Published December 11, 2023
Hamas says it’s ready and willing for another temporary truce and hostage/prisoner deal exchange with Israel, while issuing a new warning Sunday saying that if its demands aren’t met, no hostage would leave the Gaza Strip alive.
“Neither the fascist enemy and its arrogant leadership… nor its supporters… can take their prisoners alivewithout an exchange and negotiation and meeting the demands of the resistance,” Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida said in a televised broadcast.
Hamas wants more Palestinians held in Israeli prisons to be freed, after it gained the release of 240 Palestinian prisoners and in exchange released 105 captives during the prior week-long truce.
There are believed to still be 137 hostages held somewhere in the Gaza Strip, at a moment fighting rages in both northern and southern urban areas.
“We have no choice but to fight this barbaric occupier in every neighborhood, street and alley,” Obeida said further while boasting that Hamas has taken out 180 Israeli personnel carriers, tanks and bulldozers. “The enemy’s holocaust aims to break the strength of our resistance… but we are fighting on our land in a holy battle.”
But holding out the possibility of another deal, Obeida also said that the “temporary truce proved our credibility.” The death toll has soared since the end of the truce. The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry now says that at least 17,700 people – most of them civilians – have been killed since Oct.7.
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SOURCE: www.zerohedge.com
RELATED: Israel Bombs South Gaza After Hamas Hostage Threat
Israel continued to pound Gaza with heavy artillery MENAHEM KAHANA
Published December 10, 2023
Israel bombed southern Gaza’s main city on Monday after Hamas warned no Israeli hostages would leave the territory alive unless its demands for prisoner releases were met.
Hamas triggered the conflict when it carried out the deadliest-ever attack on Israel on October 7, killing 1,200 people, according to Israeli figures, and taking about 240 hostages back to Gaza.
Israel has responded with a military offensive that has reduced much of Gaza to rubble and killed at least 17,997 people, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
The ministry said on Monday that dozens of people had been killed in Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip, while Israel’s army reported rocket fire from Gaza into Israel.
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RELATED: Israel-Hamas Conflict: Hamas Warns Remaining Hostages Doomed Unless Israel Meets Its Demands
Posters in Tel Aviv show portraits of the remaining hostages in Gaza that were not freed under the collapsed seven-day ceasefire. AFP
Published December 10, 2023
- Dozens of Hamas members have surrendered to Israeli army, as per Netanyahu
- A huge barrage of rockets was fired towards Israel from Gaza Monday morning
- EU foreign ministers are reportedly considering crackdown on Hamas’ finances
It is the 66th day of the Israel-Hamas conflict, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed that dozens of Hamas operatives have surrendered to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the past several days, adding in a message to the Palestinian terror group that “it’s over.”
Israeli warplanes launched air strikes near the Syrian capital of Damascus late Sunday, Syria’s state news agency SANA said. The Israeli army reportedly declined to comment on the incident.
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SOURCE: www.ibtimes.com
