Hamas says it's suspending the release of Israeli hostages

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: BBC

Hamas says it's suspending the release of Israeli hostages

Summary
-- Hamas says it's delaying the release of Israeli hostages until further notice

-- It says it's a response to Israel breaching the Gaza ceasefire agreement, which began last month

-- Israel calls the decision a "complete violation" of the ceasefire deal, and says it's putting its military on the "highest level of alert"

-- Three Israeli hostages were due to be released on Saturday

Live Reporting
Edited by Owen Amos and Sam Hancock

Israel says it's prepared 'for any scenario in Gaza'
published at 11:42
11:42

Breaking
Israel has now responded to Hamas's decision to suspend hostage releases. A statement from Defence Minister Israel Katz says:

"Hamas' announcement to stop releasing Israeli hostages is a complete violation of the ceasefire agreement and the deal to release the hostages.

"I have instructed the IDF to prepare at the highest level of alert for any possible scenario in Gaza and to protect the communities.

"We will not allow a return to the reality of October 7."

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c2056vkpkrgt

[IronLionZion]

1. Trump will fix all of this

by building Trump hotels in Gaza

[Walleye]

2. Well Donnie? It's your responsibility now

[ShazzieB]

39. True, but he doesn't ACCEPT responsibility for anything!

I'm sure this will be no exception.

[dutch777]

3. Not surprising but so tragic for the hostages and their families. Any way you cut it, the killing will continue sadly

[Think. Again.]

4. I guess trump told netanyahu that jared is ready to start building those resorts.

[brush]

5. So who's at fault now? The IDF continued air strikes or Hamas' suspension of hostage release?

That fucking war will never end if neither side abides by the ceasefire terms.

[AloeVera]

54. Hi brush,

Israel violated the terms. Nearly a hundred civilians killed. Did not allow in the 200,000 (?) tents that were in the ceasefire agreement. Other violations as well.

Hamas did not violate the terms. The NYT and others confirmed that. COGAT denies it of course lol.

The current standoff stems in part from Hamas’s accusation that Israel has not upheld its promises for the first phase of the cease-fire. Israel was required to send hundreds of thousands of tents into Gaza, a promise that Hamas says Israel has not kept.

“Speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter, three Israeli officials and two mediators said that Hamas’s claims were accurate.”

https://archive.vn/IpVOn

Hamas' threat to not release the hostages came as a result of Israel's ceasefire violations. And of course Trump's and Netty's provocations.

Happily they have now come to an agreement. Israel is surging aid and the tents and Hamas has withdrawn its threat to not release the 3 hostages.

TBH I don't think it will hold. Netanyahu does not want to proceed to the next phases - withdrawal etc - and will sabotage it.

[brush]

55. I'm with you on warmoner Netanyahu. IMO he'll do anything he can to not let...

the ceasefire plan proceed to the finish. I think he's with trump's ethnic cleasing/seaside resorts plan.

[AloeVera]

56. Sure, the ethnic cleansing part.

The resort/development? Partly. But that's just a ruse and a cover for the real intention, which is the annexation and settlement of Gaza for Israeli settlers. He can't disappoint his ultra right-wing cabinet members who are chomping at the bit to resettle Gaza. The settlers are already lining up for choice locations. They just have to get rid of the Palestinians first, which is where Trump and his fantastical lies and manipulations come in.

[brush]

57. Whether it's for resorts or plots for loyalists, I know the warmoner wants the Gazans gone.

And will stop at nothing to make sure the ceasefire doesn't work and the cleansiing does.

[AloeVera]

61. Sadly agree.

They just can't feel the pain of others. Nor do they care.

[Lovie777]

6. Damn it......

Eff you shithole musk republicans

[LeftInTX]

7. Here is Hamas' statement

"Over the past three weeks, the leadership of the resistance has monitored the enemy’s violations and its failure to comply with the terms of the agreement.

"These violations include delaying the return of displaced persons to northern Gaza, targeting them with shelling and gunfire in various areas of the Strip, and failing to allow the entry of humanitarian aid in all its agreed-upon forms.

"Meanwhile, the resistance has fully honoured its commitments.

