• gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Hamas wants to release the hostages as part of a ceasefire agreement. That’s why they took them in the first place.

    Why did they stop releasing them while there was a already a ceasefire? No one has answered my original question. I’m just trying to understand that.

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      11 months ago

      The ceasefire was for a limited number of Israeli hostages and a limited number of Palestinian hostages to be released, along with a limited time truce. As for why that’s the case, Israel didn’t want a permanent (or long-term) ceasefire. They vowed the war wasn’t over the day they signed the truce, remember?