A senior Hamas official told AFP on Sunday that a ceasefire in Gaza may be secured "within 24 to 48 hours" if Israel accepts the Palestinian group's demands in ongoing talks.

“If Israel agrees to Hamas demands, which include the return of displaced Palestinians to northern Gaza and increasing humanitarian aid, that would pave the way for a (truce) agreement within the next 24 to 48 hours,” said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive issue, as negotiations were set to resume in Cairo.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    33·
    8 months ago

    Prior to 10/7, I’d agree. The voters in Gaza elected them to run the Palestinian government for a reason.

    After 10/7? You have to admit they fucked up, in a pretty colossal way. So huge that the only thing I can think of is that they wanted to provoke this insane reaction from Israel.

    Israel had been destroying lives in Gaza and the West Bank for DECADES now and the world at large hadn’t really been paying attention. Oh, we are now!

    So, yeah, Hamas ended up getting the reaction they wanted… at the cost of thousands of innocent Palestinian lives.

    • abuttandahalf@lemmy.mlEnglish
      36·
      8 months ago

      10/7 is the manifestation of anti colonial resistance. It is the blueprint. There was no “fuck up”. There was a groundbreaking military success that embarrassed the Israeli military and state. Now Israel is carrying out this genocide in order to reaffirm its violent dominance to itself and to Palestinians. The fact that resistance begets more colonial violence is not a fault of resistance. It is what makes resistance imperative so this structure is permanently dismantled. The Palestinians of Gaza understand this. The failure after 10/7 was on the world’s part, because it allowed this genocide to happen.

      • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        43·
        8 months ago

        They went after innocent Israeli civilians and was just as much a war crime as what Israel is doing in Gaza right now.

          • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
            32·
            8 months ago

            Dude, who do you think their hostages are, IDF?

            They absolutely went after civilians. That doesn’t absolve Israeli forces from ALSO firing on the crowds, but the incident was caused by Hamas intentionally targeting the civilian population.