Qatar says Gaza cease-fire will begin Friday morning, with aid to follow 'as soon as possible'

Let's hope this can lead to a lasting end to the violence from both sides. Too many innocents have lost their lives.

Better be hurry there are already, number of fatalities already over 11 thousands while injuries already over 27 thousands. Hopefully that aid can still save people in need.

https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-reported-impact-day-45

What kind of horror stories are the freed Israeli hostages about to tell?

Good, great opportunity for Hamas to regroup. Just brilliant.

The return of the hostages is most important for the Israeli people.

Let's hope this can lead to a lasting end to the violence from both sides. Too many innocents have lost their lives.

A few hours ago they bombed the UNRWA School in the Jabalia refugee camp and right now they're bombing the Indonesian hospital in Gaza. The genocide will continue until the last second before the "ceasefire" begins, it's a tradition in Israel.

The genocide will continue until the last second before the "ceasefire" begins, it's a tradition in Israel.

What genocidal regime agrees to a ceasefire?

If Israel was trying to genocide Palestinians why are they agreeing to a ceasefire?

Do you just use words without regard for their meaning because they sound good?

@jbone

the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.

"a campaign of genocide"

the only reason the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) are pausing is for the release of some of the hostages. Israel kidnappes Palestinians in the west bank at an alarming rate and have thousands held as hostages without trial. Look it up if you dare.

A lot of very wrong and dangerous precedents are being set here.

The cease fire will begin Friday morning. Israel will attack again before lunchtime. "There were some terrorists hiding in that hospital. I swear.!"

the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.

There is no deliberate killing of a large number of people. If they wanted to deliberately kill large numbers of people they wouldn’t be issuing evacuation orders or having ceasefires. Israel has the capability to completely wipe Gaza off the map and they haven’t.

the only reason the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) are pausing is for the release of some of the hostages.

So according to you, they want to genocide the Palestinians but are also agreeing to a ceasefire and are going to allow in aid to the people they want to genocide? Did you even read what you posted?

Israel kidnappes Palestinians in the west bank at an alarming rate and have thousands held as hostages without trial. Look it up if you dare.

Kidnapping and arresting are completely different things. I’d totally expect anyone involved in acts that threaten the security of Israel to be arrested. Are you saying that Israel kidnaps completely innocent people en masse?

Israel has lost the PR war and is fast losing the rubber stamp for its genocidal attacks on a people in prison camps it created!

The world has woken up to the lies that the Israelis have been spouting for the past 50 years and only a two state solution back to 1948 borders will suffice!

If Israel was trying to genocide Palestinians why are they agreeing to a ceasefire?

Because international sentiment towards Israel is sliding in to the gutter.

only a two state solution back to 1948 borders will suffice!

Never going to happen. This is literally a fantasy and you’d be better off wishing God himself comes down and solves the problem

There were some terrorists hiding in that hospital

Are you saying that Hamas doesn’t use hospitals? Even Amnesty International conceded they use them.

Because international sentiment towards Israel is sliding in to the gutter.

So they’re not genocidal then. Got it

So they’re not genocidal then. Got it

Not really sure what your argument is here. If Israel continues at this same rate of destruction they are going to lose the support of their allies. Even the US and Europe can only tolerate so much innocent blood spilled. A genocide doesn't have to be going on 24/7 to be considered a genocide, nor does it require the oppressive force to use the full extent of their arsenal.

Even if the ceasefire becomes permanent, which I hope that it does, it doesnt mean that a genocide has not already been committed. The actions taken by the IDF as well as the genocidal rhetoric heard from Israels political elite, including Netanyahu himself, build a strong case that the campaign in Gaza has been executed with genocidal intent.

Not really sure what your argument is here. If Israel continues at this same rate of destruction they are going to lose the support of their allies.

If Israel is able to be manipulated into lowering the amount of force they project, then they aren’t genocidal. You can’t be genocidal if you aren’t attacking at the force required to genocide. It’s not difficult to understand

Even if the ceasefire becomes permanent, which I hope that it does, it doesnt mean that a genocide has not already been committed. The actions taken by the IDF as well as the genocidal rhetoric heard from Israels political elite, including Netanyahu himself, build a strong case that the campaign in Gaza has been executed with genocidal intent.

There’s no case or evidence that what Israel has done could be considered genocidal and no reputable nation, or institution would ever side with such a ruling.

