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Hamas not responding to attempts to get hostage negotiations back on track

www.cnn.com Hamas not responding to attempts to get hostage negotiations back on track | CNN Politics

Hamas has been unresponsive to overtures made in recent days to try to restart hostage negotiations, a source familiar with the efforts told CNN, as the US and other mediators try to resurrect talks that would see more hostages who were abducted on October 7 be released from capt...

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At the same time Israel was releasing Palestinian "prisoners" (largely children and largely imprisoned for petty crimes like throwing stones) they were capturing and imprisoning from the West Bank (where there is no Hamas) roughly the same number of people as they were releasing in Gaza.
- Throwing a stone is not a petty crime, it's called assault with a deadly weapon
  
  If you’re a crowd who throws 100 of them, perhaps. Not one little boy, throwing a single stone. Don’t be ridiculous.
  
  What do you call killing thousands of children?
  
  Arresting kids for throwing rocks is petty enough as it. Labeling their actions as assault with a deadly weapon before you arrest them is just absurd.
Gee do you think bombing hospitals and schools could have something to do with it?
- one side does something wrong
  
  other side bad!
- You mean the places surrounded by underground tunnels?
  
  Has there ever been evidence of the tunnels?
  
  I know IDF put out some pictures of a standard underground water tank, and a basement that Israel built when they were running the hospital...
  
  But I've never seen actual evidence of "terrorist tunnels" the IDF claims is everywhere.
Why would they? Almost 20.000 Palestinians have been killed.
- Why would they?
  
  Indeed. They've already murdered them.
It can be hard to trust terrorists.
I'm not sure either roarty trusts the other enough for negotiations to be worthwhile. Not much point here.
It's almost like they don't want a ceasefire or peace 🤔.

There doesn't seem to be an end game for Hamas except dragging out the war in the most populous areas possible to maximise Palestinian casualties.

The poor Palestinians, the poor Israelis, poor hostages 😞.

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