And then they shot off rockets, so clearly they’d had as much peace as they could handle.
[IsraelTimes] The truce reportedly collapsed this morning after Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...refused to release ten female hostages and instead sought to free abductees from other categories.
This violated the terms of the agreement, which specified that Hamas would first release all women and kiddies being held 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
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
in exchange for Israel agreeing to a truce for as long as nine days, the Walla news site reports, citing three Israeli officials.
Hamas failed to send any list of hostages in the final hours of the truce, instead sending a message through Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i and Egyptian mediators that it was prepared to release male hostages.
Israel responded by saying that it knows Hamas is still holding roughly 17 more women and kiddies and that it would not hold talks on other categories of hostages until they are released.
Mossad chief David Barnea warned Hamas through mediators overnight that the IDF would resume its fighting if another group of women and kiddies weren’t released.
Hamas responded by firing a rocket at Israel roughly one hour before the truce was slated to expire at 7 a.m.
Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan told Al Arabiya that Israel was responsible for the truce collapse, claiming that Jerusalem sought to include female soldiers in the list of hostages it wanted released and refused all other Hamas proposals.
Two Israeli officials told the Walla news site that Hamas recognizes the importance of the remaining female hostages and therefore is trying to hold onto them for longer in order to extract more for their release.
Another Israeli official tells Walla that Hamas doesn’t want to release the remaining female hostages because it doesn’t want them speaking publicly about what they endured on October 7 and during their time in captivity.
The Israeli officials tell Walla that the talks to restart the truce will still take place, albeit under fire.
The officials said that Israel plans to exert significant military pressure on Hamas, which it believes will coax the terror group into releasing more hostages as they say was the case before the truce.
Blinken: Truce came to an end because Hamas reneged on commitments, fired rockets at Israel
[IsraelTimes] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...places the blame for the truce coming to an end this morning squarely on Hamas.
“It’s important to understand why the pause came to an end. It came to an end because of Hamas. Hamas reneged on commitments it had made," he tells news hounds before departing from Dubai where he was in town for the day to attend the COP28 climate conference.
"In fact, even before the pause came to an end, it committed an atrocious terrorist attack in Jerusalem, killing three people and wounding others, including Americans," Blinken continues. "It began firing rockets before the pause ended, and as I said it reneged on the commitments it made in terms of releasing certain hostages."
Israel says Hamas failed to provide a list of hostages it intended to release by 7 a.m. as stipulated in the truce agreement that had been in place since last Friday.
Blinken clarifies that the US remains committed to getting all of the remaining hostages home and discussed the matter with foreign counterparts while in Dubai.