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2025-03-05 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli FM Gideon Sa’ar says Israel’s conditions for proceeding to stage two of the ceasefire are Gaza’s full demilitarisation and the return of captives
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The Times of Israel adds:
[IsraelTimes] Foreign Minister Sa’ar tells media Israel ready to move on to second stage of complex truce, but terror group must give up more captives; defends halting humanitarian aid

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said on Tuesday that Israel was ready to proceed to the second phase of 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...
ceasefire deal, as long as Hamas
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was ready to release more of the 59 hostages it is still holding.

Speaking to international press in Jerusalem, the foreign minister also said the Hamas terror group’s main source of funding is now humanitarian aid flowing into the Strip, defending Israel’s decision to halt the delivery of goods into the enclave.

"We are ready to continue to phase two, we will come with our positions which are probably different from the positions of Hamas," Sa’ar said. "But in order to extend the time of the framework, we need an agreement to release more hostages. ’No free meals’ is a very known principle."

The three-stage ceasefire agreement, reached last month, halted some 15 months of fighting triggered by the group’s October 7, 2023, invasion of Israel, when Hamas-led bandidos turbans killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.

The US, Egyptian and 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-mediated deal requires Hamas to release all its hostages, Israel to release thousands of Paleostinian security prisoners — including hundreds serving life sentences — and a halt to fighting in the Strip, followed by negotiations for a "sustainable calm" and IDF withdrawal from the enclave.

Dozens of hostages — alive and dead — were released in batches during the first phase, but the initial 42-day stage has expired and Hamas and Israel remain far apart on broader issues including the postwar governance of Gaza and the future of Hamas itself.

All remaining living hostages were due to be freed in a second phase of the ceasefire, but Hamas and Israel are deadlocked over how to extend the truce.

Israel announced on Sunday that it would halt the entry of aid into Gaza after negotiations over next steps in the fragile January 19 ceasefire hit an impasse.

Hamas says it wants to move ahead to the second phase negotiations that could open the way to a permanent end to the war with the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from the devastated Paleostinian enclave and a return of the remaining living hostages.

But Israel says hostages must be handed over for the truce to be extended, and backs a plan to extend the first stage of the ceasefire during the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan, which began on Saturday, until after the Jewish Passover holiday in April.

US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th and 47th President of the United States...
’s special Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff is due to visit the region in the next few days to discuss extending the ceasefire or moving ahead of phase two, the State Department said on Monday.

Sa’ar denied that Israel had breached the agreement by not moving ahead to stage two negotiations. He said there was "no automaticity" between the stages and he said Hamas had itself violated the agreement to allow aid into Gaza by seizing most of the supplies itself.

"Humanitarian aid became the number one source of income of Hamas in Gaza," Sa’ar said. "With that money they use for terror to restore their abilities and to get more young bandidos turbans into their organization."

Aid groups have said that looting and wrongful seizure of aid trucks into Gaza has been a major problem.

Sa’ar said Israel had allowed the aid into Gaza as a part of its responsibilities under the first phase of the ceasefire "as long as there was a commitment...to free our hostages."

After the first phase ended on Saturday, "we don’t have any commitment now to finance terror against ourselves," he said.

Sa’ar declined to comment on an Israeli media report that Israel had set a 10-day deadline to reach an agreement or resume fighting, but said: "If we want to do it, we will do it."
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