘month of Jihad,’ spokesperson for Hamas terrorist fighting force al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Obaida, declared Friday. “May the approaching month of Ramadan be a month of obedience, jihad, and victories,” the senior Hamas terrorist said in a speech address to Muslims across the world.
“As Muslims worldwide prepare to welcome Ramadan, we have offered a sacrifice to Allah – a cascade of pure blood and pure souls. We welcome it with the peak of Islamic zeal, jihad, steadfastness, and combat during a time when men are honored [for their actions during the Holy month],” the Hamas operative said.
IDF hits Hamas terrorist fighting force, Gaza rocket launch sites
Deeply entrenched within Gaza’s civilians population, Hamas continued to fire rockets into Israel. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) hit Hamas’s terrorist fighting force and launch sites. “IDF troops are killing terrorists in the area of Hamad and continue conducting targeted raids and eliminations of threats in northern and central Gaza; several military posts were struck in central Gaza overnight, from which launches were carried out toward Sderot,” the military disclosed in statement on Saturday.
The IDF says troops killed dozens of gunmen during operations across the Gaza Strip over the past day, as the Air Force struck targets in central Gaza, from which rockets were fired at Sderot.
In southern Gaza's Khan Younis, the IDF says the Bislamach Brigade killed more than 20… pic.twitter.com/g00YUnwizV
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) March 9, 2024
Pentagon rejects Palestinian claims that U.S. airdrop killed civilians
Hamas appears to have fabricated another atrocity, this times blaming the U.S. of killing five civilians and hurting several others when airdropped food packages landed on Gazan residents.
The news of dead Gazans, replete with eyewitness reports and hospital staff quotes, was picked up by several mainstream media outlets.
“Five people have been killed and 10 injured in Gaza when they were hit by a pallet of aid parachuted into the territory as part of a humanitarian airdrop,” the UN newspaper Guardian reported Friday. “The casualties were taken to Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital, the emergency room’s head nurse, Mohammed al-Sheikh, said.”
Pentagon rejected the Palestinian claim, confirming that “all of our aid bundles landed safely on the ground.” The NBC News reports:
The Pentagon denied that U.S. airdrops of aid were responsible for any civilian casualties in Gaza after the enclave’s civil defense said the five people were killed today by “aircraft incorrectly dropping aid.”
At a Department of Defense press briefing this afternoon, Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said that reports of U.S. airdrops resulting in civilian casualties on the ground are false “as we’ve confirmed that all of our aid bundles landed safely on the ground.”
“All aid packages landed safely – any report of casualties is false”
The Pentagon responding to Palestinian reports that civilians were killed by the aid airdropped into Gaza.
SHOCKER to learn that HAMAS LIED about casualties.
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) March 8, 2024
UNRWA chief says Hamas-linked agency at ‘risk of death’ over funding cuts
The head of terrorist-linked United Nations’ Palestinian aid agency, UNRWA, has claimed that his organization is at ‘risk of death’ following funding cuts by the U.S. and several Western donors after fresh evidence of collusion between its staffers and Hamas recently came to light.
More than 450 UNRWA employees are members of Hamas or other Gaza-based terrorist groups and many of them took part in raping, killing and hostage-taking of Israelis on October 7, evidence released by the Israeli security services shows.
The Times of Israel reported:
The United Nations Palestinian refugee agency is at “risk of death” after a string of donors suspended their funding over Israeli allegations some staff took part in the October 7 attacks by Hamas in southern Israel, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini says.
“The agency is at risk of death, it is risking dismantlement,” Lazzarini tells Swiss broadcaster RTS in an interview aired today.
“What is at stake is the fate of the Palestinians today in Gaza in the short term who are going through an absolutely unprecedented humanitarian crisis.”
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quel surprise.
Seems short sighted but Hamas and their apologists gonna have to accept the consequences.
If there’s one thing we know about the left, it’s their inability to accept that what happens is a direct result of the decisions they have made.
‘Accept’ in that the consequences are gonna happen like it or lump not that the whacky leftists won’t still whine about it happening…b/c as you point out they are definitely gonna whine.
My guess is that the continued lukewarm support Israel is receiving from the United States has Hamas thinking this sort of tactic is advantageous.
If Israel had received the sort of support it SHOULD have from the United States, Hamas would have been more fearful of serious reprisals.
Traitor Joe sucks.
Because the animals won’t reveal how many hostages they’ve murdered. And they could have a ceasefire tomorrow. All they have to do is surrender. We didn’t negotiate terms with Nazi Germany. Israel should treat Hamas the same way
What? Hamas couldn’t wait for Biden to have his upcoming Come to Jesus talk with Bibi?
“…blaming the U.S. of killing five civilians and hurting several others when airdropped food packages landed on Gazan residents.”
Too bad. I thought it was a good start.
