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Report: Hamas unsure of whether it has 40 live hostages for prisoner swap
Israel National News ^ | April 11, 2024 | Staff

Posted on 04/11/2024 5:56:42 AM PDT by silent majority rising

The Hamas terror group has expressed uncertainty as to whether it could gather 40 civilian hostages for release in a prisoner swap deal with Israel, officials familiar with the negotiations said.

The terror group's uncertainty complicates talks for a deal which would include a six-week ceasefire, the return of Gazans to northern Gaza, and the release of hundreds of convicted terrorists in exchange for less than a third of the hostages currently held in Gaza.

According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), a Hamas official said that the terror organization would not commit to releasing 40 living hostages, but would commit to 40 hostages in total.

Hamas took approximately 240 Israelis hostage on October 7, and approximately 100 were freed in a November 2023 prisoner swap. Of the 133 remaining, 34 have been confirmed dead, but later reports claimed that at least 50 had been killed, indicating that around 80 might still be alive.

WSJ noted that US officials familiar with intelligence have said that according to some US estimates, most of the hostages are already dead. Of those, it is likely that most died of injuries from their initial capture, while others died of health issues or from violence. Still others were already dead when their bodies were taken hostage by Gaza terrorists.

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TOPICS: Hamas; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: slaughter
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What does O'Biden say when 20 are left alive? Oh sure, that's OK, let's just get what is left and have a six month ceasefire so that Hamas can rearm and Iran can wipe out the Jews from the North. It doesn't sound too fair or just to me.
1 posted on 04/11/2024 5:56:42 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: silent majority rising

How many did they rape and murder? Libs don’t care as long as they can wave their cute little flags.


2 posted on 04/11/2024 5:59:26 AM PDT by bray (Science says a human life begins at conception.)
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-——The terror group’s uncertainty——

results from loss of command and control.

The brutally mangled hand doesn’t know if there is still a right hand


3 posted on 04/11/2024 6:01:56 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: silent majority rising

IOW, most of them are now dead as we’ve all figured.


4 posted on 04/11/2024 6:03:11 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: bert

From Israel Breaking News: “Hamas acknowledges it lacks sufficient living Israeli captives for a deal, with intelligence indicating most hostages are deceased. The group delays negotiations fearing exposure of its deceit about captive status. WSJ”


5 posted on 04/11/2024 6:03:22 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: bert

“...results from loss of command and control...” ??

Seriously!

That Oct 7 thing was a motor march from the giddy up!!


6 posted on 04/11/2024 6:14:27 AM PDT by SMARTY ("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
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To: silent majority rising

The media is as low as the common criminal/pedophile. They are embarrassments to their friend’s, family and their children should shun them.

When the Iranian terrorists took Americans hostage during the hapless Carter administration, the nightly news kept a running tally of the days in captivity and the media SAID THEIR NAMES. “America Held Hostage Day…” I have not seen anything like that from the lowlife media.

Instead the mendacious reprobate talking heads of today side with America’s enemies. Disgusting vile people.


7 posted on 04/11/2024 6:20:35 AM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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Of course! How can there be an accurate accounting on THEIR part, if Gazan civilians were abducting and killing Israeli's with wholesale, guaranteed license??

The Hamas ‘leadership’ gave civilians a green light to do as they wished with absolutely no accountability and THAT’S exactly what they did!

8 posted on 04/11/2024 6:20:54 AM PDT by SMARTY ("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
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Even worse, what if the hostages are still alive but Hamas doesn’t dare release them because of the stories they would tell about their treatment? How much of that could the media hide from us?


9 posted on 04/11/2024 6:39:15 AM PDT by Spok
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ham ass murdered (a war crime) more than 90 of the hostages they took (a war crime).


10 posted on 04/11/2024 6:46:17 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (DEI = Didn't Earn It!)
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It is time that we start pushing back against these propagandist. A divided house will not stand, and these traitors are doing their best to divide our house.


11 posted on 04/11/2024 6:49:13 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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Amazing the lack of concern for these hostages by Biden, especially the Americans.


12 posted on 04/11/2024 6:52:05 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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After all this time I’d be surprised if there was one innocent hostage still alive. We stopped hearing about them a few months ago. There was a one-year old among them. Sick and elderly.

Forced to remain underground, with miserable food and water and no bathrooms. Damp, cold and dark. No possibility of medical care.

Nobody talks about them. The left doesn’t want to hear about them, because then someone might think that the followers of hamas are vicious, mean, cold, cruel subhuman religious fanatics with no compassion for other humans.

“Le’olam al tishkach, Le’olam lo” “Never forget, never again”, but the world forgot, and it happened again.


13 posted on 04/11/2024 7:06:04 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Delusionary people should not be given power over normal people.)
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If they are alive, they’ve been experiencing inhuman conditions and demonic torture, for sure. It stands to reason that Hamas will not run the P.R. risk of allowing the rest of us to learn the true tale of what these poor people have been through since 10/7.


14 posted on 04/11/2024 7:07:41 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: silent majority rising

No one is asking for “proof of life”?


15 posted on 04/11/2024 7:36:27 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
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They asked. But Biden is putting enormous pressure on them. Surrender or else.


16 posted on 04/11/2024 7:56:02 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: griswold3

They asked. But Biden is putting enormous pressure on them. Surrender or else.


17 posted on 04/11/2024 7:56:47 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: bert

Also many terrorist organizations are notvorganized hierarchically. They are more like franchisees. Their leadership provides arms and tells them to kill Jews. Something they don’t have to be told twice!


18 posted on 04/11/2024 8:08:55 AM PDT by Reily (!!)
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To: silent majority rising

Wow. Hamas is very incompetent.

It’s almost like these are an unorganized group of 80 IQ medieval peasant farmers who are just trying not to get murdered and kicked off of their ancestral land by an invading force of atheist Europeans in funny hats.

That can’t be it though. It has to be instead, that Hamas is an organized paramilitary unit who are trying to genocide the poor religious scholars who are basically proto-Christians.


19 posted on 04/11/2024 8:59:00 AM PDT by nitzy (I wonder if the telescreens in 1984 were first called "free Obamascreens")
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They’re all dead.

Israel should proceed accordingly and wipe Hamas out to the last member. Then kill their families, every last one no matter where they are.

L


20 posted on 04/11/2024 9:00:07 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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