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Eugene

(62,767 posts)
Wed Mar 6, 2024, 12:28 PM Mar 2024

Hamas rejects latest proposal as hopes dim for cease-fire: Live updates

Source: USA Today

Hamas rejects latest proposal as hopes dim for cease-fire: Live updates

John Bacon
USA TODAY
Updated: 12:08 p.m. ET March 6, 2024

The latest cease-fire proposal for the Gaza Strip fails to meet crucial demands that Israel withdraw from the enclave and allow residents to return to their homes, Hamas said in a statement Wednesday that appeared to reject the plan.

The statement said Hamas was showing "flexibility" and would continue to negotiate through the mediators to reach an agreement that "achieves the demands and interests of our people."

The latest proposal calls for a six-week cease-fire, a sharp increase in humanitarian aid, release of the sick, wounded, elderly and female hostages as well as hundreds of Palestinians held in Israeli jails, the White House said.

The U.S., Egypt and Qatar have scrambled to broker a deal ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, which will start in a few days. But talks are underway in Cairo without Israel after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to send a delegation until Hamas provides more information on the number of hostages still alive and their health status.

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Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/israel-hamas/2024/03/06/israel-hamas-war-gaza-live-updates/72863837007/

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Hamas rejects latest proposal as hopes dim for cease-fire: Live updates (Original Post) Eugene Mar 2024 OP
So stopping the deaths of Palestinians AZSkiffyGeek Mar 2024 #1
No, because if they stop the war Hamas can't splash images of dead and starving children across tv screens. Ray Bruns Mar 2024 #2
No. Israel is to blame for everything. All they have to do is surrender in a war that started because Hamas AZLD4Candidate Apr 2024 #3

AZSkiffyGeek

(12,663 posts)
1. So stopping the deaths of Palestinians
Wed Mar 6, 2024, 12:51 PM
Mar 2024

Isn’t “in the interest of (Hamas’) people.”
But I’m sure the useful idiots will blame Biden.

Ray Bruns

(4,726 posts)
2. No, because if they stop the war Hamas can't splash images of dead and starving children across tv screens.
Wed Mar 6, 2024, 02:31 PM
Mar 2024

AZLD4Candidate

(6,366 posts)
3. No. Israel is to blame for everything. All they have to do is surrender in a war that started because Hamas
Mon Apr 1, 2024, 04:49 AM
Apr 2024

only has terrorism to use as a weapon against a racist, genocidal, apartheid state. October 7th was a victory for Palestinian liberation and if Israel doesn't want another one, they need to surrender, lay down their guns, and vacate completely.

Remember, Israel is to blame for EVERYTHING according to useful idiots, neo anti-Semites that mask their Jew hatred in politics, and Hamas supporters.

We all should have just let ourselves be exterminated in the 1940s and then there would be no problems today.

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