"Accordingly, the release of the Zionist prisoners, which was scheduled for Saturday, February 15, 2025, will be postponed until further notice, pending the enemy’s compliance and the retroactive fulfillment of the past weeks’ obligations.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c2056vkpkrgt?post=asset%3Aba6e1ba3-cda7-4157-9736-bcf5bd761e59#post

I wonder if the cease-fire is off?

[Archae]

8. "Zionist prisoners"

Translation: Jews.

I saw what happened during the previous hostage releases, they were abused, jeered, etc.

Hamas is for violence. Nothing less.

[AloeVera]

52. Have you sern the condition of the Palestinian prisoners?

The ones that make it out of those Israeli torture and death camps alive? Missing limbs, minds gone, walking skeletons, walking dead?

Geez. You know, Palestinians are humans too.

[Native]

9. doesn't sound that way, but if they don't meet their commitments by the 15th, I bet it will be off then.

[Oneear]

10. Gaza Blow UP is coming with Donald Trump wanting Gaza and Hostages looking hungry

Flip your Pennie be best to make a Bingo Card

[maxsolomon]

11. Both sides have delegations in Qatar right now

Hopefully they can put it back together and continue the releases.

What's left to bomb?

[C0RI0LANUS]

18. Hi maxsolomon. Not much left to bomb. From space, Gaza looks like a wasteland.

https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/INTERACTIVE-Gaza-before-after-1698313229







Nearly 100,000 buildings damaged or destroyed.

Sources:

https://apnews.com/article/satellite-images-israeli-airstrike-destruction-gaza-4477db1cfc39f38ac6cfff55330a7635

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67565872

[Mike 03]

37. That is a remarkable graphic.

Thanks for posting it. I know that Gaza is in ruins, but a map view is better. Chilling.

Who is going to want to vacation, breathing in that toxic, cancerous mess and sleeping over nebulized body parts?

[C0RI0LANUS]

40. Hi Mike 03. Boy, did you say it. After the 2004 Battle of Fallujah, the US left Depleted Uranium (DU) residue.

The children and families are still suffering birth defects in Fallujah. This is parallel to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors of the US atomic bomb attacks in Aug 1945.


Baby Fatima Ahmed, born with deformities.




So, who knows how much toxicity is baked into the Gaza environment now? And because of Gaza's density, the Palestinians suffered more in one year than the Ukrainians in three years of Putin's Nakba.



Sources:

https://conflictandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1752-1505-5-15

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1134142704



ICC-indicted war criminal and pal of Donald Trumpf, Benjamin Netanyahu.

[EX500rider]

46. "who knows how much toxicity is baked into the Gaza environment now?" Close to none?

Depleted uranium (DU) shells are armor-piercing munitions that contain depleted uranium and since hamas has no armor I doubt the IDF used any.

I imagine the biggest danger to returning Gazan's will be the IED's left by hamas

[C0RI0LANUS]

47. Hi EX500rider. Thanks. That was an example of post-war toxicity, like the radiation left in Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

IEDs, unexploded IDF munitions (UXO), raw sewage, diseases from decomposing bodies still under rubble, all pose dangers to the Palestinian people in Gaza.




Palestinians are standing next to an unexploded bomb (UXO) dropped by an Israeli F-16 warplane in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, on 15 Jan 2024. (Photo: Majdi Fathi / NurPhoto via AP).




Ahmad Shabat and his uncle Ibrahim Abu Amsheh at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip. Ahmad lost his family and his legs to an IDF bomb. (Photo: Atia Darwish /Al Jazeera)




There may even be a potential rabies threat to the people in Gaza because of the stray dogs.


About depleted uranium (DU), chemists in Lebanon accused the IDF of using DU during the 2024 bombardment.

“The extent of destruction and the penetration of buildings and ground by dozens of meters is evidence of the use of bombs containing depleted uranium, which has tremendous penetrating power," reported the Syndicate of Chemists in Lebanon (SCL).

The use of such types of internationally banned weapons, especially in densely populated Beirut, leads to massive destruction, and their dust causes many diseases, especially when inhaled."

Imagine breathing the air around this?


