Israel's government and Hamas agreed on Wednesday to a four-day pause in fighting to allow the release of 50 hostages held in Gaza in exchange for 150 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel, and the entry of humanitarian aid into the besieged enclave.

GAZA/TEL AVIV, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Israel’s government and Hamas agreed on Wednesday to a four-day pause in fighting to allow the release of 50 hostages held in Gaza in exchange for 150 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel, and the entry of humanitarian aid into the besieged enclave.

  • jaybone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    98·
    1 year ago

    And these 150 prisoners are Hamas terrorists that will be exchanged for 50 innocent civilians.

    So hamas will have more terrorists on their side to fan the flames for Netinyahu’s next response.

    • neeshie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      96·
      1 year ago

      They’re Palestinian women and children, not terrorists. It’s a trade of innocents for innocents

      • LaLiLuLuCo@lemmy.caEnglish
        114·
        1 year ago

        13 women mostly convicted of stabbings.

        Edit: 33 women are on the list of 300 total, I counted the Hebrew source material myself. 15+ is of those with stabbing charges and convictions or general attempted murder.

        Overwhelming majority of minors did fucked up shit.

        https://www.gov.il/he/Departments/DynamicCollectors/is-db?skip=0

        https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-just-convicted-of-stabbing-her-neighbor-may-be-freed-in-hamas-deal/

        • neeshie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          55·
          1 year ago

          Sheik jarrah? So she stabbed a settler? Idk that’s not that bad at all.

          And the teens threw rocks at occupation forces in the west bank? Also not bad.

          Edit: do we know why they’re choosing to release these prisoners? They’re holding over 1000 Palestinians hostage without trial charges, why not release some of them instead?

          • LaLiLuLuCo@lemmy.caEnglish
            66·
            1 year ago

            OK, terrorist. Attempting murder is bad.

            They picked this set because Hamas asked for this set. The actual convicted murders weren’t allowed to be released.

            There’s no hostages in Israel, there’s people being processed by the courts. If you think the wait times are bad go check out Japan and claim they have hostages, or the US prison system with constitutional slave labor and barely any public defenders with the largest per capita prison pop in the world.

            There’s something like 50 women total held.

            All of these people get charged there’s a reason almost no one on the list is there for more than 2 years without being tried in civil court. The military tribunal cases convert over when they get processed. They were charged and their charges are listed in the database.

            • neeshie@lemmy.worldEnglish
              44·
              1 year ago

              I mean if anti settler violence is terrorism then yea I wholeheartedly support terrorism. Settlers should not be there.

              Also idc who does it. If someone is held without charges in prison, they’ve been taken hostage by the state.

      • jaybone@lemmy.worldEnglish
        25·
        1 year ago

        They are terrorists.

        Israel didn’t kidnap them for no reason. Unlike what Hamas does.

        Go vote for Trump and believe in fake news.

        • neeshie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          The over a thousand people held without charges would disagree with you. Are trusted human rights organizations fake news now?