Israel anticipates adjustments to the terms of a potential hostage release agreement with Hamas in the coming days. According to an Israeli official, one of the proposed timelines includes a 10-week pause in fighting in exchange for the release of 33 living hostages.
The proposal, which Israel helped draft but has not yet endorsed, involves releasing at least 20 hostages over three weeks in exchange for an unspecified number of Palestinian prisoners. The truce could be extended for one hostage release per day, followed by a second phase of a 10-week truce. During this time, Israel and Hamas would discuss releasing more hostages and a pause in fighting for up to a year.
Hamas initially responded positively to the proposal but said that it does not permanently end the war, which is one of its main demands. Israel has offered to release 900 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for 20 to 33 hostages, which is a more generous offer than its previous proposals. In March, Israel offered to release 950 prisoners for 40 hostages, and in November, 240 prisoners were released for 105 hostages, 81 of whom were Israeli.
Jerusalem expects a response from Hamas on the latest offer by Wednesday night.
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Hamas has Israel on its knees. Netanyahu keeps lowering the price (less and less hostages demanding to be returned) to drop the war — at the same time he keeps raising Israel’s payment to Hamas, a longer and longer ceasefire.
This is already the longest war, by far, in Israeli history since 1948. Israel lost.
fools, Hashem has us on our knees ……..period….I don’t feel like getting whipped for tasteless and lousy ones…..I refuse to stand by jews like Schumer and Sanders…..sort yourselves out…..who is with Hashem and who isn’t
Disingenuous, to say the least. Israel isn’t fighting against Hamas here…even to say it’s fighting Iran is saying too little. In reality it’s fighting the entirety of its own existence against all who oppose it. A political cartoon might show a hydra hiding underneath the land of Israel, with one head poking up from the left as Gaza, another head poking up as Iran, another as Lebanon etc…
So they’re forcing Israel to get on its knees from Gaza, with Israel thinking it’s making progress, when in reality the Hydra is continuing to strike from behind from up North, etc. etc.
They broke the last ceasefire on Oct.7th. Blinkens trips to Israel are so shamelessly choreographed. Hostage families crowding wherever he is and when with a bullhorn screaming “Thank You Secretary Blinken.”Half of them are simply paid agitators. A ceasefire is meant to throw a lifeline to Hamas.It has nothing to do with hostages. The longer Israel stalls the worse things get.