The IDF used bunker buster bombs to destroy four residential blocks in the attack on Beirut targeting Nasrallah (Photo: Getty)


Maybe we'll learn more about how much lead and other toxins the IDF left in Gaza after the UNEP conducts an inspection.


Sources:

https://www.newarab.com/news/has-israel-used-toxic-depleted-uranium-lebanon

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/12/15/hondsdolheid-honger-een-arts-per-zevenduizend-mensen-wat-betekent-veilig-in-gaza-a4184345

[maxsolomon]

62. That was a rhetorical question. We know it's been decimated.

Surprised there's so much intact in central and southern Gaza per those maps.

[C0RI0LANUS]

12. The IDF is much more powerful than Hamas and still holds thousands of Palestinians in security detention without trial.

Last edited Mon Feb 10, 2025, 05:34 PM - Edit history (1)

Prior to the current round of prisoner releases, 10,400 Palestinians were being held in Israeli custody, including more than 3,300 held in administrative detention without charge or trial.

Source:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/30/israel-to-free-110-palestinian-prisoners-in-latest-gaza-ceasefire-exchange

[Richard D]

13. A slight clarification is needed

The prisoners (not hostages) Israel is holding are terrorists, murderers, bombers, and Hamas. The hostages Hamas kidnapped from Israel were young people who just wanted to dance and innocent Kibutzniks, many of whom were committed to peaceful relations with Gaza.

We should take it easy on the false equivalencies!

[C0RI0LANUS]

15. Hi Richard D

Before 7 Oct 2023, the IDF was holding 5,200 Palestinians incommunicado, including 170 children. The only way the Palestinians could get their uncles, fathers, brothers, cousins, or sons out of IDF detention was the 7 Oct 2023 attack to seize hostages for a prisoner swap. Thanks to D/Mossad David Barnea, two such swaps took place in Nov 2023.

After 7 Oct 2023, the IDF conducted mass arrests of Palestinians, like the 1919 Palmer Raids in the US.


Israeli security forces arrest a Palestinian outside Jerusalem's Old City on Friday, 13 Oct 2023 [Mahmoud Illean / AP Photo]


Sources:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/11/israel-opt-horrifying-cases-of-torture-and-degrading-treatment-of-palestinian-detainees-amid-spike-in-arbitrary-arrests/

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/10/21/number-of-palestinian-prisoners-in-israel-doubles-to-10000-in-two-weeks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_prisoner_exchange

[Richard D]

16. Are you rationalizing...

Oct 7 as acceptable?

[C0RI0LANUS]

17. Hi Richard D. I'm just explaining what the adversary does and why. That was my job for 27 years vs Al Qaida, ISIS, GRU.

[Beastly Boy]

19. No, this is not an explanation. It is an an attempt at false equivalency.

How many hostages did the IDF abduct since Oct. 7?

How many Israeli prisoners are being held in Gaza, and how many of them were tried and convicted of murder?

[quakerboy]

21. how many were not?

How many palestinians who are currently held in Israeli jails have been through a full and fair court process before being imprisoned?

I genuinely don't know the answer. I do know that the political portion of Israels government doesn't have a reputation for fair or honest dealings. I dont really know much about the judicial portion.

On the greater topic of this thread.. has israel kept the terms of the ceasefire? Has the Palestinian side kept the terms of the ceasefire? If not, who broke it first?

I've been too busy trying to keep up with the devolution of my own country to pay as much attention to international matters as I'd like.

[Beastly Boy]

24. But you DO know that NONE of the hostages have been through ANY legal process, don't you?

And you do know that none of the Palestinians in Israeli jails were abducted and are being held hostage, don't you?

Hence the false equivalency.

And on the greater topic of this thread: if you are talking about the cease fire currently in place, so far the terms of the agreement have not been violated, at least technically. Until today. By suspending their obligations under the agreement, Hamas is now in clear violation. But none of it changes the aforementioned false equivalency.

[quakerboy]

42. that is true.

Unfortunately if any of the prisoners held by Israel are also held without fair due process, say due to angry soldiers or at the behest of bibi trying to use the situation to maintain power, that would introduce legitimate equivalency.

