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2025-01-13 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Gaza ceasefire talks at ''decisive'' point with deal ''nearly done''; VP-elect JD Vance defines Trump’s ‘all hell breaking loose’, fmr PA minister says trade will be 25 hostages for 1,248 Paleo jihadis
[NEWARAB] Negotiations for a ceasefire in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip are reportedly at a ''decisive'' point, with a deal very close to being achieved.

An Israeli delegation is due to arrive in the Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i capital Doha on Sunday, headed by Mosssd
......
chief David Barnea.

A leadership source in Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
exclusively told The New Arab's Arabic-language sister site al-Araby al-Jadeed on Saturday that nearly all the details of the ''final concept'' of a Gaza ceasefire deal had been complete.

The source said that the mediators were now preparing to announce that a ceasefire deal had been reached, after the Israeli delegation sent by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived.

Negotiations have long been stalled and have been continuously scuppered by Netanyahu and his right-wing allies — who have wanted to keep the brutal Gaza war going — whenever a deal appeared close.

However,
the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach...
this time Paleostinian sources have indicated that things are different and a ceasefire deal is nearly ready.

Another Paleostinian source told al-Araby al-Jadeed that technical teams from mediating powers the US, Qatar, and Egypt and both sides had finished preparing the agreement.

They added that the agreement would be implemented 24 hours after Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, agrees to it.

Vance: Allowing Israel to dismantle Hamas’s last battalions is what Trump means by ‘all hell’
[IsraelTimes] US Vice President-elect JD Vance appears to reveal the practical implication of Donald Trump
...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party...
’s threat that "all hell will break loose" if the hostages are not released by January 20.

"It means enabling the Israelis to knock out the final couple of battalions of Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
and their leadership. It means very aggressive sanctions and financial penalties on those who are supporting terrorist organizations in the Middle East. It means actually doing the job of American leadership," Vance tells ’FOX News Sunday.’

The IDF indeed states that it has yet to dismantle the final two of Hamas’s 24 battalions in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, but that is because they are believed to be holding many of the remaining 98 hostages in central Gaza. Accordingly, the IDF has avoided operating there en masse, so as not to risk the lives of the hostages, given that a number of them have been accidentally killed in IDF operations or were executed by their Hamas captors when they feared Israeli troops were approaching.

Vance does not elaborate on the financial sanctions that the incoming Trump administration has planned against Hamas, but the Biden administration has already levied a host of sanctions against the terror group and has issued arrest warrants for several of its leaders.

The incoming vice president asserts Trump’s threat of "all hell to pay" in the Mideast if the hostages are not released is what sparked recent progress in the ongoing hostage talks.

"We’re hopeful there’s going to be a deal that struck toward the very end of Biden’s administration — maybe the last day or two," Vance says. "But regardless of when that deal is struck, it will be because people are terrified that there are going to be consequences for Hamas."

Hostage deal terms will get worse after Trump takes office, incoming US national security adviser warns Hamas
[IsraelTimes] Incoming national security adviser Mike Waltz warns Hamas that the terms for a hostage deal will get worse if it waits until US President-elect Donald Trump enters office.

“Let’s allow our hostages to be set free. I want to see them walking across the tarmac, or at a minimum, some type of agreement before inauguration because President Trump is serious,” Waltz tells ABC’s “This Week.”

“Any deal will only get worse for Hamas, and there will be all hell to pay in the Middle East if we continue to have this kind of hostage diplomacy,” Waltz adds.

Former PA minister: 1st stage of hostage deal would free 25 Israelis in exchange for 1,248 Palestinian prisoners
If he’s no longer in the government, how does he know?
The first stage of a potential hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas will entail the release of 25 Israeli hostages in exchange for 48 Palestinian security prisoners who were freed in the Shalit deal in 2011 and incarcerated again since, along with 200 prisoners serving life sentences, and another 1,000 detainees including women, children and wounded prisoners, according to a Palestinian prisoner advocacy group.

In a rare interview with Ramallah’s Maan news agency, Prisoners Club director Qadura Fares adds that all of the Palestinian prisoners would be allowed to return to their homes in East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank, except those serving life sentences, who would most likely be deported to either Qatar, Egypt or Turkey.

The former PA minister notes that this exception is necessary for the protection of the Palestinian prisoners against Israeli assassination attempts.

The Prisoners Club is a Palestinian organization that advocates on behalf of Palestinians in Israeli jails. While the organization used to be financially supported by the Palestinian Authority, Ramallah has reportedly ceased funding the body for at least five years.

Fares is also quoted by Maan as saying that Israel has been pushing for nine more hostages to be released in the first phase, including wounded IDF soldiers, in exchange for a yet-to-be-negotiated number of Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences.

The comments come amid reports of progress in ongoing talks in Doha to seal a hostage-ceasefire deal before US President-elect Donald Trump takes office next week.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a high-level Israeli delegation to Qatar last night to join the talks.

Posted by Fred 2025-01-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ]  Top
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#1 Israel and Hamas reach breakthrough in hostage, cease-fire negotiation talks


48hr 24hr 3 minute rule
Posted by Frank G 2025-01-13 10:23||   2025-01-13 10:23|| Front Page Top

#2 About the imminent deal:

Although a final deal has not yet been reached, a source involved in the negotiations told Reuters, “The next 24 hours will be pivotal to reaching the deal.”

The talks revolve in part around a list of more than 30 hostages Hamas has said it would be willing to finally release — without saying how many might be alive.

Hamas, meanwhile, promised the release of its own terrorists while confirming it expects a deal.

“We renew our pledge with our steadfast and patient people and with our heroic prisoners in the prisons, and we affirm that their freedom is near,” the terror group said, according to the Times of Israel.


Hamas razzle dazzle. Not saying upfront which are live and which dead has been a deal-breaker all along. Bibi only wants living hostages for the first round.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-01-13 11:27||   2025-01-13 11:27|| Front Page Top

#3 The Times of Israel reports that point thusly:

The officials say that the first stage of the potential deal would see Hamas releasing 33 “humanitarian” hostages — children, women, female soldiers, the elderly and the sick. The officials say that all of the 33 are officially considered by Israel to be alive, but that Jerusalem has not currently received any confirmation of their status.

Which raises the point, what will Israel do if some of them are dead?
Posted by trailing wife 2025-01-13 13:18||   2025-01-13 13:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Schrödinger's Hostages
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-01-13 15:41||   2025-01-13 15:41|| Front Page Top

#5 "all hell's breaking loose" is the USA's problem?
Posted by DooDahMan 2025-01-13 16:27||   2025-01-13 16:27|| Front Page Top

#6  "Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead!" - Seven American Hostages Still Held By Hamas
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-01-13 16:43||   2025-01-13 16:43|| Front Page Top

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