Of the over 130 remaining hostages, Hamas has murdered the majority of them and can't find 40 of them left alive for a hostage exchange. Based on this, I'm thinking any type of ceasefire deal is off. Hamas Admits It May Not Have Enough Living Hostages For Ceasefire Deal With Israel https://dailycaller.com/2024/04/11/...ving-hostages-for-ceasefire-deal-with-israel/ Hamas has made an admission that could destroy plans for a ceasefire deal with Israel, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The U.S., Israel and international negotiators have been trying to strike a temporary ceasefire deal with Hamas in exchange for the remaining hostages in Gaza, of which there are over 130, at least 36 of whom are dead, according to current Israeli estimates, as reported by the WSJ. The current deal on the table is for Hamas to free 40 civilian hostages in exchange for a six-week ceasefire and the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. But the terrorist group can’t guarantee that it has enough living civilian hostages to release to meet the terms of the deal, according to the WSJ. Hamas may not be able to release 40 living hostages, but could do a deal with 40 hostages, a Hamas official told the WSJ, meaning they could be alive or dead in captivity. If Hamas can’t release the hostages requested, the ceasefire deal could fall through completely and the current war between the terrorist group and Israel could continue unabated. It also raises fears for the families of the hostages who have been urging the Israeli government to reach a deal so that their loved ones could be released. “It’s been six months since these people were taken into Gaza. These families have no second in the day or a second in the night that their minds are calm. They are in constant agony,” Ofer Merin, director-general at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem and a member of a forensic medical committee, told the WSJ. A workaround for the current ceasefire proposal could be for Hamas to release captured IDF soldiers along with however many civilian hostages Hamas can muster, according to the WSJ. Hamas is hesitant to do this because it wants much higher concessions for the soldiers than it does for civilian hostages. It is difficult to ascertain the current status of any of the remaining hostages. Hamas originally took over 240 hostages on Oct. 7, and over 100 of them have since been freed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), discovered to be dead or released as part of a previous week-long ceasefire deal in November. As of February, U.S. and Israeli officials believed that only roughly 80 of the 130 hostages remaining in Gaza were still alive, according to the WSJ. Many hostages previously believed to be alive died during the Hamas attacks against Israel, which killed roughly 1,200 people, and were taken back to Gaza. The Director of National Intelligence did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
US official estimates: Most of the Gaza hostages are not alive https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-796590
Top Biden Official Admits Famine Is Spreading in Gaza as US Continues Funding It The famine is “giving rise already to child deaths in the north,” the USAID chief said in a congressional hearing. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout Published April 11, 2024 https://truthout.org/articles/top-b...spreading-in-gaza-as-us-continues-funding-it/ Palestinian families, seeking refuge from Israeli attacks, try to feed their children by cooking the limited food they can barely afford at Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza on February 8, 2024. Dawoud Abo Alkas / Anadolu via Getty Images A top Biden administration official working on international affairs acknowledged on Wednesday that famine is unfolding in Gaza — the first time that a senior member of President Joe Biden’s government has recognized the consequences of Israel’s U.S.-backed starvation campaign in Gaza. In a hearing in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) head Samantha Power confirmed the findings of a recent internal USAID cable warning that famine had begun in northern Gaza. The cable warned that the famine and hunger in Gaza was “unprecedented in modern history” and is only slated to substantially worsen in coming weeks and months, HuffPost reported last week. Power said that USAID believes that the findings of a food crisis and widespread famine by the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) are “credible,” and that the agency generally finds IPC findings to be accurate. The IPC has found that famine is “imminent” or already happening for half of the population of Gaza, or 1.1 million people in the region, as Israel has maintained its blockade of food and destruction of bakeries. “So, famine is already occurring [in Gaza]?” Castro said. “That is — yes,” Power responded. “In northern Gaza, the rate of malnutrition prior to October 7 was almost zero, and now it is 1 in 3 kids,” she went on. “Food has not flowed in sufficient quantities to avoid this imminent famine in the south, and these conditions are giving rise, already, to child deaths in the north.” Power’s comments are significant as