GAZA/TEL AVIV, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Israel’s government and Hamas agreed on Wednesday to a four-day pause in fighting to allow the release of 50 hostages held in Gaza in exchange for 150 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel, and the entry of humanitarian aid into the besieged enclave.

  • Alto@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    No, but they knew exactly what the Israeli reaction would be, and that said reaction would end up providing a wave of freshly minted fighters.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, but I mean, what is their goal now? Like, in the next few months kind of immediate, the kind of immediate that would cause them to accept a truce? Freshly minted fighters don’t mean much if Israel gets away with ethnic cleansing, after all.

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        1 year ago

        Goal now is to get Israel to withdraw and use hostages to extract concessions including the release of kidnapped Palestinians in Israeli jails and humanitarian aid for beleaguered civilians. The military hostages are probably the highest value from a negotiation standpoint and will be kept the longest.

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        Rebuild all of their terror infrastructure and plan the next murder/rape/kidnapping of Israeli citizens.

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        1 year ago

        I would bet the fights will continue after. Also, Israel has not done ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

        Edit: Though I agree that in certain cases (e.g. 1948), they didn’t deal either with the situation well