Hamas says next hostages will be released on Saturday as scheduled

Kfir Bibas, a 9 months old baby, was kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 2023.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_the_Bibas_family

NB, this is a Save the Children report from last year that covers only the first 10 months of Israel's 15 month bombardment.

"About 30% of the 11,300 identified children killed in Gaza between last October and 31 August were younger than five, according to a newly published breakdown of the ages of about 34,000 people whose deaths have been verified by Gaza’s Ministry of Health. Of those about 710 were babies aged under 12 months. Another 2,800 children killed have yet to be identified."

What happened on Oct 7th was an atrocity. If you can't acknowledge that what Israel has done since then as an atrocity then I don't know what to say. 2 infants were killed on Oct 7th. Israel has now killed several hundred.

Israel has now shot dead 3 Palestinians since the ceasefire went into effect.

Capuchin,

The latest figure on total number killed during the October 7 massacre, based on social security data, is 1,175, of whom 379 were from Israeli security forces and 796 were civilians (725 Israeli and 71 foreign). 26.6% of those killed were female. Initially up to 1,400 people were reported killed; on November 10, this was revised to 1,200, before being revised further in December. The casualties included 36 children; the youngest person killed was 10 months old, and 25 were people over age 80. The massacre is considered the bloodiest day in Israel's history, and the deadliest for Jews since the Holocaust.

The Palestinians were killed as Israel was trying to fend off the massacre.

So, again, BOTH those the Scofflaw regime releases and those the Government of Gaza release are either 'hostages' or 'prisoners' because they all have being illegally detained, in violation of the fundamentals of a system based on internationally recognized law, or the person decided to use different terms is violating the fundamentals of journalism.

As for the person who ignores the Scofflaw regime's executions of journalists, doctors, aid workers, and the deliberate starving of babies until they succumb to come weather, a normal infection, or the injuries they suffer during a genocidal campaign of indiscriminate bombings and shootings, remember that the precedent has been established that if 'all' you do is post such things, you are still legally participating in the genocide. And you might want to take note that while in the immediate aftermath, the concentration is on the 'big fish' and the 'enthusiatic trigger pullers', decades from now, 'merely' participating in a genocide will still provoke revulsion and public outrage against YOU.

How many hostages will be released by Israel in exchange?

NB, do you use the same criteria for 'civilian' for both sides?

Is a Scofflaw fighter a 'civilian' a day after being a fighter, a year, a decade?

Is a fighter for the Palestinians of Gaza a 'civilian' ACCORDING TO YOU AND THOSE PROVIDING YOU THE THINGS you repeat after the same period?

Or do you subscribe to the notion that a Scofflaw fighter that is headed home to wash the figurative blood off his hands is a civilian, but someone who threw a stone as a 12 year old at the guy beating his mother is a fighter even as a 60 year old crossing the street?

Israel will break any agreement they want....Gods chosen people right. ?

Reading the history of this terror state from before 1948 reveals a people that cannot be relied on to keep any agreements....all is aimed at a "greater Israel "

How can anyone negotiate under these circumstances.

Which of the two nations is trying to commit genocide to the other since before 1948? Which of the two nations is rejecting the two-state solution (according to which one of the two states is mixeed)? Which of the two nations launched the 1948 war and launched a grand massacre in 2023? Which of the two nations perpetrates terrorism against the civilian population of the other nonstop? Which of the two nations scuttles every peace initiative? Which of the two nations adopts Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" warmly?

So, again, BOTH those the Scofflaw regime releases and those the Government of Gaza release are either 'hostages' or 'prisoners'

Richard, isn't there a difference, really, between prisoners and hostages? Are the notion of prisoner and the notion of hostage really overlapping? The following Wikipedia article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_kidnappings:_2020%E2%80%93present

Gives a List of kidnappings: 2020–present. Similar lists refer to earlier periods. Does the term "prisoner" befits those mentioned in the lists just as the term "hostage"?

Also, you do not recognize Israel, but you recognize the terrorist Hamas gang, which terrorizes the Gazans themselves, as "the Government of Gaza". Nice.

Hundreds of Israel IDF members should be held accountable for the mass killings of over 48.000 Palestinian people, most of which of innocent children and women, UN says.

And yet you can tell the economic interests are so huge in Wall Street for the US weapons manufactures. People still have the nerve to defend the acts of criminal Netanyahu. It is incredible really

All the blame for the redundant tragedy rests on the cannibalistic gang of Hamas, which launched a grand massacre in order to thwart the Saudi peace effort.