Article is way better than the headline…
The framework that has been laid out by negotiators says that during a first six-week pause in the fighting, Hamas should release 40 of the remaining hostages, including all the women as well as sick and elderly men. In exchange, hundreds of Palestinian prisoners would be released from Israeli prisons.
Hamas has told international mediators – which include Qatar and Egypt - it does not have 40 living hostages who match those criteria for release, both sources said.
CNN’s record of the conditions of the hostages also suggests there are fewer than 40 living hostages who meet the proposed criteria.
Hamas just hasn’t been taking civilian noncombatants as hostages like Israel has been doing.
Most hostages are combatants, and that doesn’t meet the details for this requirement
The majority of the almost 100 hostages who remain alive are believed to be male IDF soldiers or men of military reserve age.
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So…
Hamas gets hostages returned that are women, children, and elderly, all noncombatants.
They get them back into Gaza where there’s no food and no zones safe from Israeli attacks…
And Israeli gets back some of their boots on the ground war criminals so they can go right back to genocide?
If you were trying to be sarcastic use a “/s”, otherwise people will think that was a serious comment.
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I was quoting the article
And I was explaining how combatants and noncombatants are different…
One are victims of genocide, and the others are literally actively committing a genocide.
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The “later phases” is exchanging combatants…
And they’re willing to do that. Just not for noncombatants.
It’s very simple, I’m not sure how to put any plainer.
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Hamas just hasn’t been taking civilian noncombatants as hostages like Israel has been doing.
Totally untrue
Where are Hamas getting them?
Like, do you think this is an actual war where both sides attack each other’s territories?
Seriously, at what point in the last six months would Hamas have captured non combatants?
I am not here to give Israel a W, but Hamas still has a number of civilian captives from the original October 7 attack. Just not as many surviving as was assumed.
According to Israel’s own figures, there are 90 or so living hostages and 30 or so bodies still held by Hamas IIRC. Apparently most of the 90 survivors are non-civilians, based on what Hamas is saying, but some of them still are.
According to Israel’s own figures,
But not according to anyone else’s…
Israel has been flattening the entire area, they can’t keep track of how many they kill, regardless of what country they’re from.
But the article OP linked even says there aren’t 40 noncombatants left…
CNN’s record of the conditions of the hostages also suggests there are fewer than 40 living hostages who meet the proposed criteria.
I’m not sure what you’re not understanding about this.
Or why you’re listening to Israel still
But the article OP linked even says there aren’t 40 noncombatants left…
Right, I acknowledged that. It’s just that no one knows who specifically is counted in the alive vs dead hostage statistics. It wouldn’t surprise me if Israel purposefully set a number of civilians that they knew had likely already died, knowing that Hamas would not be able to comply with the request, to justify continuing the conflict.
According to Israel’s own figures
Therein lies the problem.
I would say take it with a grain of salt, but there’s enough international scrutiny that I would say the list of missing is probably reliable enough. People in Israel are still protesting the Israeli government about that very frequently. Not everyone missing from October 7th has been returned, alive or dead. Many probably buried beneath rubble from IDF attacks, to be honest, since several were already confirmed killed by “friendly” fire.
Edit: to add, it is worth noting that Hamas is not the only group that participated in Oct 7 and took hostages. There are likely other hostages that they cannot account for because they were taken by other groups.
The hostages were taken on October 7th of last year. Try to keepup.
Try to keepup.
I have…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Israeli–Palestinian_prisoner_exchange
Again, your own article says CNN knows there aren’t 40 hostages left that aren’t noncombatants.
Israel keeps taking civilians hostage, so they have enough.
Since 10/7 the only Israelis Hamas interacts with are combatants. They literally don’t have enough hostages left for this deal, which is likely how the deal arrived at that number.
It’s something that literally is impossible to comply with, and Israel gets to blame Hamas.
This ain’t complicated bub. Your own source agrees with me.
You should read it
And they’ve been repeatedly bombed for the past several months, try to keep up.
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You only addressed half the statement. They are not saying that Israel doesn’t take civilian hostages. They are questioning the claim that Hamas doesn’t take civilian hostages. Follow the thread please.
Is there any evidence that Hamas has taken new hostages since October 7th? Because AFAIK there isn’t.
A temporal attribute has not been included in this statement:
Hamas just hasn’t been taking civilian noncombatants as hostages like Israel has been doing.
But you have added a temporal qualifier:
taken new hostages since October 7th
I think maybe that’s where the disconnect is? I don’t know. I don’t know who or what you’re arguing against.
The temporal qualifier is inherent in the grammar of the statement. Perhaps you didn’t notice it?
In English, the present perfect continuous has/hasn’t been taking implies a frequent and repeated action since a fixed time in the past - in this case, presumably, the start of the current conflict until now.
Since Hamas only took civilian hostages on one occasion, i.e. October 7th, and not again since, it is not true to say that Hamas “has been taking hostages”. They took hostages. Once.
Israel, on the other hand, have been taking Palestinian civilians captive, repeatedly, since October 7th. That’s the difference.
You’re inferring the start point for the perfect continuous and assigning Oct 7; I’m assigning the start point to be the overall conflict in a broader context. I’m being charitable. I might be wrong, but I can’t read OPs mind so I’m being charitable.
You mean Israel went into negotiations making unreasonable demands? Like almost every other time?
