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Posted on 10/14/2025 5:21:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Summary
CAIRO/JERUSALEM, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Hamas handed over more bodies of deceased hostages to Israel on Tuesday, one sign of progress after a number of apparent setbacks in the day since U.S. President Donald Trump touted his plan to end the Gaza war.
The bodies were returned after Israel announced it would cut in half the number of humanitarian aid trucks allowed into Gaza in a move to punish Hamas for what Israel called the militant group's violation of its agreement to transfer remains under the ceasefire deal reached last week.
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Meanwhile, re-emergent Hamas fighters demonstrated they were reasserting control in Gaza by deploying hundreds of security forces in the streets and executing several people they accused of collaborating with Israel.
The outlook for Trump's peace plan darkened further when the president threatened Hamas with military strikes unless the militant group disarmed.
"If they don't disarm, we will disarm them. And it will happen quickly and perhaps violently," Trump said at the White House, one day after he spoke before the Knesset in Jerusalem.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has maintained the war cannot end until Hamas surrenders its weapons and cedes control of Gaza, a demand the fighters have rejected.
On Monday, Trump proclaimed the "historic dawn of a new Middle East" to Israel's parliament, as Israel and Hamas were exchanging the last 20 living Israeli hostages in Gaza for nearly 2,000 Palestinian detainees and prisoners.
But the return of 28 dead hostages has remained one of the final details to be worked...
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He needs to add that all munitions/weapons will be dipped in hog blood immediately before use.
With 1900 Hamas terrorists released back into Gaza, Hamas is riding a high plus restocking their black market supplies.
There are so many arms in Gaza, that unless there is some type of GAZA governing body with deputized enforcement to disarm everyone in Hamas, there will never be control over that region. Plus add in the usual crazies that will remain to oppose such actions, that in no time you will see the usual car bombs exploding against the governing body.
I first thought this would last until Trump is out of office.
I am losing my confidence in that.
Very few released to Gaza. Most to West Bank.
That's probably less than 10 percent of what Israel has eliminated.
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Trump doesn't need to do this. An anonymous psyops rumor stating that lard extract is used to coat the bullets will work just fine.
Trump doesn't need to do this. An anonymous psyops rumor stating that lard extract is used to coat the bullets will work just fine.
Somehow these creeps need to know that there aren’t going to be 72 virgins for them.
Hamas is not honoring the terms that they agreed to? Color me shocked....
Let the civil war begin.
The problem is and has always been humus and Islam.
If there exists anything like a moderate Palestinian, they need to take control, but I doubt it.
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