As to the other.. reading the article.. is hamas wrong about israel blocking aid, blocking people from returning home, or continuing to carry out strikes in Gaza, or are they wrong about those being violations of the ceasefire?

[Beastly Boy]

43. That wouldn't introduce legitimate equivalency at all.

There is no equivalency between apples and pork bellies. Holding hostages is not subject to due process under any circumstances, and violating due process is itself subject to due process, even in the cases where it is being violated.

And Hamas does appear to be wrong aboutblocking aid and blocking people from returning home under the terms of the cease fire agreement. It is on them to not just claim a violation, but to demonstrate it. So far, their claims is all they got, and their suspension of the terms of the agreement is very real indeed.

[questionseverything]

32. The idf has pounded the west bank constantly during the ceasefire

I find it odd how the idf separates the two communities as if it’s a different war

[Beastly Boy]

36. It IS a different war.

In fact, there is only one war, and Hamas is the most active belligerent against Israel in this war. The only connection between the West Bank and the war is Hamas militants operating in the West Bank.

Speaking of separating the two communities: the Palestinian Authority has been pounding the West Bank in the same manner IDF has.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/01/15/israel-hamas-war-palestinians-crackdown-gaza-ceasefire-idf/

[TiberiusB]

23. Bold

Trying to present an explanation for why some Palestinians might turn to Hamas and violence to gain any sort of leverage when dealing with the vastly more powerful Israel.

Never fear, though, for I see the forces of willful ignorance and blind prejudice have risen to correct the situation and make sure it's clear that Israel doesn't make mistakes and all Palestinians, whether they are children or the elderly, are clearly terrorists if they are being held.
Trials and charges aren't necessary. They got detained, ergo, they are guilty. What's left to prove?

https://truthout.org/articles/report-israel-detaining-record-number-of-palestinian-children-without-charges/
https://time.com/6366734/palestinian-child-detainees/
https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/news/media-centre/press-releases/conditions-for-children-in-israeli-detention-deteriorate
https://apnews.com/article/israel-detention-jails-palestinians-west-bank-793a3b2a1ce8439d08756da8c63e5435
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-837695

[Beastly Boy]

25. Under this premise, all you have to do to justify hostage taking,

and, by extension, any other atrocity including but not limited to nuclear annihilation, is to choose a supertior enemy to attack.

This military tactic used to be called suicidal and idiotic. But these days, it appears to have gained the status of a legitimate explanation for being suicidal and idiotic.

[TiberiusB]

41. uh, no

Nobody "justified" any such thing. That's the strawman that keeps getting thrown up as a refute the fact that people can become so desperate, they resort to violence, or may support groups that they otherwise might reject (just google Hamas support before and after Israel's invasion). It's also a typical response to the conflict in Gaza overall, which ignores decades of strife and boils it down to "Oct 7, Hamas bad, Israel good".

[Beastly Boy]

44. Speaking of fallacies...

"All you have to do to justify" atrocities is not an accusation against anyone trying to to justify anything. It is a declaration of the consequences of your line of argumentation which shows a fatal flaw in it. Your argument is flawed regardless of anyone trying to justify anything.

Just as "fact that people can become so desperate, they resort to violence, or may support groups that they otherwise might reject" is not a fact but a speculation, a speculation that demonstrates the aforementioned flaw in pellucid clarity. While you are not, as you previously have, mentioning Hamas and violence to gain leverage, you nevertheless maintain your original position that there is no limit in justifying atrocities if only the degree of desperation, in the eyes of the perpetrators, warrants it.

You are not the first one promoting this universally refuted proposition.This is the logical extreme in following the Macchiavelian "end justifies means" maxim.

[C0RI0LANUS]

27. Ave! to a fellow Roman. Thank you for your comment and the links. Keep an eye on this femme fatale:

Gali Baharav-Miara is Israel's first female Attorney-General and prosecuting Benjamin Netanyahu for gross corruption. We could have used her in the US dealing with Trumpf.

[Mosby]

48. Charges against Netanyahu were filed in 2019.

That was more than 4 years ago.

