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WaPo: ‘Tentative' Deal for 5-Day Pause in Gaza, 50+ Hostages (No Soldiers, Men); Bibi says no deal yet
[Breitbart] The Washington Post reported Saturday night (in Israel, Sunday morning) that a tentative deal had been reached in which there would be a five-day pause in fighting in Gaza in exchange for the release of at least 50 female and child hostages by Hamas.

No men would be released under the deal, and no male or female soldiers, according to the Post, which cited unnamed officials describing an agreement brokered by the U.S. and Qatar as intermediaries between Israel and the Hamas terror organization.

US official: No significant pause in war until all women and child hostages are freed

[IsraelTimes] Aligning Biden administration with Israel, Brett McGurk says ’the release of a large number of hostages’ will also lead to ’a massive surge of humanitarian relief’ into the Strip

US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
’s main adviser on the Middle East said Saturday there would be not be a "significant pause" in the Israel-Hamas
...always the voice of sweet reason...
war until all women and kiddies held by murderous Moslems in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
are freed, aligning the administration with Israel’s position.

"The surge in humanitarian relief, the surge in fuel, the pause... will come when hostages are released," Brett McGurk told a security conference in Bahrain.

The release of "all women, children, toddlers and babies" would result in "a significant pause... and a massive surge of humanitarian relief," he elaborated.

The "onus is on Hamas," McGurk said, to take steps that would lead to a pause in the fighting.
From another Times of Israel article:
Prime Minister Netanyahu, at his ongoing press conference, is asked if he passed up a serious deal on Tuesday for a release of some 50 hostages, and if he’s insisting that all be released.

Netanyahu says “There was no deal on the table” and he can’t elaborate further.

“We want to get back all the hostages,” he says. “We’re doing the utmost to bring back the most possible, including in stages, and we are united on this.”

“We obviously want to bring [home] whole families together,” he adds later in the press conference.
To summarize: Until a deal is signed, there is no deal, no matter how excited the Washington Post, et al might be about it.


Posted by: Skidmark 2023-11-19
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