Achieving a ceasefire is easy

[Finlesswonder]

Release the hostages

What's the delay?

getting back hostages is easy too, why to genocide?

I thought Israel had said there won't be a ceasefire even if the hostages are released?

It is customary to take hostages to ensure fair play when meeting for negotiations, allowing negotiators safe passage to and from the site of parlay.

This has been the way of war for 000’s of years. I get the distinct impression that the Isreali hostages in Gaza have no value to their government. The aggression and ultra violence has only endangered them further.

Taking hostages has nothing to do with 'fair play'. Taking hostages is against international law. We have rules for conflict now to make sure we don't conduct wars under medieval practices. Its worth noting that Hamas has given little indication of even which hostages are alive. Its unbearable psychological torture for their families and entirely in line with the barbarity of the attack during which the hostages were taken.

One of the children is 3 her parents were killed and she was taken. What is wrong with you.

What utter rubbish. Gilad shalit, an Israeli soldier captured years ago was traded for over 1000 hamas terrorists, including yahya sinwar, the architect behind October 7th. That is precisely why hamas have taken hostages, they know their value to the Israeli government and people, and know we have always paid a steep price to bring our people home.
And it is ‘customary’ to take hostages to ensure fair play in negotiation ? including tiny babies? That’s ok is it, so Hamas can have their ‘fair play ‘?! Didn’t see much fair play from them when they targeted civilians and butchered and raped and immolated families.
And to negotiate what precisely? Hamas have openly stated their goal is to repeat October 7th again and again and again, and to wipe out the Jews.

'Customary' in medieval times! Hamas takes hostages because it knows that Israel (unlike themselves!) actually values the lives of its own citizens. Thousands of its own citizens are now dead because Hamas' own appalling actions. The attempt by idiots to shift the blame onto Israel for Hamas' contempt for the lives of both Palestinians and Israelis in its fanatical desire to wipe out Israel is becoming more and more ridiculous.

@TravelingPhysioWizard , were you drunk when you wrote that? this is 2023, not the age of the Crusades. Taking hostages is not customary, it is a war crime.

Hamas is happy for the population of Gaza to be collateral damage in their terrorist war with Israel. That's why they broke the ceasefire on Octover 7th, and why they held hostages like a 3 year old girl for 7 weeks and counting.