The armed wing of the Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Monday it told Qatari mediators the group was ready to release up to 70 women and children held in Gaza in return for a five-day truce with Israel.

The armed wing of the Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Monday it told Qatari mediators the group was ready to release up to 70 women and children held in Gaza in return for a five-day truce with Israel.

  • JoeHill@lemmy.worldEnglish
    82·
    11 months ago

    Headline is wrong. The article makes it clear that it’s in exchange for prisoners in Israeli jails PLUS a truce.

    Last week there was an effort from the Qatari brothers to release the enemy captives from women and children, in return for the release of 200 Palestinian children and 75 women detained by the enemy" Abu Ubaida, the spokesman for the armed wing of Hamas, al-Qassam Brigades, said in an audio recording posted on the group’s Telegram channel.

    “The truce should include a complete ceasefire and allow aid and humanitarian relief everywhere in the Gaza Strip,” he said.

    • pewter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      If the mods were consistent they would have removed OP’s post as per Rule 3.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    75·
    11 months ago

    All of Hamas is an “armed wing” the legitimate government is the Palestinian Authority…

    Israel wants to act like Hamas is a democratically elected government to justify an all out “war”.

    The last time citizens of Gaza got to have an election, half the current residents weren’t born yet, Hamas was the “moderate” option, and Hamas still didn’t get a majority of votes.

    Acting like Hamas is a real government is just some bullshit Israel says, because that helps Israel’s rightwing extremists stay in office. Neither of those two want peace