Screengrab from a video released by the Hamas Movement.
United States President Joe Biden said on November 24 that the release of a first group of Israeli hostages taken by the Hamas Movement was just a “start”.
Speaking to reporters in Nantucket, Massachusetts, where he was spending the Thanksgiving holiday with his family, Biden said that there were “real” chances to extend a temporary ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
“I think the chances are real,” Biden said at a press conference.
Biden declined to speculate on how long Israel’s war against Hamas might last, saying that eliminating the group was a legitimate but difficult mission.
A total of 24 hostages, 13 Israelis, ten Thais and a Filipino, were turned over on the first day of the ceasefire to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza by Hamas. From its side, Israel freed 39 women and children held in its prisons.
A second group of 14 hostages will be released on the second day of the ceasefire. Israel has already received the list of hostages who are slated to be released, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on November 25. In exchange, another 39 Palestinian prisoners will be released from Israeli jails.
Also as a part of the ceasefire agreement, 196 aid trucks were allowed to enter Gaza through the Rafah border crossing on November 25
“The trucks contain eight trucks of medical supplies and medicines, and four trucks of hospital beds while the remaining trucks contain food, water, and relief assistance,” the Palestine Red Crescent Society said on X, previously known as Twitter.
Under the current agreement, Hamas will release only 50 out of more than 240 Israeli who were taken hostages during the October 7 surprise attack on Israel. In exchange for their release, some 150 Palestinians prisoners will be freed from Israeli jails.
Israel repeatedly said that its top priority was freeing all the hostages, thus it will likely agree to extend the ceasefire in Gaza and release more Palestinian prisoners.
america should send the billions in military aid for israel to palestine instead to build a peaceful and prosperous country that can protect it’s citizens and land from the jews.
israel is a western enterprise. it’s a military garrison and settlement masquerading as a nation-state. as such, israel is an extension of the american fabric no different from puerto rico or any non continental us territory.
why arabs are only now beginning to grasp the idea of the us being the farthest thing from an objective / impartial mediator in the region — defies all logic!
not really. “arabs” are ruled over by despots on the payroll of the anglozionazi empire of filth. look at mudman bin salami from saudi barbarian thug to see the classic viper that survives only due to the fiat filth saudi mercan toilet paper dollah. as the fiat filth die$..so too do the thugs running these oily fiefdoms. that time is now.
pit-bulls have to be put down. wherever there are zionazis there is evil. these khazar mobsters are incompatible with peace, much like their brainless golem ussa. hezbollan and iran and the freedom fighters of palestine understand this all too well. the demonic chosenite beast must be neutralized.
the terrorist apartheid so call state of israel calls itself the only democracy is occupying power of arab land for 75 years and now crying out the genocidal attracts on civilians as self defence . what a f’ing joke. the so call international comm. / west must be held complicit to this genocide. you do not have the exclusivity nor propriety to genocidal intent , there are enough people in this world to know and understand what genocide is.’ your lot is becoming a joke.
wiping out hamas is a pipedream
hamas terrorists are barbecued so fking easily, amazing and great job, israel! 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱
says the gimp who ignores the piles of stacked shlomos being carted off in bags from gaza.
🫵🤡 😆😆😆
maybe “joe” would like to be that “special” guest” hamas adds to it’s other “guests.” oops. he requires more care.
i just know we can’t believe anything nethanyashit say, he’s a pathological liar.