[C0RI0LANUS]

49. Hi Mosby, how are you? Let me bring you up to speed on Bibi's corruption trial.

Netanyahu's case is reminiscent of Trumpf's courtroom tactics of delaying and stalling. In 2019, Netanyahu entered his plea at the hearing which had been previously postponed because of the COVID pandemic. He is accused of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three separate cases known as 1,000, 2,000 and 4,000.



Anti-Netanyahu protesters demonstrated outside the court. He was dubbed the "Crime Minister." (Reuters)

The three indictments:

Case 1,000 - Fraud and breach of trust: he is accused of receiving gifts - mainly cigars and bottles of champagne - from powerful businessmen in exchange for favors.

Case 2,000 - Fraud and breach of trust: Netanyahu is accused of offering to help improve the circulation of Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot in exchange for positive coverage.

Case 4,000 - Bribery, fraud and breach of trust: as PM and minister of communications at the time of the alleged offence, Mr Netanyahu is accused of promoting regulatory decisions favorable to the controlling shareholder in the Bezeq telecom giant, Shaul Elovitch, in exchange for positive coverage by Mr Elovitch's Walla news site.



Netanyahu wearing a face mask in line with public health restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic, enters the court room with his lawyer as his corruption trial opens at the Jerusalem District Court, Sunday, 24 May 2020. (Photo: Ronen Zvulun / Pool Photo via AP)


Billionaire oligarch Arnon Milchan testified that his gifts of pink champagne and cigars to Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife may have been "excessive." (Photo: Reuters)


COVID and the Gaza and Lebanon wars (Nakba 2023-24) delayed the proceedings.

A Canadian newspaper, the Hill Times wrote:

"Netanyahu is Israel’s curse"
Israel's prime minister is playing for time with the war, using it to avoid his criminal corruption trials, and an inquiry into whether he could have prevented Hamas’ brutal attack. The longer that’s put off, the better for him.

In the meantime, the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague indicted and issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu and former DM Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza and Bibi underwent a surgical procedure.


Netanyahu arrives in the Tel Aviv District Court to give testimony in his criminal trial, 10 Feb 2025. (Photo: Tomer Appelbaum / pool)

When the trial finally recommenced, allegations of witness tampering emerged. Three senior aides to Netanyahu were indicted on charges of witness intimidation on Tuesday, for having sent a car with a megaphone to the home of a key witness in Netanyahu’s criminal trial in 2019 in order to harass him. The three aides indicted were Ofer Golan, who served as a spokesman for the Netanyahu family and the director of the Likud election campaign in 2019; Jonatan Urich, who served at the time as a strategic adviser and a senior official in Likud’s election campaign staff; and Yisrael Einhorn, who served as a Likud spokesman.

Sara Netanyahu was accused of intimidating witnesses and Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara ordered an investigation of her.


A poster depicting Sara Netanyahu, with a slogan in Hebrew which reads 'investigation now' is pictured, in front of the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on 11 Jan 2025. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP)

An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.




Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Benjamin_Netanyahu

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2021-04-09/ty-article/.premium/netanyahu-corruption-trial-shows-he-received-something-far-more-valuable-than-money/0000017f-edb5-d4cd-af7f-edfde8750000

Archived:

https://archive.is/mxw1x

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/3-senior-netanyahu-aides-indicted-for-witness-intimidation-in-pm-s-corruption-cases/ar-AA1yOLRP

https://www.timesofisrael.com/criminal-probe-launched-into-sara-netanyahu-over-allegations-of-witness-tampering/

https://www.icc-cpi.int/defendant/netanyahu

https://www.jpost.com/influencers-24/50jews-24/article-822480

https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2024/09/05/netanyahu-is-israels-curse/433174/

Archived:

https://archive.is/FuUE1


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-66035997

https://www.timesofisrael.com/have-you-no-shame-netanyahu-accuses-prosecutors-of-stitch-up-in-court-tirade/

[Mosby]

50. Hey look at this.

They indicted 3 Netanyahu aids for what they did 6 YEARS AGO. Apparently they might be facing 3 whole years in prison. Wowzers. That's some hard core shit, know what I mean.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/3-senior-netanyahu-aides-indicted-for-witness-intimidation-in-pms-corruption-cases/

In the United States of America we call this "freedom of speech". But that's probably going away.....

