50 hostages will be released

[Ohlalalalala]

At least a bit of good news in the darkness:

Israel's cabinet has approved a deal with Hamas to secure the release of 50 hostages being held in Gaza.

The hostages will be released over a four-day pause in fighting, a statement from the Israeli prime minister's office says.

Under the deal, the release of every additional 10 hostages will extend the pause in fighting by one day.

The deal was approved by Israel's cabinet after a lengthy meeting that ran into the early hours of Wednesday.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-67481139

Did I call you pathetic or did I call your wording pathetic? Which it was.

Feel free to answer my question of who the "few" affected children in Israel are. What's your definition of a few?

I didn't know either. I knew that Palestian civilians had crossed the fences and engaged in the violence. That was confirmed by Channel 4 News a while back. But I didn't know they had also taken hostages, and I'd never heard of Islamic Jihad being involved until today.

@Fladdermus did the article by any chance mention the source for this: that civilians are holding hostages
I'm asking genuinely as I haven't seen that anywhere and haven't found any credible sources after googling it either.

It absolutely does not. Hamas or otherwise, some Palestinians are terrorists. Not all of them. Not the children.

No I didn't. What happened?

Someone displayed an Arabic copy of Mein Kampf in a display case. That's the level of hatred there.

Forgot to add the link

https://bulletin.nu/mein-kampf-pa-arabiska-pa-malmo-stadsbibliotek

@Ohlalalalala @feralunderclass

You both asked about numbers of Hamas who have been killed. I know that on October 7th Israel Times reported 1700 Hamas fighters were killed that day. Today I found this graphic, which suggests another 2k approx since that day. I think that's a conservative estimate though, there's also no explanation of who these 2k are, they just haven't been counted in the 15,482 civilians.

Early on I went on the Hamas website and they self reported approx 20,000 'members'. Not sure how accurate that is.

It was the foreign affairs reporter at SVT (Sweden's national public tv station).

https://www.svtplay.se/klipp/eXvbGDG/hamas-israel-stefan-asberg-om-den-uppskjutna-fangutvaxlingen

@Fladdermus thank you
I don't understand it lol as its in swedish but i can't see a verified source for this so I'm not sure if it's true
Not even on any Israeli news sites reporting that civilians are holding hostages

Bloody hell. That's terrible. How quickly people forget. I knew there has been an increase in hostilities towards jewish people in Malmö over recent years but hadn't realised how bad it was.

@OuiOuiKitty I've better things to do than argue with aggressive posters on mumsnet.

Really?

He doesn't say where any of his information comes from. I'll see if I can message them and ask.

@Fladdermus that's so helpful of you 😊 thank you

Done. Their auto response says they reply to all emails within 3 days.

Uncertainty, hope for Palestinian, Israeli families before Gaza truce https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/23/mixed-reactions-among-palestinians-israelis-over-prisoner-captive-exchange

@Parkingt111 thought this might interest you.

@Stomacharmeleon yes I did see at the start of the war it being mentioned that another group called PIJ were holding some hostages
I don't know much about them if they are an off shoot of Hamas or rivals in Gaza

I read earlier that they sometimes coordinate and work with Hamas, other times they fight each other.

@Fladdermus sounds about right

I have a horrible feeling this promised hostage release is not going to be straight forward and I'm really worried about hostages. I don't believe Hamas at all. I really hope I'm wrong (((

A charming turn of phrase referring to members of a cult who drank poisoned kool aid and died.

The poster doesn't know what it means but knows that it's terribly rude.

Ok.

Thanks @MindHowYouGoes

It's a bit of a tik tok type response.

I'm not surprised though

It’s gross that you use it so flippantly. Over 900 people died or don’t you care about that?

It's a turn of phrase, not a comment on the People's Temple.