International mediators have been working for weeks to broker a deal to pause the fighting before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins around March 10. A deal would likely allow aid to reach hundreds of thousands of desperate Palestinians in northern Gaza who aid officials worry are under threat of famine.
The Israelis “have more or less accepted” the proposal, which includes the six-week cease-fire as well as the release by Hamas of hostages considered vulnerable, which includes the sick, the wounded, the elderly and women, said the official.
“Right now, the ball is in the court of Hamas and we are continuing to push this as hard as we possibly can,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House to brief reporters.
I don’t think Hamas will agree to shit. Or maybe they will, and then break the truce a few weeks later. Or maybe Israel will. Neither party trusts the other and I don’t think a ceasefire will hold up unless the United States or UN peacekeepers enforce it, in which case eggheads will point and scream “imperialism!!”.
Honestly, at this point, I don’t think our generation will be the ones to solve the Israel and Palestine problem.
The problem will solve itself in a few months when the people have finished starving to death there.
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Hamas was previously asking for a ceasefire in exchange for the release of all the hostages they held, for what that’s worth. Surely this deal is asking for, at worst for them, that.
They were asking for a permanent ceasefire though, right? This one seems pretty temporary.
No. This is a temporary ceasefire. Hamas has repeatedly refused they won’t accept one after the fucking mess that was the last one.
Hamas’ goal is not to stop the oppression of Palestine, but the elimination of Israel. These topics are related, but not the same.
How are they not the same? Israel is by definition oppressive to Palestine, as it is a colonizer state created by pure legal fiction by the west after WW2. This is doxumented, there are documents about the founding of Israel as “give them part of Palestine, of course the locals won’t be happy but we’ve been colonizing for 4 centuries we know how to do this”
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“Right now, the ball is in the court of Hamas and we are continuing to push this as hard as we possibly can,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House to brief reporters.
A senior Egyptian official said mediators Egypt and Qatar are expected to receive a response from Hamas during the Cairo talks scheduled to start Sunday.
There is increasing criticism over the hundreds of thousands struggling to survive in northern Gaza, which has borne the brunt of the conflict that began when the Hamas militant group attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and seizing around 250 hostages.
The European Union’s diplomatic service said many of the hundreds of Palestinians killed or wounded in the chaos surrounding an aid convoy on Thursday were hit by Israeli army fire and urged an international investigation.
Soad Abu Hussein, a widow and mother of five, said more than 5,000 people — mostly women and children — living with her in a school at the Jabaliya refugee camp have not received aid for more than four weeks.
Also Saturday, Israel said three soldiers were killed and 14 injured Friday when they inadvertently triggered explosives in a booby-trapped building outside Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
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