Reason Why the Ceasefire in Gaza Collapsed: Hamas Refused to Release the Remaining Women Hostages

Hotair ^ | 12/06/23 | John Sexton

[SeekAndFind]

Last Thursday a temporary pause or ceasefire in the fighting between Israel and Hamas was extended for another 24 hours. But even as that happened it seemed Hamas was eager to resume hostilities. Two Hamas militants drove to a bus station in Jerusalem and opened fire on a group of civilians, killing three people. The shooters, who were brothers with a long history of Hamas affiliation, were both killed at the scene. But Hamas claimed credit for the attack and openly celebrated it.

Hamas also launched rockets at Israel that day and by Friday Israel announced the ceasefire was over and IDF attacks in Gaza would resume.

Hamas violated the operational pause, and in addition, fired toward Israeli territory.

The IDF has resumed combat against the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza.


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— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) December 1, 2023

But it turns out the attack at the bus stop and the rocket attacks weren’t the only reason the ceasefire collapsed. There was something going on behind the scenes as well. The basic agreement underlying the ceasefire was that Israel would allow humanitarian aid into Gaza so long as Hamas continued to release Israeli hostages, specifically women and children. And for a few days Hamas was doing that but then they tried changing the deal with no clear explanation.

Hamas still holds 137 Israeli hostages, among them 17 women. In talks last week, Hamas refused to send a list of the next batch of women—apparently around 10—to be released, but suddenly offered to start discussing the release of elderly men instead.

The Israelis were stunned. “Our deal was [releasing] the women,” one senior Biden administration official told me about the collapse and the Israelis’ thinking. “We’ll take the men, sure, but they’re not going to jump the line.” Still, Hamas refused to release the remaining women in its custody, the ceasefire collapsed, and we’re now back to watching the resumption and expansion of Israel’s military operation in Gaza.

This raises an obvious question: Why didn’t Hamas just stick to the deal? All they had to do was keep releasing the women hostages and the ceasefire would have continued. At this point the leading guess inside the Israeli government, and it’s speculation the White House agrees is plausible, is that Hamas isn’t releasing the remaining women because they don’t want them to talk.

Speaking on Monday during his daily briefing, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said that “it seems one of the reasons they don’t want to turn women over that they’ve been holding hostage, and the reason this pause fell apart, is because they don’t want these women to talk about what happened to them during their time in custody.”

Three senior administration officials confirmed to me that this is the going hypothesis in the White House: that the Israeli women still in Hamas custody are young, in their 20s and 30s, and Hamas members have raped and sexually assaulted them. “Everyone assumes it seems to be the case,” said one of the sources. “It’s quite ugly.” Said a second senior administration official, “That is our going assumption, that at least one reason they’re unwilling to let these young ladies go is that they have been sexually assaulting them.”

Hamas can justify the murder of Israeli civilians but rape is prohibited by their religion. This is why they are pushing back so hard on the allegations of rape that have appeared in the media this week.

Maybe the statements in this story are intended as a pointed message, a kind of dare designed to force Hamas to release the remaining women hostages to prove they haven’t been sexually abused. For the sake of the women involved I hope that’s the case but at this point there’s no real reason to give Hamas the benefit of the doubt.

[TigersEye]

The Myth: Muhammad Would Never Approve of Rape

It is against Islam to rape free Muslim women, but Muhammad actually encouraged the rape of others captured in battle. This hadith provides the context for the Quranic verse (4:24):

The Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) sent a military expedition to Awtas on the occasion of the battle of Hunain. They met their enemy and fought with them. They defeated them and took them captives. Some of the Companions of the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) were reluctant to have intercourse with the female captives in the presence of their husbands who were unbelievers. So Allah, the Exalted, sent down the Qur’anic verse: (Sura 4:24) "And all married women (are forbidden) unto you save those (captives) whom your right hands possess." (Abu Dawud 2150, also Muslim 3433)

Actually, as the hadith indicates, it wasn't Muhammad, but "Allah the Exalted" who told the men to rape the women in front of their husbands - which is all the more reason to think of Islam as being very different from other religions.

