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2025-01-17 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Moscow lauds emerging Gaza deal, hopes Russian-Israeli hostage Sasha Trufanov will be among those
[IsraelTimes] Moscow expresses hope that Russian-Israeli Sasha Trufanov will be among those freed in an emerging hostage-ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas
..always the voice of sweet reason...
"We hope the agreement’s implementation will lead to long-term stability 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...
, allow displaced persons to return, and facilitate reconstruction of what was destroyed during the conflict," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova says in a statement.

"Additionally, we expect Israeli hostages and Paleostinian detainees exchanged under this accord to reunite with their families. It is our hope that Russian citizen Alexander Trufanov, presently in Gaza, will be among those freed."

Trufanov, 27, was among 251 Israelis taken hostage in Hamas’s brutal October 7, 2023 massacre. He was kidnapped along with three members of his family from Kibbutz Nir Oz. His mother Yelena Trufanova, 50, and her mother Irena Tati, 73, were released by Hamas on November 29 at Putin’s request. His girlfriend Sapir Cohen was among 105 hostages released in a week-long truce in November.

The Kremlin says it "welcomes" the deal, but also expresses a degree of caution after Israeli accusations that Hamas is backtracking on the fragile agreement.

"Any settlement that leads to a ceasefire, an end to the suffering of the people of Gaza and increases Israel’s security can only be welcomed," Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
’s front man Dmitry Peskov tells news hounds.

"But let’s wait for the finalization of the process."
Posted by trailing wife 2025-01-17 2025-01-17 02:52|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top
 File under: Hamas 

#1 Meanwhile, Russia and Iran just signed a “comprehensive strategic partnership treaty.”

I’m at the tire place, I can’t make the x link look pretty or anything now.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2025-01-17 14:22||   2025-01-17 14:22|| Front Page Top

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