Even if Hamas honors its word, which is not guaranteed at all, five days of ceasefire is a long time. Although the IDF chief of staff says he can manage the risk, no one, including him, knows exactly what the Hamas leader has up his sleeve.
Both sides would free women and children and details will be announced by Qatar, which is mediating in the negotiations, according to one Hamas official.
The foreign fans of Hamas are our enemies, the ideological enablers in the West of those who would go to any length to eradicate us from the Middle East. And, as such, they should be dead to us.
The floodgates of Jew hatred have now opened, courtesy of the United Nations, the same body created in the wake of the Holocaust, which has still been unable to condemn Hamas even once. This perversion of international law has now become official policy of the UN.
In a delicate process, the troops watch as throngs of Palestinians pass through the humanitarian corridor – all the while soldiers hope to extract Israeli hostages who may have been forced to blend in with the crowd. The residents who disavow the massacre carried out by Hamas on October 7 don’t dare to speak up. The few who do will just say something like “We don’t condone what happened.”
