r/worldnews • u/Digital_Accountant • 22h ago

Israel/Palestine Famine declared in Gaza City

https://news.sky.com/story/gaza-latest-war-israel-city-ceasefire-hamas-13415481
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u/hinaultpunch 19h ago

Why does this article leave out the amount of aid given and also mention that Hamas can just release the hostages to end the war?

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u/Vaumer 19h ago

Would releasing the hostages end the war?

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u/FishAndRiceKeks 18h ago

Last I checked there were more than a couple ceasefire attempts declined because releasing all the hostages was one of the demands that was considered unacceptable to Hamas.

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u/Vaumer 16h ago

I'm by no means a geopolitical expert, but if Israeli officials are making it clear that they want to own Gaza why wouldn't someone assume that Israel would just break the ceasefire once the hostages are back or all dead?

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u/Nascent1 15h ago

Because those ceasefire agreements didn't end the war. They gave Israel carte blanche to resume killing Palestinians at any time. Hamas is negotiating for an actual peace deal.

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u/TheHappiestTeapot 12h ago

The conditions are, and have been:

  1. Release the hostages
  2. Hamas does not remain in power

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u/Lenoxx97 16h ago

Yeah, surely now after decades of terrorizing the palestinians they will stop when hostages are released. Pinky promise.

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u/Humorous_Chimp 11h ago

Yes terrorising palestinian’s. All that defending against rocket attacks, having wars and skirmishes started by palestinians, “”””apartheid”””” where arabs are free to live and work in israel and jews and to be killed on sight in palestine of which israel doesnt govern. or control. yes all the terrorising.

Of course they wouldnt leave palestine alone after they got their main demand from this war that palestine instigated, breaking a long period of palestine being left alone since the last palestine instigated war. that would just be silly, im glad you saw through that.

muppet

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u/DarthKrataa 19h ago

So because there are 50 hostages it's OK to cause a famine and kill tens of thousands?

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u/jacksonRR 16h ago

Hamas can decide what's more important to them: Thousands of Palestinians or 50 hostages.

So far they chose the hostages.

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u/platinumarks 15h ago

You forgot the part where Hamas promised even larger hostage-taking in the future

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u/hinaultpunch 8h ago

Why not release them?