Israel has given Hamas a proposal through Qatari and Egyptian mediators that includes up to two months of a pause in the fighting as part of a multi-phase deal that would include the release of all remaining hostages held in Gaza, two Israeli officials said.
Why it matters: While the proposal doesn’t include an agreement to end the war, it is the longest period of ceasefire that Israel has offered Hamas since the start of the war.
Driving the news: More than 130 hostages are still being held in Gaza. Israeli officials say several dozen hostages either died on October 7 or in the weeks since then.
Did you know that the mastermind behind the October 7 massacres was imprisoned in Israel for the torture and murder of several Palestinians and Israelis? He was able to earn a degree at Tel Aviv University while in prison and when he complained about vision problems, Israeli doctors discovered a brain tumor. They removed it, saving his life. He was later released in a prisoner to hostage exchange.
One of the surgeon’s nephews is among the civilians Hamas abducted.
Yahya Sinwar was treated with kindness, despite being a monster who literally tortured people to death. He thanked Israel by leading the worst pogrom against Jews since the Holocaust. October 7 was not a reaction, it was not justified by anything Israel has or is said to have done, it was not an act of resistance. It was nothing more than an unjustified and unjustifiable act of cruelty, an expression of blind and incurable hatred.
You know what struck me the most about October 7, outside of the murders, rapes and abductions? It was the initial phase of the attack, when they systematically and expertly struck Israeli border defenses, when they disabled communications systems and overran command centers, when they used every little trick in the book to defeat a far superior opponent. Had it just been that, had they limited their attacks to purely military targets, it would have been an acceptable and legitimate act of armed resistance, one that would not justify the retaliation Gaza is experiencing right now.
They didn’t though.
All of this was just done so that they could murder and rape their way through peaceful little towns and villages, through a music festival. All of this expert planning and deception, all of the skilled execution was done solely so that they could hurt innocent people who share no blame for anything that the Israeli state has done to Palestinians. Hell, these terrorists were more than happy to torture and kill even fellow Muslims who spoke with the wrong accent or were just unlucky enough to be in their presence. That’s just terrorism.
This conflict didn’t start on October 7th.
Do I care about the mastermind behind the October 7th attack? No.
Do I care about the 25,000 murdered by Israel in the last few months, the however many who’ve lost their lives or homes in the West bank or who’ve been bombed time and time again by Israel in Gaza? Yes.
Go defend genocide some more, I bet they deserved it, right because if you ignore every aspect of history up until Oct 7th they’re totally the worst side. All those children who make up the majority of Gaza, many left without families and homes, just like their parents, and their parents before them. In a never ending cycle of atrocities inflicted by Israel who when they try to improve and overcome this trauma, have Israel fund money into a terrorist organisation to fuck them over more.
I don’t think anyone really thinks that that conflict started on October 7th. But are you really denying that October 7th completely changed the calculus for everyone involved?
They sold out their country and their countrymen in order to kill 1,300 civilians and first responders, for what?
Honestly, could one of you Hamas supporters please explain to me what their end game was? Did they think they were just going to retreat back into the tunnels and the tunnels would not be destroyed on top of them?
Did they think after such wanton violence that Israel was going to stop just because Hamas uses human shields to draw sympathy to their cause, to trick well-meaning people into supporting terrorists?
Nah, they can’t hide now. Every civilian in Gaza has been warned to get away from Hamas and get away from the tunnels. You’d think they would be trying to overthrow their captors and escape. But this is a source of pride for Hamas. They are honored If their family gets wiped out by an Israeli bomb, they celebrate it as martyrdom. They call on all “true Palestinians” not to evacuate and force people to stay behind.
Isn’t it really Hamas killing those people? Didn’t Hamas have the last best chance to get civilians out of harm’s way?
Do you really think people opposed to genocide are Hamas supporters? Not very wise to black/white the narratives.
I think there are a lot of useful idiots for Iran who hear the same three or four war crimes repeated as nauseum by the press, exaggerated by Hamas of course, and then they assume the worst about everything they see without checking the facts.
Wasn’t that you that cited to me a video of Al Israa college being destroyed and even a journalists at the White House was insisting it showed a controlled demolition and implosion, and it absolutely did not show that? I think that happens over and over.
People say “oh Israel blew up a building in the safe zone with no warning!” Well then it turns out there were actually multiple warnings and there was a Hamas commander I side surrounded by his family and friends. Bam, 100 civilians dead. Such atrocity, genocide! people then say. Really, it was Hamas that killed those people.
Check that last comment I wrote you about it. Turns out the IDF is basically saying it was a controlled explosion that they approved, alongside other controlled explosions. I think it’s on Times of Israel. I thought you read that kind of stuff.