A new Egyptian proposal aimed at restoring 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
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
ceasefire deal won tentative support from the Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...terror group, sources told Rooters on Monday, though Israel said it had yet to receive the terms of the offer.
Under Cairo’s plan, Hamas would release five living hostages, including American-Israeli Edan Alexander, in return for Israel allowing humanitarian aid
into the Gaza Strip and implementing a weeks-long pause in the fighting, an Egyptian official said.After the first week, Israel would implement the second phase of the collapsed ceasefire agreement.
Israel would also release hundreds of Paleostinian prisoners.
Egypt presented the proposal last week, security sources said Monday, with a Hamas official saying that the terror group has "responded positively" to the idea.
The sources said that the plan also provides a timeline for the release of all 59 hostages in exchange for a timeline for a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, backed by US guarantees.
The security sources added that the US also agreed to Egypt’s plan, but an Israeli official told The Times of Israel on Monday, "We haven’t heard of any new proposal."
According to the Israeli official, Israel is still trying to get Hamas to agree to a US-backed proposal spearheaded by Trump’s special envoy to the Mideast, Steve Witkoff, which would not entail full Israeli withdrawal from the Strip.
The narrower "Witkoff proposal" rejected by Hamas thus far, would have seen the ceasefire extended through April 19 and have the terror group release five living hostages in exchange for a large number of Paleostinian security prisoners.
Israel said it accepted Witkoff’s proposal, but said it was seeking the release of 11 living hostages.
If Hamas does not agree to Israel’s terms, "we will keep increasing the pressure until Hamas breaks," the official said, threatening "a widespread ground campaign" in Gaza.
In mid-January, Israel and Hamas agreed to a hostage-ceasefire and prisoner-release deal that officially lasted 42 days and saw the terror group release 30 living hostages and the bodies of eight slain captives, while Israel released almost 2,000
The deal had originally envisioned a second phase that would see a permanent end to the war in exchange for the release of the remaining hostages and many more Paleostinian security prisoners.
Netanyahu ordered the resumption of fighting in Gaza last week, saying talks moving forward would be held under fire after Hamas rejected proposals to extend phase one of the ceasefire.
Hamas has insisted on sticking to the original terms of the deal, which was supposed to begin its second phase at the beginning of March.
For a month, though, Israel refused to enter talks on the specific terms of phase two, as the stage’s general framework requires it to fully withdraw from Gaza and agree to a permanent end of the war.
The terror group freed 105 civilians during a weeklong truce in late November 2023, and four hostages were released before that in the early weeks of the war.
In exchange, Israel has freed some 2,000 enjugged
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
Paleostinian terrorists, security prisoners, and Gazook terror suspects detained during the war.