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Hamas says new Gaza talks have begun, hours after Israel launched major offensive

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Twiglets1 · 17/05/2025 18:57

BBC: Hamas says its negotiators have opened a new round of talks aimed at ending the war in Gaza, hours after Israel launched a major offensive.

Taher al-Nounou, an adviser to the head of Hamas, told the BBC a new round of negotiations had officially begun in Doha on Saturday. There were no preconditions from either side, and all issues were on the table for discussion.

Israel Katz, the Israeli defence minister, said Hamas negotiators were returning to indirect talks in Qatar to seek a deal on the hostages.
Katz called the move a "departure from the recalcitrant position they had taken up until that moment".

It came after Israel's military said on its Hebrew X account that troops had been mobilised for "Operation Gideon's Chariots" to seize "strategic areas" of Gaza and free hostages.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7geg3lvz1o

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Twiglets1 · 18/05/2025 08:27

User37482 · 18/05/2025 08:22

Leave to where though, which country is wanting to take Hamas families? Because I imagine that Israel want actual hamas members out of the strip completely as well (alongside all the Gazans protesting against Hamas, I’m sure they would be relived if Hamas were evicted from Gaza). I think Israel will object to any neighbouring country given what happened with Lebanese based PLO.

I don’t know - it is hard to imagine who would take them I agree.

Some on here seem to think the bloodshed is literally all Israel’s fault because “history” - so maybe they wouldn’t mind them as neighbours I don’t know?

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User37482 · 18/05/2025 08:22

Leave to where though, which country is wanting to take Hamas families? Because I imagine that Israel want actual hamas members out of the strip completely as well (alongside all the Gazans protesting against Hamas, I’m sure they would be relived if Hamas were evicted from Gaza). I think Israel will object to any neighbouring country given what happened with Lebanese based PLO.

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Twiglets1 · 18/05/2025 08:18

dairydebris · 18/05/2025 08:10

Should Israel allow them to leave safely? I don't think Israel can. Hamas have placed the Gazans in an absolutely impossible position.

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I think they should allow the children of Hamas leadership to be allowed to leave safely but other family members, no.

Then again, I'm not a professional negotiator. I suppose they have to keep emotion out of it and squash feelings about what is "fair" to just secure the best deal they can.

The request absolutely reveals the hypocrisy of Hamas, though. They have shown scant concern for human life up until this point, on either side.

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dairydebris · 18/05/2025 08:10

Twiglets1 · 18/05/2025 07:58

Yes, isn't it interesting that they don't want their own family to be martyred, only other people's.

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Should Israel allow them to leave safely? I don't think Israel can. Hamas have placed the Gazans in an absolutely impossible position.

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Twiglets1 · 18/05/2025 07:58

dairydebris · 18/05/2025 07:54

Bargaining to save their own skins while citizens they should be acting on behalf of starve and die in bomb strikes. Hamas, ladies and gentlemen.

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Yes, isn't it interesting that they don't want their own family to be martyred, only other people's.

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dairydebris · 18/05/2025 07:54

Twiglets1 · 18/05/2025 07:50

Hamas makes additional requests

Hamas also requested that family members of Hamas leadership be allowed to leave the Gaza Strip and that Israel promise not to pursue them.

The source also said that Hamas expressed willingness to give up its weapons after relinquishing control of Gaza.

This comes hours after Netanyahu instructed the negotiating team to "exhaust all efforts" to release the hostages.

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-854350

Bargaining to save their own skins while citizens they should be acting on behalf of starve and die in bomb strikes. Hamas, ladies and gentlemen.

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Twiglets1 · 18/05/2025 07:50

Hamas makes additional requests

Hamas also requested that family members of Hamas leadership be allowed to leave the Gaza Strip and that Israel promise not to pursue them.

The source also said that Hamas expressed willingness to give up its weapons after relinquishing control of Gaza.

This comes hours after Netanyahu instructed the negotiating team to "exhaust all efforts" to release the hostages.

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-854350

Hamas offers to release half of remaining hostages for two month ceasefire - report

Hamas doubted whether the US was able to compel Netanyahu to abide by the terms of any agreement, following the release of Edan Alexander last week.

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-854350

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Twiglets1 · 18/05/2025 07:49

Hamas has offered to release half of the remaining living hostages and a number of bodies in exchange for a two-month ceasefire, Palestinian sources told Sky News Arabia.

In addition to demanding a temporary ceasefire, Hamas also conditioned the release on the immediate resumption of aid deliveries.

Hamas also wants strong American guarantees that negotiations to end the war will begin during the temporary ceasefire and that Israel will stop placing conditions and obstacles to the delivery of aid.

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-854350

Hamas offers to release half of remaining hostages for two month ceasefire - report

Hamas doubted whether the US was able to compel Netanyahu to abide by the terms of any agreement, following the release of Edan Alexander last week.

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-854350

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Twiglets1 · 17/05/2025 18:59

From the same article:

In similar posts on its English-language X account, it said it would not stop operating "until Hamas is no longer a threat and all our hostages are home", and that it had "struck over 150 terror targets throughout the Gaza Strip" in 24 hours.

The Times of Israel said that "Gideon's Chariots" - a reference to a biblical warrior - would see the IDF take and control territory, move civilians to the south of the Strip, attack Hamas, and prevent it from taking control of aid supplies.

Thousands of Israeli troops, including soldiers and reservists, are expected to enter Gaza as the operation ramps up in the coming days.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7geg3lvz1o

A Palestinian carries a wounded person to Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital following an Israeli strike, in Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, May 17, 2025.

Hamas says new Gaza talks have begun, hours after Israel launched major offensive

Hamas says its negotiators have opened a new round of talks aimed at ending the war, and all issues are on the table.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7geg3lvz1o

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