U.S. officials have fiercely downplayed or denied the atrocities that Israel has committed in Gaza over the past six months; on Tuesday, for instance, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that the U.S. doesn’t have “any evidence of genocide” in Gaza, even as droves of experts draw parallels between Gaza and historic massacres like the Rwandan genocide. Up until recently, the Biden administration was mum about Israel’s food blockade, despite the IPC warning of famine setting in for half of the population of Gaza in December; even after Biden began speaking out about the lack of humanitarian aid entering Gaza in recent weeks, he has refused to make policy changes that would force Israel to allow more aid in, like conditioning U.S. military aid. The U.S. has also defunded the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) — the primary aid agency for Palestinians in Gaza and beyond, without which aid groups have said it will be almost impossible to coordinate aid in Gaza. U.S. officials have repeatedly refused to acknowledge the tactics that Israeli forces have used to enforce starvation in Gaza, with officials downplaying the February “flour massacre,” in which Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinians hoping to access a rare shipment of food in northern Gaza, killing at least 104 people and injuring at least 750. Luring hungry Palestinians with food shipments and then killing them appears to be a tactic of the Israeli military. A report by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor published last week found that Israeli forces have killed at least 563 people and injured 1,523 who were waiting for or distributing aid in Gaza. “The use of starvation as a weapon has been an official political decision from the first day of the war, as declared by the Israeli Minister of Defense, and was implemented in integrated stages, which have included tightening the siege and closing the border crossings; preventing the entry of commercial goods; destroying all components of local production and food sources; increasing the Gaza Strip population’s reliance on humanitarian aid; and turning it into their main source of food,” Euro-Med found.
USAID Administrator Says Famine Has Likely Begun in Parts of Gaza By Ryan Morgan April 11, 2024 Israel–Hamas War https://www.ntd.com/usaid-administrator-says-famine-has-likely-begun-in-parts-of-gaza_985494.html Samantha Power testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 23, 2021 during her confirmation hearing to become the administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development. (Greg Nash/Pool/Getty Images) A state of famine has begun in northern Gaza, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power told lawmakers on Wednesday, adding to potential humanitarian consequences for the ongoing war there. In a prepared statement ahead of a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, Ms. Powers said nearly the entire population of the Gaza Strip “is living under the threat of famine.” Addressing Ms. Powers during the Wednesday hearing, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) noted a recent USAID communication to the White House National Security Council stating that not only is the Gaza Strip at risk of famine but that famine “is already likely occurring” in some areas. Ms. Power said that the USAID warning to the National Security Council was based on a March assessment conducted in accordance with the United Nation’s Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) methodology. When asked if she agreed with that IPC assessment, Ms. Powers said, “The methodology that the IPCC used is one that we had our experts scrub, it’s one that’s relied upon in other settings, and that is their assessment, and we believe that assessment is credible.” “So there’s—a famine is already occurring there?” Mr. Castro asked. “That is—yes,” Ms. Powers reiterated.......
America and your FUCKING CULTISH obsessions about wanting to feel safe. Teachers allowed to carry guns! Amid clamor from protesters, Tennessee Senate passes bill to arm some teachers By Marta W. Aldrich, Chalkbeat Tennessee | 9 hours ago https://jjie.org/2024/04/11/amid-cl...ssee-senate-passes-bill-to-arm-some-teachers/ Courtesy Carol Buckley Frazier. Spectators in the Tennessee Senate gallery, many of whom belong to gun control advocacy groups, hold signs to oppose a bill that would allow some teachers and staff to carry guns in public schools. The bill passed the Tennessee Senate 26-5 on Tuesday. Amid outbursts from gun control advocates in the spectator gallery, Tennessee’s GOP-dominated Senate passed a bill Tuesday to allow some teachers and staff to carry concealed handguns in public schools. The vote was 26-5 vote along partisan lines. Lt. Gov. Randy McNally ordered the gallery cleared of protesters after issuing several warnings before the vote, but many of them refused to leave, despite the urging of state troopers and warnings that they could be arrested. Some held up signs that said “We’re still here” and “1 year later, are kids safer?” referring to Nashville’s Covenant School shooting, in which an intruder killed three children and three adult staff members on March 27, 2023......
