Hamas has proposed a ceasefire plan that would quiet the guns in Gaza for four-and-a-half months, during which all hostages would go free, Israel would withdraw its troops from the Gaza Strip and an agreement would be reached on an end to the war.

There was no immediate public response from Israel, which has said it will not pull its troops out of Gaza until Hamas is wiped out.

The Hamas counterproposal envisages three phases of a truce, lasting 45 days each. Militants would exchange remaining Israeli hostages captured on Oct. 7 for Palestinian prisoners. The reconstruction of Gaza would begin, Israeli forces would withdraw completely, and bodies and remains would be exchanged.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived overnight in Israel after meeting the leaders of mediators Qatar and Egypt.

A source close to the negotiations said the Hamas counterproposal did not require a guarantee of a permanent ceasefire at the outset, but an end to the war would have to be agreed during the truce before the final hostages were freed.

  • BB69@lemmy.worldEnglish
    58·
    11 months ago

    Yes, I’m sure that justifies killing and kidnapping over 1,000 people.

    • Shyfer@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      91·
      11 months ago

      Nothing justifies it, but if you want to know why it happened you’re going to have to look before October 7th. Decades and decades before it even. And you’ll have to be honest about all the things Israel has done, all the people they’ve killed (way more than 1,000 btw), and all the land they’ve taken. And that they continued to do so recently, even before October 7th.

      • BB69@lemmy.worldEnglish
        47·
        11 months ago

        So then you go back to the three separate wars the Arab states started all the way back at the beginning.

        Hamas will never change. Hamas is a terrorist organization. As long as Gaza lets them lead, this cycle will never be broken.

        • Shyfer@ttrpg.networkEnglish
          51·
          11 months ago

          That war was started because Britain betrayed the promise to the Palestinians and gave their land that they already lived on to another state without any of their input.

          Gaza doesn’t let them do anything. Hamas won an election once and there hasn’t been another one since. And the same thing can be said about Israel. They actually have elections and they choose to elect people that prolong the cycle of violence through constant land grabs, apartheid policies, and occupation.