[C0RI0LANUS]

58. Hi Mosby. How are you? Thank you, I saw that report. Bibi has a mini-Watergate problem going.

The wheels of justice move slow at times, Mosby, but they do move.

[Mosby]

59. I'm OK, thanks for asking.

I am trying to get a BP med figured out. It's a weird one, very strong, and clears out of my system in barely a day. I like it because there are no side effects for me, but if I take too much my BP dropped too low.

[C0RI0LANUS]

60. Perhaps your salt intake has to be adjusted.

[LeftInTX]

26. It's true that Israel holds alot of low level prisoners who deserve to be free. However, Hamas does not want those

prisoners released. They insist on terrorists being released instead. They want the terrorists back. The rock throwers are of no value to Hamas. In 2011, it was 1027 prisoners in exchange for one hostage. One of those prisoners released was Sinwar.

At the first hostage/prisoner exchange in 2023, Israel sent lists over and Hamas rejected some of those scheduled for release. So Israel had to draw upon more violent criminals for release. Hamas didn't want 16 year old rioters. They want hard core. They want Hamas back.

It seems to be the way they do business over there...


List of some of the terrorists released in the 2011 swap at the link:

The Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange (Hebrew: עסקת שליט; Arabic: صفقة شاليط, also known as Wafa al-Ahrar (Arabic: وفاء الأحرار.) ("Faithful to the free".),[1] followed a 2011 agreement between Israel and Hamas to release Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in exchange for 1027 prisoners — almost all Palestinians and Arab-Israelis, although there were also a Ukrainian,[2] a Jordanian[3] and a Syrian.[4] Of these, 280 had been sentenced to life in prison for planning and perpetrating various attacks against Israeli targets.[5][6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilad_Shalit_prisoner_exchange#:~:text=Netanyahu%20responded%20to%20a%20pilgrimage,talks%20on%20his%20son's%20release.

[Avalon Sparks]

22. Sure Jan

There’s no way to even know that without due process.

[Beastly Boy]

29. The overwhelming majority of prisoners that have been released so far have gone through due process.

Dozens of them have been tried and convicted of murder.

[FullySupportDems]

31. Source for that please?

Not snark, I'd like to see the facts

[Beastly Boy]

38. Just a small sample I looked up in my spare time. By no means complete:

https://democraticunderground.com/100219947310

And a few more, for good measure:
https://democraticunderground.com/10143385989

[yardwork]

28. I find your cartoon to be offensive. Please delete it.

[C0RI0LANUS]

34. Now what are you going to do for me, yardwork?

[louis-t]

14. Gee, and trmp saying he will turn Gaza into a resort town

and restarting sale of weapons to Israel had NOTHING to do with this?

[Beastly Boy]

20. My guess is, Hamas either ran out of living hostages or can't find them.

And I am still not getting how Trump or Netanyahu or Kushner made them backpeddle on delivering the hostages in accordance with the cease fire agreement.

[yardwork]

30. USAID doesn't exist to provide food and relief to Gaza.

That's not Israel's fault. It's Trump's fault.

[questionseverything]

33. The evil one and Israel's leader have worked hand in hand

[Deep State Witch]

35. They Need to Give Them Some Food

Starving your hostages then releasing them won't make the Western liberals love you.

[iemanja]

45. Here is some of the actual article

Accusing Israel of "delaying the return of displaced persons to northern Gaza, targeting them with shelling and gunfire in various areas of the Strip, and failing to allow the entry of humanitarian aid", Hamas said it needed assurances from Israel that it would stick to the terms of the agreement.

Israel, in turn, accused Hamas of a "complete violation of the ceasefire agreement" and said it had instructed the Israeli military "to prepare at the highest level of alert for any possible scenario in Gaza and to protect the communities".

[mikewv]

51. Not new news

This is old news from Monday Feb 10. Why is this appearing here?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

53. Because that's the day I posted it, at 11:55 a.m.

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Thanks for asking, and good evening.