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Hamas armed wing says it discussed freeing 70 hostages in return for 5-day truce

www.reuters.com

The armed wing of the Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Monday it told Qatari mediators the group was ready to release up to 70 women and children held in Gaza in return for a five-day truce with Israel.

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Headline is wrong. The article makes it clear that it’s in exchange for prisoners in Israeli jails PLUS a truce.
Last week there was an effort from the Qatari brothers to release the enemy captives from women and children, in return for the release of 200 Palestinian children and 75 women detained by the enemy" Abu Ubaida, the spokesman for the armed wing of Hamas, al-Qassam Brigades, said in an audio recording posted on the group's Telegram channel.
"The truce should include a complete ceasefire and allow aid and humanitarian relief everywhere in the Gaza Strip," he said.
- tbf, Israel releasing mammoth numbers of their prisoners for small numbers of their own citizens is pretty standard, and would probably be assumed by anyone well familiar with the history of the conflict.
  
  Israel's clearly taking this war in a different direction from usual, unfortunately — based on what they're saying at least, it seems the intent is to eradicate Hamas and deal with the consequences later
  
  “Anyone well familiar with the history of the conflict” doesn’t describe the vast majority of opinions I’ve found on the internet so I felt it was important to clarify since the headline is misleading at best.
  Secondly, I think the calculus has changed. Netanyahu used to have no problem propping up Hamas. So, sure, trade Yahya Sinwar and a thousand other prisoners for Gilad Shalit. In Netanyahu’s mind, that will only help destabilize the PA and allow him to keep building settlements in the West Bank. That strategy came home to roost on October 7.
  
  It makes sense if you look at the death toll.
  Israeli lives are just worth more than Palestinian's.
- If the mods were consistent they would have removed OP's post as per Rule 3.
All of Hamas is an "armed wing" the legitimate government is the Palestinian Authority...
Israel wants to act like Hamas is a democratically elected government to justify an all out "war".
The last time citizens of Gaza got to have an election, half the current residents weren't born yet, Hamas was the "moderate" option, and Hamas still didn't get a majority of votes.
Acting like Hamas is a real government is just some bullshit Israel says, because that helps Israel's rightwing extremists stay in office. Neither of those two want peace
- Hamas is a real government, and is in charge of Gaza — the PA is not in charge of Gaza. It is also a terrorist organisation, and is also basically not democratically elected. But the people of Gaza should not be held responsible for their government's folly and terrorism. But it is important to recognise that de facto Hamas is the government of Gaza.
  
  Hamas is a real government, and is in charge of Gaza
  What are they actually in charge of?
  They don't control utilities or emergency services, and I doubt they're doing schools either.
  It's not a government, because they don't do any of the duties are government is supposed to do.
- They are probably acting that way because they have a history of promoting Hamas. They helped find the start of it and Netanyahu pushed to strengthen it to weaken the PLO.
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/07/30/how-israel-helped-create-hamas/
  https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/
This is the best summary I could come up with:
CAIRO, Nov 13 (Reuters) - The armed wing of the Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Monday it told Qatari mediators the group was ready to release up to 70 women and children held in Gaza in return for a five-day truce with Israel.
"Last week there was an effort from the Qatari brothers to release the enemy captives from women and children, in return for the release of 200 Palestinian children and 75 women detained by the enemy" Abu Ubaida, the spokesman for the armed wing of Hamas, al-Qassam Brigades, said in an audio recording posted on the group's Telegram channel.
"The truce should include a complete ceasefire and allow aid and humanitarian relief everywhere in the Gaza Strip," he said.
He accused Israel of "procrastinating and evading" the price of the deal.
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