Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal designed to end 15-month Gaza war
Israel and Hamas agreed to a deal to halt fighting in Gaza and exchange Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, an official briefed on the deal told Reuters on Wednesday, opening the way to a possible end to a 15-month war that has upended the Middle East.
Israeli "hostages" and Palestinian "prisoners". The writer's choice of words says a lot.
Every one in Palestine is an Israeli prisoner.
One could argue everyone is Palestine is an Israeli hostage. If anyone seriously threatens Israels existence they will just start killing them even harder.
Well, the Palestinian prisoners are political prisoners in prison, so "prisoners" isn't wrong. But they are also hostages.
Well it’s Reuters so pretty low quality garbage.
37 hours from now, breaking news IDF tests new radiation beam weapon on group of gazan toddlers
This is great news.
I can only hope Israel keeps its side of the deal and doesn’t continue to terrorise Palestine.
Now all that’s left is to sanction Israel, disband its terror network/“military”, arrest its leadership, and put it under international control ensure they can never commit genocide again.
Read this earlier, so it’s hopeful they we’ll see some justice.
Now that the American election is over and Israel got their guy in.
again, Reuters, this was not a war.
From https://apnews.com/live/israel-hamas-ceasefire-updates
Hmm...
I see only three broad possibilities here:
The whole thing is bullshit and there is no deal. That wouldn't be the first time that happened - it'd just mean that the torch has been passed so that it's the Trump administration bullshitting instead of the Biden administration.
There is a deal and it's relatively fair, and recognizes Palestinian sovereignty, in which case Netanyahu will, as he's already done in the past, sabotage it.
The deal is a long-term con job by which Israel will retain enough control over Gazan territory to continue to oppress the people, and to support a West Bank style piecemeal conquest, which will generate enough opposition to not only colorably justify IDF depradations, but will provide enough support for Hamas to keep its not-coincidentally ex-pat leaders living in wealth and comfort.