There’s no case or evidence that what Israel has done could be considered genocidal and no reputable nation, or institution would ever side with such a ruling.

Netanyahu - "You must remember what Amalek has done to you”

Yoav Gallant - “Gaza will not return to what it was before. We will eliminate everything”

Isaac Herzog -  “It is an entire nation who are responsible. This rhetoric about civilians supposedly not being involved is absolutely untrue. We will fight until we break their backs”

Bezalel Smotrich - “Voluntary immigration of Gaza Arabs to the countries of the world. This is the right humanitarian solution for the residents of Gaza.”

Avi Dichter - “We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba.”

I wonder at the horrors that the women kidnapped by Hamas had to endure. So many of the deceased on October 7 showed signs of the most vicious and savage sexual assault imaginable. Truly Hamas are animals and deserve to be wiped out.

The war erupted when several thousand Hamas militants stormed into southern Israel, killing at least 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking scores of hostages, including babies, women and older adults, as well as soldiers, for whom Hamas is expected to demand a large number of high-profile prisoners.

This account, more sober than the lurid atrocity stories that have been circulating as propaganda for the last 7 weeks giving Netanyahu cover for the military failures of the IDF and an excuse to launch a slaughter of civilians with a savagery worthy of King Herod to assuage the public thirst for revenge, reflects the evidence leaking out that the Hamas attack was a devised as a military operation. The IDF's poor performance and their response using heavy armaments, tanks, Apache helicopters with Hellfire rockets can better explain the high number of deaths as the truth trickles out with SM heading MSM propaganda and lies off at the pass with detailed analyses of what happened on Oct 7. Unfortunately for "King Bibi", this massacre of innocents has been witnessed by hundreds of millions of outraged human beings around the world and is beginning to take its toll on Israeli Holocaust "credit" and the credibility of the IDF. As a result, the blowback is fast eroding public support for Western politicians who stand behind all this bloodshed in Gaza. We know who owns Israel and one phone call from Washington to Jerusalem could turn the Israelis into "a whiter shade of pale". The killing window for the IDF is thus now fast closing and they will have no choice but to cry uncle and sit down for a final solution. We are all sick and tired of the last 75 yrs of needless bloodletting.

We are all sick and tired of the last 75 yrs of needless bloodletting.

Amen

We are all sick and tired of the last 75 yrs of needless bloodletting.

Amen

Second that.

Good, great opportunity for Hamas to regroup. Just brilliant.

You've been humming and hawing about the hostages for ages. Finally there is a humanitarian ceasefire AND a release of hostages and you want to complain?

BTW u_s__reamer

Excellent post!

Netanyahu - "You must remember what Amalek has done to you”

Not a call for genocide

Yoav Gallant - “Gaza will not return to what it was before. We will eliminate everything”

This isn’t a state sponsored call to genocide. One politician doesn’t equate the entirety of Israeli foreign policy. If we’re going by what specific political leaders say then Hamas is far more genocidal than Israel as the majority of their leaders have called for the destruction of Israel.

Isaac Herzog -  “It is an entire nation who are responsible. This rhetoric about civilians supposedly not being involved is absolutely untrue. We will fight until we break their backs”

This isn’t a call to genocide, and he’s right. The majority of civilians in Gaza have been polled as supporting Hamas and 63% are reported to have positive feelings about the 10/7 attacks

Bezalel Smotrich - “Voluntary immigration of Gaza Arabs to the countries of the world. This is the right humanitarian solution for the residents of Gaza.”

Not a call for genocide and again the opinion of one individual. The idea that everyone should Israel is an idea echoed by Hamas at a much larger scale

Avi Dichter - “We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba.”

Convenient of you to leave out the rest of the quote, you know how he’s talking about trying to get civilians out of Gaza so Israel can wage war against Hamas

Hamas is a terrorist organization. The fact that this post will receive more downvotes than upvotes is testament to how unhinged people on this site are

Hamas is a terrorist organization

One mans terrorist...

JboneInTheZoneToday 10:30 am JST

Hamas is a terrorist organization. The fact that this post will receive more downvotes than upvotes is testament to how unhinged people on this site are

Pot meet kettle....

Netanyahu - "You must remember what Amalek has done to you”

Not a call for genocide

Maybe not for some, but Americans know a dog-whistle when they hear one and, given the transparent Israeli contempt for their Arab neighbors as having lives of lesser worth, the killing of 25,000 civilians in 2 months reeks of ethnic cleansing, the stage of slaughter before full-blown genocide.

