{"id":98153,"date":"2023-11-30T01:01:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T07:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=98153"},"modified":"2023-11-30T01:01:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T07:01:45","slug":"98153","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=98153","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Hamas Shifting the Goalposts for Releasing Hostages<\/a><\/p>\n

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There is already talk of a second ceasefire once fighting in the Israel-Hamas war resumes. But goalpost shifting by Hamas means talks ahead of any upcoming hostage release deal will be more hotly contested than the last.<\/p>\n

The terror group is currently releasing just one of the 240 mostly Israeli hostages taken during its October 7th attacks for every three Palestinian prisoners set free by Israel. Over the course of the current ceasefire, which much of the West is\u00a0demanding<\/a>\u00a0be extended again, Hamas has mainly released young children and elderly women\u2014some of whom were\u00a0taunted<\/a>\u00a0by Gazans during their handover\u2014while Israel has released\u00a0prisoners<\/a>, many of whom it says are affiliated with Hamas and who, though not convicted, are alleged to have committed a range of offences.<\/p>\n

Thoughts are now beginning to extend to the possible release of Israeli men and soldiers\u2014both men and women\u2014held by Hamas, which has signalled that it will demand a higher \u2018price\u2019 for these captives.<\/p>\n

In 2006, Hamas released an abducted Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, who had been held for five years in exchange for more than 1,000\u2014one thousand<\/em><\/a>\u2014Palestinian prisoners. Retired U.S. Ambassador Dennis Jett\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0NPR that it \u201cwasn\u2019t lost on Hamas\u201d that such a steep price could be demanded of Israel again.<\/p>\n

Jerusalem may, however, be wary of such a controversial number, especially after one of the prisoners released in 2006, Yahya Sinwar, went on to lead Hamas in Gaza and to plan the October 7th terror attacks. For the same reason,\u00a0The Times<\/em>\u00a0has\u00a0suggested<\/a>\u00a0that \u201ceven Hamas might be discouraged from asking as high a price again, though its spokesmen have mentioned the Shalit deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

But before talks for the next ceasefire can begin, Israel is already being pressured by officials in the West to keep the existing one going longer. U.S. President Joe Biden\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday that \u201cto continue down the path of terror, violence, killing, and war is to give Hamas what they seek. We can\u2019t do that.\u201d His comments appeared to contradict the official U.S. stance that a prolonged ceasefire would mainly benefit Hamas, granting it enough time to regroup.<\/p>\n

President Biden\u2019s comments also came ahead of today\u2019s \u2018International Day of\u00a0Solidarity<\/a>\u00a0with the Palestinian People,\u2019 held annually, though this year piggybacked by Hamas. The terror group has called for global protests and \u201csolidarity marches,\u201d according to the German paper\u00a0J\u00fcdische Allgemeine<\/em><\/a>. The paper added that this poses particular threats for the West\u2019s Jewish communities which have already seen a massive increase in antisemitic incidents since October 7th.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Hamas Shifting the Goalposts for Releasing Hostages There is already talk of a second ceasefire once fighting in the Israel-Hamas war resumes. But goalpost shifting by Hamas means talks ahead of any upcoming hostage release deal will be more hotly contested than the last. The terror group is currently releasing just one of the 240 … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mendacity","category-moslems-jihadis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98154,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98153\/revisions\/98154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}