Hamas rejects Israel's ceasefire response, sticks to main demands

Why does the article call the people held by Israel "prisoners", but the people held by Palestine "hostages"?

I mean, having a hostage generally implies your intent is to hold that person captive in exchange for a demand being fulfilled, after which point you at least claim that you will release them. Presumably, Israel doesnt intend or claim that it will release those it has imprisoned even if it gets what it wants, so calling them hostages wouldnt really be accurate. One could call the people held by Hamas prisoners too I suppose, since that just implies them to be held against their will, but as they are explicitly being held in order to be used as a bargaining chip, calling them hostages adds more information about the situation than just calling them prisoners too would.
- Palestinians are often "arrested" on dubious grounds and held without trial
  They are given no legal representation and often tortured
  Not much to add here, except that proper medical treatment is one hell of a lot harder in a place that's actively being bombed
  There's no attempt at habilitation being made towards Palestinian prisoners. They're not even given a due process.
  source for the first two
  another source, pre-Oct7
  another source about the torture
  So, how are they not hostages?
- The Israeli prisoners were detained and arrested.
  The Israelis held by Hamas have been given many more rights than the average Palestinian prisoner.
  This is an outright lie, Palestinians are being amputated because of zipties to their limbs
  Again, Israel has no interest in "rehabilitating" its hostages, whereas Hamas is specifically offering to release theirs.
  At worst this is hostages on both sides. Your assessment only proves how much more hospitable Hamas have been to its captives than Israel, even at a time of war and famine brought on by Israel's onslaught.
To paint one side as legitimate and the other as not

"We.. reaffirm our adherence to our demands and the national demands of our people; with a permanent ceasefire, the withdrawal of the occupation army from the entire Gaza Strip, the return of the displaced to their areas and places of residence, intensification of the entry of relief and aid, and the start of reconstruction," the Islamist faction said.

Not a single one of those seems unreasonable in the slightest and I can't see why any of them should be withdrawn.

Israel didn't offer a ceasefire. They offered a pause.

Reuters still pushing Zionist propaganda 6 months in. Sad to see.

We all know israel is the only party rejecting an actual permanent ceasefire.

Agreed. Israel is going to the meetings but their proposals amount to "give us back the Israeli hostages, we'll give you a few hundred of the thousands of Palestinians we're imprisoning, and then we'll go back to killing you mmkay?" Even their ceasefire proposals are a) temporary and b) don't stop the terrible conditions of apartheid/hostile occupation the Palestinians were living in for decades before Oct. 7th.
Netanyahu has made it clear he will keep on killing Palestinians until Hamas is eliminated aka for as long as it serves his purposes. Don't forget Netanyahu's administrations are the whole reason Hamas was put in and kept power in the first place.
Wars generally end when one side surrenders.
Neither Israel nor Hamas wants to surrender, so there is no reason to expect a "permanent ceasefire".
- There have been multiple previous wars between Hamas and israel, and other parties like Lebanon, and it usually ends in a ceasefire.
  Israel saying they want keep committing Genocide after a 6 week break and then occupy Gaza isn't exactly a great deal.
- A lot of wars have ended in a stalemate.
  And if Israel is just stopping the onslaught in Gaza it is not a surrender. They wouldn't have given up anything.
Don't defend Hamas. They are a pure unadulterated terrorist group who would torture you to death because you aren't a pure Muslim.
- Since you’re writing uneducated nonsense and I’ll just bluntly assume you’re an Israel supporter. Here’s a copy-paste of my previous comments.
  Israel became an actual state in 1948 by displacing 750 000 Palestinian people and murdering many (men, women and children). Laying sieges, bombarding villages and population centers, setting fires to homes, properties and goods. Planting mines among the rubble to prevent any of the expelled people from returning (source: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by ilan Pappé).
  Now Hamas did not exist until 1987, they became an actual group only in 1987 because of all the actions Israel had done from 1948 up until 1987. Which is approximately 39-40 years after what Israel had done to the Palestinian people.
  From this we can conclude that Hamas did not start this but Israel did and that Hamas is fighting back.
  Israel is currently doing:
  Stealing land
  Ethnic cleansing
  Genocide
  Calling Palestinians rats, animals and more cruel things
  Wanting to erase the entire Palestinian race
  Lying to the world
  They think they are “superior” than Palestinian people
  They think and say that Palestinian people are, the “inferior” race
  Apartheid
  Sent Palestinian people jail/ prison for no reason (even kids)
  Beat Palestinian people for no reason or provoke to “get a reason”
  Who’s the actual terrorist here?
  I condemn both Israel and Hamas but if Israel had not stolen the land and murdered people from 1948 up until now. They (Hamas) would not even exist today. Hamas has become so violent, hateful and such because the world is just watching and doing nothing while Palestinians are getting murdered and humiliated on a daily basis.
- Downvoted not because I defend Hamas (which is indeed awful) but because the premise of your post is a lazy, overused attempt to deflect criticism of Israeli crime. Where is the poster defending Hamas? Hamas isn't even mentioned. He's condemning Zionist propaganda and Israeli refusals to stop killing which is completely factual and an ethical stance. Take your strawman elsewhere.
- No stop this is a pro Iranian theocratic dictatorship community! Hamas are nice people that absolutely would never literally stone people to death for saying nice things about democracy or asking for elections.