If Hamas agreed to that, then they couldnt’ claim that Israelis value multiple refugee lives as equivalent to one Israeli life. Oh who am I kidding they just claim whatever they want anyways.
Questionable claims about airdropped food and supplies. Is Hamas remotely capable of being truthful? Never mind, only a rhetorical question.
They started this and now they’re complaining about the results. No sympathy from here.
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Israel could offer one-for-one prisoner exchange. If muzzies refuse rational terms, then wipe them out. Islamo-lunatics aren’t rational actors, stop expecting them to come to their senses if you just talk to them a different way.
Hamas leadership has already refused rational terms. The only thing left for Israel to do is to redouble their efforts and wipe Hamas and its supporters off the face of the earth, retake complete control of the Gaza Strip, and remove all the rest of the Arabs left in the Gaza Strip to Egypt whether the Egyptian authorities want them or not.
And to heck with the Biden regime and their lunatic plans. Israel needs to eliminate the problem now or they will only be dealing with worse in a couple of years.
Be careful what you wish for …. Biden might welcome Gazans over our Southern border. After all what is another couple of million.
“The agency is at risk of death, it is risking dismantlement.”
As Darth Vader once said, “I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it further.” It’s quite a mystery to me why we give one red cent to any United Nations entity. Perhaps we should alter the deal further.
Resistance against genocidal Islamic “holy war,” atrocities and barbarism, and, resistance against Islamofascist/terrorist belligerence in the name of Islamic supremacy, is not “oppression.”
Once again, Hamas proves it has no interest in a ceasefire or any diplomacy. All they know is violence.
Then let them have it; let Ramadan be the month of extermination of those that can’t be civilized.
“…walk away from ceasefire talks being held in Cairo…”
Well, isn’t it obvious? They’re waiting for the new pier to be built so they can have pier talks…a beer on the pier beats a demand in the sand.
The only good a radical Islamic terrorist can do is die.
Not quite sure what it is Hamas has to offer in negotiations other than handing over the hostages AND surrendering.
In return Hamas doesn’t get to suffer any further deaths.
That IS the only deal on the table.
Sadly, it’s safe to assume there are many dead and tortured among the hostages. Hamas will only make a deal under force.
Also sad is how little outrage or attention paid to the Americans that were killed and kidnapped. Yellow ribbons anyone? Guess the Hamas advocates and sympathizers here in America cannot allow that, as the Administration cowers to aggression.
I don’t understand Hamas position. My original thought was that 7 October was supposed to invoke an Israeli response and invasion. There could be no other outcome. So, what did Hamas expect would happen next? I can only speculate, of course, but I believe they expected two things:
1. Deaths of Palestinian civilians would cause condemnation of Israel and a unification of all middle-eastern states against Israel, and even perhaps EU, Chinese, and UN sanctions. Israel looks bad and is economically punished for over-reacting.
2. As happens with all militaries who have not been tested in a long time, they had started to believe their own propaganda; the tunnel network was to be their impenetrable ‘Maginot Line’.
By now however, it must be obvious that they are only getting lip service from everyone except the Houthis who will eventually learn about hubris themselves. Israel isn’t really suffering unbearable economic sanctions. It also seems plain that their tunnel defense system has failed them. So what is the plan now? Are they so ideologically drive that they really will ‘fight to the death’? Surely not. Yet they have to have noticed that Egypt has kept the border closed, putting their collective back to the border-wall. Perhaps the “Top Ten” of the leadership will get out via tunnels under the fence, but no viable military force will remain.
So they must still expect “The World” to step in and stop Israel. BUT:
Blaming the U.S. for killing Palestinians with mercy food drops and doing so in vivid propaganda surely can’t help their cause, can it?
So gentlemen what the Hell does Hamas hope to gain by rejecting negotiations? Freeing some hostages would gain them time to regroup, and put pressure on Israel (“You’ve gotten your citizens back, so stop!”).
But – no deal or even any pretense of negotiating?
What is the plan??
These articles kind of get on my nerves. It almost sounds surprised that Hamas left the Negotiations.
Like they actually believed that Hamas was “Negotiating” in good faith.
They weren’t, they never have, and they never will. All they are doing is using it as a way to air their supposed grievances and try to rally sympathy.
Hamas is evil and sometimes the only way to defeat evil is to treat it as a cancer, if you don’t eradicate it all the way back to the source then you will never be rid of it.
Canada is apparently still funding the Hamas UN agency
You don’t negotiate with two legged animals like Hamas you eradicate them no matter how long and whatever it takes
This year’s Ramadan will a ‘month of Jihad,’ spokesperson for Hamas terrorist fighting force al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Obaida, declared Friday.
Stop me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Hamas threatening a “month of jihad” for Ramadan like Americans threatening turkey dinners for Thanksgiving? It’s just what you do.
When was the last time Ramadan wasn’t a month of jihad and heightened attacks on Israel?