Hamas is a terrorist organization. 

No, it's not, just because America says so. Hamas is the resistance movement of the Palestinian people of Gaza that international law, not Joe Biden, recognizes as having the right to take up arms against an occupying force (spelt IDF). This inconvenient fact maybe news to many, but not to those cognizant of international law.

the killing of 25,000 civilians in 2 months reeks of ethnic cleansing

You have no way of knowing those are purely civilian deaths. The Palestinian authority doesn’t report combatant deaths and only reports them among civilian casualties

No, it's not, just because America says so. Hamas is the resistance movement of the Palestinian people of Gaza that international law, not Joe Biden, recognizes as having the right to take up arms against an occupying force (spelt IDF). This inconvenient fact maybe news to many, but not to those cognizant of international law.

This is such a cope. Pretty much ever first world nation disagrees with you. Numerous other countries and international entities rightfully have designated Hamas as a terrorist organization, including Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Israel, the Organization of American States, Paraguay, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

One mans terrorist...

If Hamas killing civilians is justified then you should have no problem with Israel killing civilians. You’re only issue with it is that Hamas is losing

Israel can wipe out Hamas but they have nothing to put in its place.

Hamas killing civilians is justified then you should have no problem with Israel killing civilians.

That makes both sides terrorists, it seems to me...

You've been humming and hawing about the hostages for ages. Finally there is a humanitarian ceasefire AND a release of hostages and you want to complain?

I want nothing more than to see the hostages released, but a ceasefire? Sorry, I think it’s wrong, but for Hamas it’s a brilliant move and thanks also should go to our president for pushing the Israelis to capitulate to the enemy. Smh..

Politically the hostages have become Netanyahu's number one priority. People already blame him for the Hamas attacks. He will pay a price further down the road.

Without a ceasefire, it would not be safe to bring the hostages out.

Whenever there's an exchange of prisoners there's always a ceasefire to ensure their safety.

Agree that 75 years of violence has been unnecessary. In 1948, the Arabs and Jews both put their cases before the UN. The UN decided a partition plan to make 2 states. The Jews agreed. The Arabs attacked. Five countries attacked Israel in an actual attempt at genocide. And they havent stopped since.

And Hamas is not a terrorist organization because the USA says so. It is a terrorist organization because it attacks civilians with rockets designed to maximize civilian casualties. Because it not only accepts the brutal mass rape of innocent women, it applauds it and shows it on social media. Because it condones the torture and murder of children. THAT is why Hamas is a terrorist organization.

Without a ceasefire, it would not be safe to bring the hostages out.

I think all of us know what a ceasefire is and how it works

I want nothing more than to see the hostages released, but a ceasefire?

Yes. That's the only way. Getting them released without a ceasefire is unrealistic.

Sorry, I think it’s wrong,

You are entitled to your opinion, but I have to disagree.

but for Hamas it’s a brilliant move and thanks also should go to our president for pushing the Israelis to capitulate to the enemy. Smh..

the idea that the Israelis are capitulating to Hamas is laughable. The ceasefire is there to get the hostages out and to provide aid to the ravaged civilians in Gaza. Anyone with a speck of humanity would support that.

And Hamas is not a terrorist organization because the USA says so.

It absolutely is a terrorist organization, whether the US says so or not, but it is the US that in part supplies Israel with a lot of weapons they need to get the job done to fight these murderers.

Our President ????? you mean the USA President. Thanks for what ? fuelling the genocide of Gaza. Your President is being lead by the Jew lobby. These two, death walking and death by all means had nothing to do with the cease fire. The jew occupliers will be made to succumb to international pressure and made to except a deal which mean no more Israel. to become the nation of Palestine. A bicultural nation of Arabs and non Arabs. The jew control over Palestine will end. Hoo Hah Hamas Hoo Hah Hezbollah.

I am absolutely astonished at the complete silence of western 'feminist' groups at the atrocities committed on Israeli women on October 7. The documented accounts of torture, assault, murder, humiliation, are incontravertable. Yet....nothing. These people have no idea what their lives would be like if they had to live under Hamas rule.

Yes. That's the only way. Getting them released without a ceasefire is unrealistic. 

I think it is a mistake to capitulate like this, I hope Hamas hurries so that Israel can get back to doing what their mission is, and that is to put the lights out on Hamas.

You are entitled to your opinion, but I have to disagree. 

