OAN’s Brooke Mallory
1:00 PM – Friday, March 15, 2024
As negotiations continue over a temporary ceasefire and hostage agreement in the conflict with Israel, Hamas presents a formal counteroffer, sparking weeks of expectations that more Israelis will be kidnapped on October 7. It was the first time in my life that I felt so excited.th It may be liberated and hostilities may end.
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But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed on Thursday night in a meeting with the families of about 20 prisoners that the terrorist group was making “ridiculous demands,” raising questions about whether the negotiations would proceed.
“We can now imagine holding them again for the first time,” said the Hostage and Missing Families Forum, a group set up to lobby on behalf of prisoners of war. “Please give us this right.”
The counter-proposal comes after weeks of contentious negotiations in which both Israeli and Hamas leaders expressed pessimism about finding common ground.
The conditions Hamas laid out were for hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli prisons, including 100 people convicted of murder or multiple murders, in exchange for the release of innocent hostages, including women, children, and PLA prisoners. demands the release of security prisoners. The elderly and the sick.
According to the proposal, to free the remaining male hostages, whom Hamas considers “freedom fighters,” Israel would agree to a long-term ceasefire, evacuate Gaza, and evacuate all Palestinian security prisoners it holds. need to be released. As to whether they were photographed during military service.
At a war cabinet meeting on Friday, Netanyahu rejected the parameters as “still absurd.” He also declared that Israeli forces continue to prepare for an imminent invasion of Rafah, a city in southern Gaza that is home to about 1.5 million Palestinians. However, Israeli officials say many of them are Hamas leaders or members.
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