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The looming ceasefire in the Gaza Strip will last six weeks, with Hamas releasing three hostages every week, according to Reuters.

Hamas will release female hostages and those under 19 years old first, followed by men over 50.

Israel will release thirty Palestinian prisoners for each hostage released and fifty for each Israeli female soldier.

Hamas will release a total of 33 hostages during the first phase, including all women (including soldiers), children, and men over 50.

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[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Headline obscures the hostages released by the zios. These are largely women and children who've been kidnapped, tortured and SA'd.

[-] ubergeek@lemmy.today 4 points 9 hours ago

Turns out?

The ceasefire lasted less than a day. Then Israel decided to go do some more slaughtering.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Ceasefire officially starts on Sunday. After that Biden steps down and the genocide ends. Israel is killing as many kids as they can until then. Unless Trump turns out as easy to manipulate as Biden and he gives Netanyahu the green light after a few days.

[-] ubergeek@lemmy.today 4 points 9 hours ago

The Nakba never ended, and the colonizer always lies.

[-] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 16 points 20 hours ago

How many innocent Palestinians will get arrested in the West Bank for every Palestinian they release?

Are they going to release these prisoners back into Gaza to starve or be bombed?

[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

There’s been reporting that they’ll move them into Gaza even if they weren’t from there before.

[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 day ago

Didn't they start blasting within 24 hours of the last ceasefire?

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Which is why Hamas is only releasing three per week.

[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago

I betting this one goes to shit again and the world won't care again.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Very possible. But it is hard to get any worse than it already was.

[-] oakey66@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Fuck Biden for not making this happen right away. There is now evidence in the polling that people stayed home because of Biden enabling this Nazi style extermination.

[-] john89@lemmy.ca 3 points 15 hours ago

I stayed home because establishment democrats do not represent the interests of the working class.

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Reminds me of jimmy carter and the iran hostage crisis.

[-] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Reagan paid the Iranians to hold the hostages til after the election.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There is now also evidence that staying home and not voting Democrat was the correct choice to stop the genocide.

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

I don't know why this is getting downvoted because the current implication that everyone is reporting is that Trump's administration was involved in this ceasfire deal in some capacity.

You could maybe argue that perhaps Biden leveraged the threat of Trump continuing to support Israel which would prevent any ceasfire deal after he takes over. But then it doesn't seem to match the Israeli response, especially those who did not want a ceasfire. Why would Biden be able to suddenly strongarm Israel on his last few days in office?

The other option is that Trump for whatever reason did not value continuing to supply Israel with arms similar to how he's about to drop Ukraine. Netanyahu sees value in negotiating it under Biden to get the most he can out of it before Trump takes over. But then his former lobbying for Trump doesn't make sense.

Could also have just been pressure on Hamas that they perceived which caused them to cave in, since the agreement isn't exactly permanent, nor does it address the wider issues of who will eventually control Gaza.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)
[-] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago
[-] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Flailing

Incoherent

[-] Grapho@lemmy.ml 9 points 22 hours ago

I thought Trump was gonna ramp it up and nuke the entirety of Gaza and the West Bank on day one, tho?

Don't get me wrong, death to America regardless of the septuagenarian in the hot seat, but y'all need to pick a lane lol

[-] macabrett@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

Not really the same situation, is it? Was Jimmy Carter sending Iran billions of dollars in weapons while also claiming he was attempting to get the hostages released? Do you have evidence that Israel was working with the Trump campaign to delay a ceasefire? When Reagan was campaigning against Jimmy Carter, was he making claims that Iran should kill all of the hostages?

Because the reporting seems to indicate that Trump's people simply put pressure on Israel and now this is the result.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/15/a-stern-message-how-return-of-trump-loomed-over-gaza-ceasefire-negotiations

Sure doesn't sound like they were working together, moreso that Trump was willing to put pressure where Biden was not. I say this as someone who loathes Trump.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago

Israel delayed stopping their Genocide by 1.5 years especially for Trump.

Luckily Biden kept topping up those 2000 pound bombs Israel would have ran out of like 50 times by now.

[-] teagrrl@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago
[-] ubergeek@lemmy.today 2 points 9 hours ago

It didn't. Unshockingly, Israel decided some more murdering was needed.

[-] No1@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
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