On Thursday, November 9, 2023 at 6:02:16 PM UTC-8, NefeshBarYochai wrote:
> Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected an early deal for a
> five-day ceasefire with Hamas-led Palestinian resistance in Gaza in
> return for the release of some Israeli hostages, the Guardian reported
> on 9 November.
>
> According to sources familiar with the negotiations, the Israeli prime
> minister rejected the deal outright in early negotiations after Hamas
> carried out an unprecedented surprise attack into Israeli territory on
> 7 October. An estimated 1,400 Israelis were killed, including many
> killed by the Israeli military itself.
>
> Negotiations resumed after the launch of the Israeli ground offensive
> on Gaza on 27 October, but the Guardian reports that according to the
> same sources, “Netanyahu has continued to take a tough line on
> proposals involving ceasefires of different durations in exchange for
> a varying number of hostages.”
>
> The Israeli prime minister’s office did not respond to the Guardian
> for comment.
>
> An estimated 240 people were taken hostage after Hamas fighters and
> later Gazan civilians crossed the reinforced border fence separating
> the territory from Israeli settlements.
>
> Hamas leaders stated they wished to exchange the Israeli captives for
> the more then 5,000 Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli, including many
> held without charge, for as long as decades in some cases.
>
> Anger among the Israeli public towards Netanyahu is high following the
> 7 October Hamas attack, with many faulting him for the intelligence
> failures that made it possible.
>
> Many families of the captives are also angry, feeling that the prime
> minister and his government are not doing enough to bring the captives
> home.
>
> The Guardian reported previously that Israel’s influential finance
> minister and settler leader, Bezalel Smotrich, urged the Israeli army
> to “hit Hamas brutally and not take the matter of the captives into
> significant consideration” during a cabinet meeting late on 7 October
> as the Hamas attack was still under way.
>
> According to three sources familiar with the early talks, the original
> deal involved Hamas freeing children, women, elderly and sick people
> among the captives in exchange for a five-day ceasefire, but the
> Israeli government rejected the offer.
>
> “Each time a deal would go back to Bibi [Netanyahu] it would come back
> with tougher demands,” one source said.
>
> Israel then continued bombing Gaza from the air, and proceeded to
> launch the ground invasion, complicating efforts to free the captives
> further.
>
> On 4 November, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of
> Hamas said that more than 60 hostages were missing because of Israeli
> airstrikes on Gaza.
>
> Israeli bombing has killed more than 10,800 people in the past month
> and injured in excess of 25,000 more, according to Gaza’s health
> ministry. Abu Obeida, the spokesperson for Hamas’s militant wing, Izz
> ad-Din al-Qassam, has said that the group is unable to release more
> hostages amid the mounting attacks.
>
> https://new.thecradle.co/articles/netanyahu-rejected-early-deal-to-release-captives-sources

You can't deal with terrorists. They have to be wiped off the map for what they have done.
Gaza elected Hamas as their government. They are one and the same thing.
And they are lying about everything...