Initial reports from yesterday were that Hamas was going to release 14 hostages. Then Hamas could not locate the mother. Today they're changing their story that it was intentional. Hila has reported that she was being held with her mother up until two days ago.
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At first I thought this might be Israel making lots of noise over a potentially ambiguous translation: Lost as in "dead" vs. lost as in "someone who doesn't know where they are". The fragment "...who was lost has now been found..." makes it pretty clear the intent was very much the latter.
He'll probably claim that linguistic thing as spin, and then deflect any further criticism.
In a statement marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Sergio Mattarella said: "Dramatic news stories have shaken the country's conscience.
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Israeli media is reporting that Hamas is complaining about three things (N12, Times of Israel, Ynet):
- That not enough aid was transferred to Gaza City. Per Israeli reports, 50 of the 200 trucks that entered today were supposed to go to the northern part of Gaza.
- That the prisoners are not being released in the specific order that Hamas wanted them to be released (apparently they wanted it so the oldest are released first - although this may be by who had been in prison the longest)
- That the IDF is not allowing Gazans to return to the northern part of the Strip (reportedly, this was actually an explicit part of the deal).
Israeli media are also reporting that a Qatari delegation have arrived in Israel to help facilitate quicker communication with Hamas, and that Qatar has told Hamas to "stop playing games", and that Egypt is also demanding they begin releasing hostages within the next hour. Israel has publicly announced they will resume the military campaign at midnight if the hostages haven't been released.
Al Jazeera for their part are reporting basically the same, with some analysis that Hamas are "trying to reach a parity with Israel".
UPDATE while writing this: while sourcing all these links and translating stuff, apparently the whole thing is now solved and the hostages are expected to be released in the next hour - 13 Israeli citizens and 7 foreigners.
Ideally? Back in 2010 when BP made it clear they were systemically hiding critical safety and environmental control failures.
For comparison, this is less than 1% of the deepwater horizon spill, and they've turned off the entire pipeline so there's little danger of it increasing in size.
Their 2017 Charter in English, translated and published by Hamas.
Their 1988 Charter is far more violent and basically lays out plans for an Islamic State in the region.
You don't worry that limits you to stories that are already covered by your preferred news sources?
To be clear - I don't think you're headline shopping, but I think you might be missing out on coverage of topics - choice of coverage is an important part of media bias.
Do you mean this part:
- Hamas believes that no part of the land of Palestine shall be compromised or conceded, irrespective of the causes, the circumstances and the pressures and no matter how long the occupation lasts. Hamas rejects any alternative to the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.
Or perhaps this part:
- Resisting the occupation with all means and methods is a legitimate right guaranteed by divine laws and by international norms and laws. At the heart of these lies armed resistance, which is regarded as the strategic choice for protecting the principles and the rights of the Palestinian people.
Oh wait, there's more:
- A real state of Palestine is a state that has been liberated. There is no alternative to a fully sovereign Palestinian State on the entire national Palestinian soil, with Jerusalem as its capital.
They define "Palestinian soil" earlier:
- Palestine, which extends from the River Jordan in the east to the Mediterranean in the west and from Ras Al-Naqurah in the north to Umm Al-Rashrash in the south, is an integral territorial unit. It is the land and the home of the Palestinian people. The expulsion and banishment of the Palestinian people from their land and the establishment of the Zionist entity therein do not annul the right of the Palestinian people to their entire land and do not entrench any rights therein for the usurping Zionist entity.
They have only 1 segment that even hints that they might accept a 2 state solution:
However, without compromising its rejection of the Zionist entity and without relinquishing any Palestinian rights, Hamas considers the establishment of a fully sovereign and independent Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital along the lines of the 4th of June 1967, with the return of the refugees and the displaced to their homes from which they were expelled, to be a formula of national consensus.
Which is pretty hard to take at face as an acceptance of a two state solution when it literally says in the sentence before that that they reject any alternative other than "from the river to the sea" and in the sentence after completely reject the Oslo accords.
So you pick a random news site and read all their articles or do you search for additional coverage after seeing it on somewhere else?
At least now they admit it happened. Now to convince them that maybe intentionally targeting civilians, raping, and kidnapping people isn't a good thing that should be celebrated.
Fat chance that will happen with the PLO as it is now. They figured out a long time ago that they get rich from not signing peace deals.