BREAKING: Israel & Hamas agree to temporary ceasefire:
•4 day ceasefire
•Hamas to release 42 hostages — 30 children & 12 women
•Israel to release 150 Palestinian prisoners (Human rights orgs estimate ~1000 Palestinian children in Israeli prisons)
A good step. We need a permanent ceasefire, release of all hostages, an end to military occupation of Palestine, an end to all illegal settlements, & an end to illegal blockade of Gaza.
That ensures sustainable peace for Jewish & Palestinian civilians
It is a good step, however, you seem to have left out a line item regarding the future of Hamas, the party that broke the previous cease fire by slaughtering 1200 innocent people including many committed peace activists and vigorous opponets to the radical right-wing Netanyahu government.
[July 2014] Visualizing Palestine’s first ‘data sketch’ graphic charts the routine violations of the last Egyptian-brokered ceasefire from 22 November 2012 til 7 July 2014. While both the Israeli military and Palestinian factions violated the terms of the ceasefire, a close examination shows that Israeli violations were more frequent and far more deadly. Out of Israel’s 191 violations, 10% resulted in death and 42% in injuries or detentions; while out of the 75 Palestinian violations, just 4% resulted in injuries and none in death.
You cannot diminish the fact of Hamas' genocidal brutality intentionally and directly targeting civilians, killing parents in front of children, children in front of parents, gang rapping women before kidnapping, burning victims and gleefully recording and broadcasting all of it with things unrelated to be current fighting.
We could go backwards in time tit for tat for millenia and it would still do nothing to reduce the intentional horror of 10/7.
And we will not do it.
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
Grassroots Joe
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