Irish premier Harris’s speech ‘absolutely clear’ despite Israeli criticism The Israeli government and Israel’s ambassador to Ireland condemned a short statement by Ireland’s new leader. Simon Harris speaking in the Dail (Maxwell Photography/PA) PA Media By Grinne N. Aodha 4 hours ago https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/israeli-hamas-gaza-fianna-fail-micheal-martin-b1150954.html Simon Harris’s comments about Gaza have been defended as “absolutely clear” after criticism from the Israeli government. Israel condemned a short statement made by Mr Harris in the minutes after he was voted in as Ireland’s next premier by a majority of parliamentarians on Tuesday. The Israeli government claimed “there are those in Ireland who persist on being on the wrong side of history”. “Simon Harris, the new Taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland, chose to refer to the war in Gaza in his inaugural address but ‘forgot’ to mention the 133 Israeli hostages who have been rotting in Hamas tunnels for the past six months,” a statement by the Israeli ministry of foreign affairs said. The Israeli ambassador to Ireland, Dana Erlich, claimed the Irish Government condemned the October 7 attack and called for the release of hostages, but “has scarcely condemned Hamas itself” in an Irish Times opinion piece published on Thursday. In his inaugural speech in the Dail on Tuesday, the Taoiseach said: “In Gaza, we are witnessing a humanitarian catastrophe and we are seeing innocent children, women and men being starved and slaughtered. “We have not been silent on the unforgivable terrorist actions of Hamas on October 7, nor can we be silent on the disproportionate reaction of the Israeli government, and as a country we will play our part in helping bring about ceasefire and a lasting peace.” Mr Harris added that he would deliver that message on behalf of the Irish people during meetings with EU leaders on Thursday. During a speech to his Fine Gael party at the weekend, Mr Harris also called for the “unconditional release of all hostages” and said “we unreservedly condemn the massacre carried out by Hamas”. Sean Fleming, junior minister at Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs, said Mr Harris was “absolutely clear” in his speech on Tuesday, and added that the Israeli government’s criticism of Ireland was because of Irish support for the Palestinians. I think everybody knows where Ireland stands, and that's probably why somebody went through a script to find some fault with it because the Israelis are not happy with the Irish position He added that Ireland’s deputy premier Micheal Martin had spoken “umpteen times” about the hostages taken by Hamas. “I think everybody knows where Ireland stands, and that’s probably why somebody went through a script to find some fault with it because the Israelis are not happy with the Irish position. “Because we’re very strong that we want a ceasefire and we want it immediately, we want food to go through, we want proper discussions in relation to Palestine being a separate state.” Ireland announced on Tuesday that it had begun discussions on recognising the state of Palestine, and Mr Harris is to meet Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in Dublin on Friday to discuss the issue. Mr Fleming said what Ireland says on the conflict is “being noted very carefully by the Israeli government”. “Ultimately, yes, we’re out on the front in the EU when it comes to attack by Israel, or insults or abuse, and that speaks for itself. “I think the Irish people will recognise, if we’re under attack and abuse from Israel, it’s because we’re very much on the side of the Palestinians, and they’re not happy with that.” He told RTE’s Drivetime programme that while Ireland is militarily neutral, he is not “politically neutral when I see a bomb dropping and children starving”. Mr Fleming added: “The words that were being used (by Israeli government representatives) was ‘total victory’, ‘destroy Hamas’ – that has not got anything to do with peace negotiations or a ceasefire. “Nobody is saying the Palestinian state will happen now, but discussions have to happen now and we have to prepare the ground. “The view from Israel is they will talk when they have destroyed Hamas and they have achieved total victory – that’s not the way this is going to play out in the long term.” On Thursday, one of Ireland’s three coalition parties, Fianna Fail, said it had not invited the Israeli or Russian ambassadors to its Ard Fheis conference in Dublin this weekend. “We do not believe it would be appropriate, given the war on the people in Gaza or the war in Ukraine. Fianna Fail has continuously condemned Hamas and its attack on the Israeli people on October 7,” a statement from the party said. “However, more than six months on, we truly believe that the ongoing response from Israel is completely disproportionate and the fact that aid is being held back while children and others die from famine cannot and will not be condoned.”
At this point, the families simply want to bodies of the hostages back. Hamas is unwilling to even offer this basic level of human decency. Families of dead American hostages plead for the return of their bodies: ‘We can’t even mourn’ https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/11/poli...rican-hostages-plead-return-bodies/index.html
Oh you want a return of hostages? Nobody is allowed into Gaza. If you were allowed in, bring your shovel and begin digging, that is if you're not shot in the back by the IDF beforehand. Revenge is more important than hostages.
The only logical conclusion I can come to over all this, US & Israel are seeking a war with Iran by dragging them in, in order to wipe out Iran's nuclear aspirations.