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US officials fear most of Hamas' hostages in Gaza are already dead, J’lem thinks Hamas expects Iran to attack
2024-04-12
Then why are they leaning so hard on Israel to negotiate with Hamas?
[NY Post] US intelligence officials estimate that most of the 133 hostages being held by Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, 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 an iron fist by Hamaswith 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...
are already dead, according to a new report.

While the Israel Defense Forces estimate that as many as 34 hostages have died — either during the initial Oct. 7 terror attack or in the past six months of captivity — some American officials believe the actual number is more than twice as high, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The officials, who are familiar with US and Israeli intelligence on the hostage situation, told the Journal that some of the dead hostages were likely killed by injuries, illnesses or by the IDF’s ongoing Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in Gaza.

TV report: Jerusalem thinks Sinwar delaying hostage deal response in hopes of Iranian attack on Israel

[IsraelTimes] Israel believes Hamas
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
’s 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 an 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...
chief Yahya Sinwar is delaying a response to the current hostage-truce proposal in the hope that Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
will attack Israel and help spark the wider conflict he sought to trigger on October 7, according to unnamed sources in Jerusalem quoted by Channel 12 news.

"Sinwar has not given up on his ambition to see a regional war, and he is pinning his hopes on an Iranian attack and an Israeli response, which could bring about a ’unification of the [various] fronts’ [against Israel]," the TV report quotes the sources saying.

A proposed deal said to be broadly accepted by Israel reportedly provides for the release of 40 living hostages in a "humanitarian category" — women, children, elderly and ill — in return for some 900 Paleostinian security prisoners during a 42-day truce.

Hamas officials have publicly said the terms are unacceptable and reiterated demands for an Israeli commitment to end the war and to allow northern Gazooks to return home, but have not issued a definitive rejection.

Related: Hamas official says it can’t locate hostages in Gaza without a ceasefire
Posted by:Fred

#4  Ref #2: Truth, it's why I've read the Burg for nearly 20 years.
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-04-12 06:40  

#3  US 'fears most of the Hamas hostages could be DEAD': Terrorist group may 'not have enough' of the 40 detainees needed in ceasefire talks, disturbing new reports say
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-04-12 05:29  

#2  

...most of the 133 hostages being held by Hamas are dead...

Once again Rantburger's beat the media and US Gov. to the punch. With many here having said as much months ago.
Posted by: NN2N1   2024-04-12 05:24  

#1  PJ - TRAGIC: I Was Right About the Hostages Being Dead
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-04-12 03:17  

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