Posted on 10/11/2025 3:07:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Israel has begun transferring prisoners to two jails ahead of their release as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal, designed to lead to the release of hostages held by Hamas, the prison service said on Saturday.
Thousands of staff, including prison officers, “operated throughout the night in order to implement the government’s decision: ‘The framework for the release of all Israeli hostages’,” a statement said, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Under the truce deal Israel is supposed to release 250 prisoners, including some serving life sentences for deadly attacks. In exchange, Hamas has until Monday to hand over its 48 remaining Israeli hostages – living and dead.
Taking advantage of the ceasefire, Raja Salmi walked back to her home in Gaza City, where weeks of Israeli bombardment and ground operations had destroyed entire neighbourhoods, said to harbour thousands of Hamas fighters.
“We walked for hours, and every step was filled with fear and anxiety for my home,” Salmi told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
When she reached the al-Rimal neighbourhood, she found her house destroyed. “It no longer exists. It’s just a pile of rubble,” she said, adding:
I stood before it and cried. All those memories are now just dust.
At al-Rantisi hospital in Gaza City, a facility for children and cancer patients, AFP footage showed wards reduced to heaps of overturned metal beds, gaping ceilings and scattered medical equipment.
“I don’t know what to say. The images speak louder than any words: destruction, destruction, and more destruction,” said Saher Abu al-Atta, a resident who had returned to the city.
Turkish foreign minister Hakan Fidan will meet Syrian officials, in Ankara on Sunday, the Turkish foreign ministry said.
Defence minister Yasar Guler, intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin, and their Syrian counterparts will attend the security cooperation meeting, the ministry said in a statement...
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don’t F with Jews and you won’t have to suffer the consequences
but having noted that simple fact,
is this the conference in Egypt where Jerusalem is not invited? if it is, then nothing worthwhile can come of it, just a cabal of enemies and buyable western politicians sputtering forth all sorts of impossible “future scenerios for peace in the mideast”
if they think hamas or PLO/PA/Fatah or Hexballah will obey and support peace, they’re delusional. if they really do want peace, these Arab terrorist gangs and their supporters need to be removed from the scene, first.
It should look like that munitions factory that exploded the other day. That looks way too nice.
VOTING YEARS AGO TO LET HAMAS BE YOUR “REPRESENTATIVE” DIDN’T HAVE THE ENDING YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN WISHING FOR—IF ANY OF YOU EVEN THOUGHT THAT FAR AHEAD.
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