The Israel Hamas ceasefire
Israel’s full cabinet voted on Saturday local time to approve a cease-fire agreement with the Hamas terrorist group, which is expected to set in motion a pause of the brutal 15-month war in Gaza and the release of dozens of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners detained in Israel.
The agreement was approved in Jerusalem around 1 a.m. Saturday after more than seven hours of deliberation. The meeting’s start time was delayed three hours to 6:30 p.m. Friday due to an ongoing discussion in Israel’s security cabinet, the Jerusalem Post reported. Earlier Friday, the smaller cabinet recommended that the cease-fire be approved, though some members vehemently disagreed.
In Israel’s full cabinet, 24 ministers voted in favor of the deal, and eight voted against it. Because the general cabinet meeting continued into the start of Shabbat, Haredi ministers left behind notes to show they backed the deal.
The cease-fire, brokered by Qatari and Egyptian negotiators, includes three phases. The first will see the release of 33 hostages over a six-week period, starting this Sunday. Those hostages will include women, children, and men over 50. President Joe Biden, who is set to leave office on Monday, said some Americans will be included in the first phase.
During the first phase of the deal, the Israel Defense Forces will also begin a staged withdrawal from populated areas of Gaza, and additional aid will flow into the territory.
The second phase of the agreement will include talks on additional hostage releases, further withdrawals of Israeli troops, and security protocols to allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza. The remaining hostages would be released, and the IDF would fully withdraw from Gaza during the third phase of the agreement if the two sides get that far.
Israel could release between 990 and 1,650 Palestinian prisoners, depending on the hostages released, according to Reuters.
The cease-fire is the second such deal achieved during the Israel–Hamas war. In November 2023, the first cease-fire lasted just under a week. The temporary truce led to the release of 105 Israeli hostages in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners.
About 250 hostages were abducted by Hamas terrorists on October 7. Fewer than 100 hostages, both living and dead, remain captive in Gaza. Israeli authorities estimate a third of those are dead.
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Hamas is a terrorist organization whose goal is the destruction of Israel and the death of the Jews who live there. Hamas is only agreeing to this deal because Israel has destroyed much of Gaza in response to the mass murder of Israelis. The pause in the war between Israel and Hamas is unlikely to be permanent. Hamas is made up of Islamic religious bigots who want to destroy Israel and the Jews. It is only agreeing to a cease-fire because it is currently getting its butt kicked. Its ultimate goal is the genocide of the Jews.
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t.co/LwZfqIhYHp Muslims are outraged and cry “Islamophobia” after the Florida senator Marco Rubio who was nominated by Trump to be Secretary of State, destroyed the victim image of the Muslim terrorists of Hamas in Gaza and called “savages”. He completely shattered the “peaceful image” of those Islam’s worshipers in Gaza, who invaded Israel on October 7, 2023, and raped, murdered and kidnapped hundreds of civilians in the name of Jihad (Islam’s holy war). The media and UN tend to victimize Muslim terrorists in order to preserve the false image of Islam as a “religion of peace”.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Calls President Trump and Thanks Him for His Assistance in Brokering the Hostage Release and Peace Deal
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The decision by the Israeli government to make significant concessions to the Hamas kidnappers should never be called a "deal." It was an extortion.... The kidnapping was a crime. And the extortionate demand was an additional crime.
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Israel's Air Force blazes air superiority path to Iran's border
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In intensity and concentration of violence in the 25-mile-long Gaza Strip, it may have been the most destructive aerial and artillery bombardment of the 21st century.
Above all, the war changed Gaza.
The level of physical destruction has been compared to the firebombing of Hamburg in the Second World War.
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The photos at the link above e expose the devastation in Gaza. Gaza brought this on by its mass murder of Israelis and its stated desire for the genocide of the Jews.
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