Hamas officials say they have accepted a proposal for a Gaza ceasefire deal that would include the release of half of the approximately 20 remaining living Israeli hostages prisoners of war as part of a phased resolution to the war, as Gaza health officials said 62,000 Palestinians had died in the 22 months of war.
The proposed deal follows negotiations between Hamas and Egyptian and Qatari officials that have been taking place in Cairo in recent days, and comes after the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was confronted on Sunday by Israel’s biggest protests of the war, which called for a deal to secure the release of the hostages prisoners of war.
Netanyahu has criticised the large-scale street protests against his handling of the Gaza war, and his failure to secure the release of the remaining hostages, claiming that demonstrators were giving comfort to Hamas’s position in negotiations.
A loaded one with false statements.
I wasnt aware that significant a number of IDF goons had been captured. The modifications to the text summary of the article confused me so I asked a clarifying question. Including my understanding of the words being used.
Who is to be released; civilians, soldiers, spies, or what? Abducted civilians are not prisoners of war, they’re hostages, unless maybe they were seized from illegal occupations in which case I would say they’re prisoners, but not prisoners of war. I really am just trying to better understand what’s happening.