What are the demands of each side? Can we lay them out and compare? Or do we know already that Hamas demands are reasonable? Do we always have to take sides? I personally want what’s best for the Palestinian people so I want a ceasefire and return to negotiations. But this partisan flailing isn’t helping the cause. Unless of course we’re ok sacrificing more Palestinians? I don’t get it.
Do sides have to be taken in a negotiation?
I would say yes. That’s the whole point of a negotiation.
Should we grant:
- A. Both sides be reasonable?
- B. Only Israel should be reasonable?
- C. Only Hamas should be reasonable?
- D. None of the above.
I just don’t understand why you’re calling out only one party?
Because one party is demanding something the other party says it doesn’t have.
Problem I think is why they don’t have them now if they had them at some point.
Unless they never had them to begin with; having people and now no longer having them points to killing them which, surprise, hurts negotiation.
Who knows though, Israel might of taken them for innocent Palestinians and did it to themselves :(
Unless it wasn’t Hamas who killed them.
The IDF didn’t put a magical force field around the hostages as they bombed the shit out of Gaza.
The IDF has already admitted to “mistakenly” killing hostages that had been released- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/16/israeli-hostages-mistakenly-killed-in-gaza-were-had-a-white-flag-official
And those were the ones they were caught killing or even were aware themselves that were killed. How many more were killed?
Yeah, I’m not ruling out Israel unknowingly killing their own (or even knowingly I guess) but I think regardless if an explanation (that’s true) by either was possible, it’d be better.
We can. Hamas has been very clear. End the blockade. Remove troops from West Bank. Recognize a Palestinian state. Allow Palestinian refugees to return. Release Palestinians being held without charge. (hostages but with a nicer veneer)
Israel wants their people back.
Those are the two positions.
So from the “River to the sea” has been taken out of Hamas charter? What does their charter state as their key objective now?
The 1969 borders. They still vote to resist Israel but they did actually change the charter in 2018.
Theyre dead, Jim
There are supposed to be 136 hostages in Gaza.
The criteria are for women and the elderly to be released. The majority of the remaining hostages are men of military age (as Israel has mandatory conscription, they are military personnel by definition).
So what happened to the old women and children? Sold into slavery? Dead?
Probably dead or unknown. Terror organizations aren’t usually known for their record keeping.
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And even when they try their best, it’s hard when a larger terrorist organization is actively trying to genocide them and bomb everything they know to rubble.
However then umber of dead they provide is constantly quoted.
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According to who?
The IDF?
Why would anyone be listening to them at this point? They lie constantly about damn near everything…
I mean this is publicly verifiable information in terms of who went missing on Oct. 7th. It would be foolish to lie about it.
It would be foolish to lie about it.
And we all know Israel never makes foolish lies.
https://time.com/6176045/israel-response-shireen-abu-akleh-killing/
I mean IDF has been dishonest certainly but this is something that has been thoroughly examined and vetted by this point. We would know if there were doubts about the number.
These events are also different because they are singular points in time—the lies serve to diffuse criticism until the public attention has faded so that less invested members of the public never learn the truth. So I’m not sure I agree they are foolish unfortunately, though there is of course a long term risk with using this tactic too often.
The hostage count is an ongoing thing. If they continued to stand by numbers that people are commonly discussing and have learned are incorrect, it would be much more embarrassing for them than the above incidents which are mostly forgotten by the general public, excepting perhaps the most recent one which did seem to break through a bit more.
The Israeli prime minister’s office said Wednesday that of the 129 hostages from the October 7 attack currently held, 33 are dead.
So are you saying this article you posted contains misinformation? Or did you not read it?
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What is amazing is that there are some that are ever ready to quote numbers given by Hamas, when they can’t even track 40 hostages.
CNN’s record of the conditions of the hostages also suggests there are fewer than 40 living hostages who meet the proposed criteria.
So…
Even the source of the article you posted is wrong?
Did you even read the article or just the headline?
The look of a poker player that ran out of chips…
They’ve found bodies of hostages all the time. One just yesterday. I suppose you could do some math to estimate probability of who is living. Only Hamas would know,except they claim not to.
They’re saying less than 40…
Which is what CNN is saying…
The only one saying more is Israel, and how the hell would they know when they’ve spent 6 months flattening everything?
Do you think they know when they blow up and kill Israelis?
Like, you think they’re going in and sorting thru the rubble to check?
There’s no logical reason Israel would have any idea.
Like, you’ve been saying we need to listen to Israel’s numbers. You’re still saying we have to…
And then this:
Only Hamas would know,except they claim not to.
There’s no logical consistency, you’re claiming two opposite things at the same time
Okay how about 25? 24 and 3 fingers?..wrong cartel! Sinaloa guys, we’ll get back to you later… At! I meant at you later. Sorry I’m new at this negotiation shit. Let’s start over.
Okay, my name is…is…hmmm… Pedro. What’s your name? And you said Carlos does have the two testicles? Okay okay. Look let’s not do someth…he has only one testicle not? Not his testicle. Oh man, poor kid, listen guy, I was just pooping and I picked up the phone without checking, I think you got the wrong number. Yeah I’m real sorry. I hope you find Carlo’s friends, I really do.
Racism, everybody.
Don’t pepe pecas pica papas me! I can say that with my ass backwards any day. And if your up for it I can anti tarabitatongulate any plank that your best tarabitatongular has entarabintantigulated. This is something that only a brown person from my colloquial origins would understand. So if you would please allow me to make fun of my own people in a language other than my original one, I would admire you deeply.
Y so no, pus no. Pero si si si. Ni miercoles!
