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Hamas Cries Uncle, Makes Desperate Hostage Offer-According to a new report, the terrorist government has offered to release all the civilian hostages it took on October 7th in exchange for just a five-day pause in hostilities.
2023-11-05
[RedState] How do you know Hamas is on the ropes as Israeli forces continue to encircle Northern Gaza? Because they are making offers like this.

According to a new report, the terrorist government has offered to release all the civilian hostages it took on October 7th in exchange for just a five-day pause in hostilities.

Although the terms have varied in recent weeks, Hamas has indicated most recently that it would release all civilian hostages in exchange for a five-day pause, according to diplomats familiar with the discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity about the sensitive matter. Israeli military captives, whose precise number is unknown, would be retained, possibly to eventually be offered in trade for Palestinian prisoners in Israel.
Except the Palestinians define all Israeli Jews as not civilian. Counteroffer: release all captives, military and civilian, living and dead, including the four for whom Israel has been negotiating for years, and then a pause can be discussed.
Sporadic, indirect negotiations are being held in Doha, Qatar’s capital, where they have waxed and waned depending on the tempo of Israeli strikes. With Qatari officials as go-betweens, the United States has been variously represented by Barbara Leaf, the State Department’s assistant secretary for the Near East, and White House and State Department hostage negotiators, diplomats said. Representatives of Israel’s Mossad national intelligence agency have also traveled to Doha. Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s top political leader, who lives in Turkey, has participated, along with former leader and current head of Hamas diaspora affairs Khaled Meshaal, who lives in Qatar.


Hamas suspends evacuation of foreign passport holders, dual nationals from Gaza

[IsraelTimes] 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...
’s Hamas
...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
rulers have suspended the evacuation of foreign passport holders to Egypt Saturday after Israel refused to allow some maimed Paleostinians to be evacuated to Egyptian hospitals, a border official tells AFP.

"No foreign passport holder will be able to leave the Gaza Strip until maimed people who need to be evacuated from hospitals in north Gaza are transported through the Rafah crossing" to Egypt, the official says on condition of anonymity.
The wounded are Hamas fighters. Of course Egypt doesn’t want them.
The official doesn’t give any information on the identities of the maimed. A senior US administration official said yesterday that Hamas has tried to smuggle its fighters out of Gaza among the maimed Paleostinians.
See?
Posted by:NoMoreBS

#8  ...And were they to get the ceasefire, we would be faced with the sudden discovery that all the hostages had sadly been killed by Israeli bombing.

Do not give these monsters a moment's respite. Let them die tired and terrified.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2023-11-05 16:15  

#7  #6: and good riddance!
Posted by: irish rage boy   2023-11-05 14:55  

#6  The Donald teaches us to think big when negotiating. May I suggest as a counteroffer: release all captives, military and civilian, living and dead, including the four for whom Israel has been negotiating for years, after which we will kill you all.
Posted by: SteveS   2023-11-05 12:29  

#5  What Hamas is asking for is a 5 day hudna.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2023-11-05 11:35  

#4  no. kill them all.
Posted by: irish rage boy   2023-11-05 11:01  

#3  They don't seem terribly dedicated to dying for their cause.
Posted by: ed in texas   2023-11-05 08:45  

#2  Hamas has tried to smuggle its fighters out of Gaza

And here I thought they believed they would receive paradise if they died fighting the infidel.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-11-05 06:15  

#1  Jon Voight responds to his daughter: Israel was attacked by inhuman terror
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-11-05 01:00  

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