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Israel and Hamas agreed to a deal to halt fighting in Gaza and exchange Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, an official briefed on the deal told Reuters on Wednesday, opening the way to a possible end to a 15-month war that has upended the Middle East.

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[–] ZebulonP@lemmy.world 35 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Israeli "hostages" and Palestinian "prisoners". The writer's choice of words says a lot.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 16 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Every one in Palestine is an Israeli prisoner.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

One could argue everyone is Palestine is an Israeli hostage. If anyone seriously threatens Israels existence they will just start killing them even harder.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 9 hours ago

Well, the Palestinian prisoners are political prisoners in prison, so "prisoners" isn't wrong. But they are also hostages.

[–] MashedHobbits@lemy.lol -1 points 10 hours ago

Well it’s Reuters so pretty low quality garbage.

[–] nevaseerius@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 hours ago

37 hours from now, breaking news IDF tests new radiation beam weapon on group of gazan toddlers

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 4 points 7 hours ago

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office did not confirm the deal, saying the final details were still being sorted out.

From https://apnews.com/live/israel-hamas-ceasefire-updates

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 hours ago

Now that the American election is over and Israel got their guy in.

[–] slartibartfast@lemm.ee 8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

This is great news.

I can only hope Israel keeps its side of the deal and doesn’t continue to terrorise Palestine.

Now all that’s left is to sanction Israel, disband its terror network/“military”, arrest its leadership, and put it under international control ensure they can never commit genocide again.

[–] BruceAlrighty@lemmy.nz 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Read this earlier, so it’s hopeful they we’ll see some justice.

[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 9 hours ago

again, Reuters, this was not a war.

[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 hours ago

Hmm...

I see only three broad possibilities here:

  1. The whole thing is bullshit and there is no deal. That wouldn't be the first time that happened - it'd just mean that the torch has been passed so that it's the Trump administration bullshitting instead of the Biden administration.

  2. There is a deal and it's relatively fair, and recognizes Palestinian sovereignty, in which case Netanyahu will, as he's already done in the past, sabotage it.

  3. The deal is a long-term con job by which Israel will retain enough control over Gazan territory to continue to oppress the people, and to support a West Bank style piecemeal conquest, which will generate enough opposition to not only colorably justify IDF depradations, but will provide enough support for Hamas to keep its not-coincidentally ex-pat leaders living in wealth and comfort.