(much more at the link)

[LeoWindhorse]

Free Noah A !
IF she’s still survives

[Candor7]

HAMAS losttheor p;ropaganda battle with Israel once the released women hostages were intervbiewed by journalists.

The Women hostages reported atrocities committed by HAMAS that were inhuman.Pu lic opinion swung around to support Israel instead of the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR.

So Hamas decided not to release anymore women,and likely have now killed most of them.

[Candor7]

HAMAS lost their propaganda battle with Israel once the released women hostages were interviewed by journalists.

The Women hostages reported atrocities committed by HAMAS that were inhuman.Public opinion swung around to support Israel instead of the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR.

So Hamas decided not to release anymore women,and likely have now killed most of them.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Or, Hamas was just ready to fight some more.

Additional hostages can be released in the next pause.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Or, Hamas was just ready to fight some more.

Additional hostages can be released in the next pause.

[vpintheak]

They have probably already been raped and tortured to death by these filthy animals. They don’t deserve to breathe the same air we do.

[Lumper20]

Anyone who believes any of Islams BS is very ill. These Muslims and others from India invaded our USA around 1980. Also, Bush JR. let Mex trucks all over OUR USA. It is high time to deport all illegals.
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[PCPOET7]

My thought was move them to a remote unpopulated Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. then have a no leaving the island rule for the next 40 years. No country wants them because they have a history of stating violence in whatever country grants them refugee status and allows them to mix into their population.

[Long Jon No Silver]

Remember the female reporter in Cairo during Obamatollah’s Arab Spring. She was sexually abused by a mob of musloid freaks. Not even animals are safe from these demented islamonazis

[Iron Munro]

[Candor7]

Anyone who believes any of Islams BS is very ill. These Muslims and others from India invaded our USA around 1980. Also, Bush JR. let Mex trucks all over OUR USA. It is high time to deport all illegals.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Alah Wahoo Whackbar !

[sauropod]

bkmk

[Gaffer]

Are they even still ‘alive?’

[FLT-bird]

I got to the part where Mohammed murdered a bunch of Jews by chopping their heads off because they chose not to abandon their religion and follow him. I immediately thought “OK...so this guy was a complete mass murdering psychopath” and read no further.

Here’s what I’d say to muslims. “Imagine I came to you and told you god had revealed truths, his plan, whatever to me personally. Its time for you to abandon islam and follow me. Would it be OK if I chopped your head off for refusing? What would you think of someone who did that to a couple hundred muslims?”

I didn’t even get to the part where the sick bastard married a 9 year old girl and then had sex with her a couple years later or said it was just fine to murder and rape anybody outside the religion.

[Ciexyz]

Hamas knows this sensitive issue is the best way to stick it to the Israelis. Captured Hamas soldiers have said in interviews that their mission was to dirty the Jewish women and they bragged at how they degraded them. They’ve also raped men on Oct 7, A practice dating back to the ancient world when losing armies were forced to sexually submit to their conquerors.

[Texan4Life]

Well... War is Hell...

Heavy urban combat raged in and around Gaza’s biggest cities on Thursday, with major battles reported in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the north and Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Israel and Hamas have both said the past 48 hours have brought the most intensive fighting since the start of the war.

The UN Security Council meets on Gaza Friday under acute pressure from Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and will vote on urging an immediate ceasefire after weeks of ruinous war.

Israel and the UN signalled that the Kerem Shalom crossing from Israel into the Gaza Strip might be opened soon to allow aid in. Since the start of the war, the tightly controlled Rafah border between Gaza and Egypt has been the only point of entry into the enclave.

The head of medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières said Thursday that Gaza faces a catastrophe extending “far beyond a humanitarian crisis”, describing the situation in the densely populated enclave as chaotic.

https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20231208-%F0%9F%94%B4-live-dozens-killed-in-new-strikes-in-gaza-as-israel-presses-on-with-offensive

[wildbill]

They are probably dead. Hamas should provide “proof of life”.

[Texan4Life]

Nehemia an Lynell Gordon recount their stressful period in Israel and a harrowing, midnight run for the border!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbQJKxubMiU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yyyF_tUVtU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI8D1-bgYaM