Well, we shall both disagree with one another

the idea that the Israelis are capitulating to Hamas is laughable.

To the left, supporters of Hamas and unrealists, that might be the case.

The ceasefire is there to get the hostages out and to provide aid to the ravaged civilians in Gaza.

And give time for Hamas to regroup and refortify their positions to do a counterstrike.

Anyone with a speck of humanity would support that.

You can still be humane and disagree with this ceasefire, I sure do.

If Hamas killing civilians is justified then you should have no problem with Israel killing civilians.

The killing of innocent civilians is never justifiable, under any circumstances. However, whereas one person may view Hamas as a terrorist organisation, another person may see them as freedom fighters lashing out against their oppressors.

You’re only issue with it is that Hamas is losing

Is Hamas losing? Support for their cause has never been stronger, and they are clearly winning the PR war against Israel.

I think it is a mistake to capitulate like this, I hope Hamas hurries so that Israel can get back to doing what their mission is, and that is to put the lights out on Hamas.

you mean killing innocent civilians.

Well, we shall both disagree with one another

We always do

To the left, supporters of Hamas and unrealists, that might be the case.

To any rational person- which pretty much excludes the right.

You can still be humane and disagree with this ceasefire

Disagree. Again

And Hamas is not a terrorist organization because the USA says so. It is a terrorist organization because it attacks civilians with rockets designed to maximize civilian casualties

So... Israel IS a terrorist state. Thank you. I love it when we get one of these posts.

 IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari - “the emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy”.

And Hamas is not a terrorist organization because the USA says so. It is a terrorist organization because it attacks civilians with rockets designed to maximize civilian casualties

So... Israel IS a terrorist state. Thank you. I love it when we get one of these posts.

 IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari - “the emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy”.

Exactly! Well said!

Chabbawanga don't forget one of the other critieria:

Because it condones the torture and murder of children.

Which is what Israel AND its supporters are doing, Makes them all terrorists then

some posters don’t understand the necessity of a ceasefire.

some posters don’t understand the necessity of a ceasefire.

No kidding!

The killing of innocent civilians is never justifiable, under any circumstances.

Never, nor is kidnapping and beheading babies as well, but it happens, sadly.

However, whereas one person may view Hamas as a terrorist organisation, another person may see them as freedom fighters lashing out against their oppressors. 

And this is why Israel shouldn't give one iota of attention to what the UN or anyone says, because if these countries can't see Hamas for what it is, then there is no need for them, I mean, it's not as if the UN is some effective organization that any viable validity whatsoever?

Is Hamas losing?

Their lives, absolutely

Support for their cause has never been stronger, and they are clearly winning the PR war against Israel.

PR is different from the actual war, and won't save the Hamas fighters.

ChabbawangaToday  01:15 pm JST

If Hamas killing civilians is justified then you should have no problem with Israel killing civilians.

The killing of innocent civilians is never justifiable, under any circumstances. However, whereas one person may view Hamas as a terrorist organisation, another person may see them as freedom fighters lashing out against their oppressors.

Freedom fighters don't generally engage in rape and burning to death babies, at least if they want to remain credible.

you mean killing innocent civilians. 

People die in wars, that is why we shouldn't have them. Hamas should have thought about that on Oct. 6 deeply for a moment.

We always do

Yes

To any rational person- which pretty much excludes the right. 

Or the left more accurately

Disagree. Again

Well, we both disagree again

People die in wars, that is why we shouldn't have them. Hamas should have thought about that on Oct. 6 deeply for a moment.

Or maybe Israel shouldn't have confined people in the largest open air prison. History didn't begin on Oct 7

To any rational person- which pretty much excludes the right. 

Or the left more accurately

No. the left has its problems, but its the right that has lost all sense of rationality. And morality.

Well, we both disagree again

We always do

I am absolutely astonished at the complete silence of western 'feminist' groups at the atrocities committed on Israeli women on October 7. The documented accounts of torture, assault, murder, humiliation, are incontravertable. Yet....nothing. These people have no idea what their lives would be like if they had to live under Hamas rule

Yes, some of us have read or listened to Douglas Murray. I’m surprised you didn’t mention his refrain about the treatment of LGBT people. Have you used that one before?

He does make some good points, but if I understand your post, you are astonished at the silence of western feminists and then go on to claim they have no idea what life would be like under Hamas.

If they were chanting ‘feminists for Hamas’ your point would maybe begin to make some sense.