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William Christou in Jerusalem Fri 3 Oct 2025 19.37 EDT

Donald Trump ordered Israel to “immediately” stop bombing Gaza as he welcomed Hamas’s partial acceptance of his ultimatum to end the nearly two-year war.

Hamas has agreed to release all hostages in return for Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, as well as surrender governing power in the Gaza Strip, in accordance with Trump’s plan.

In a statement on Friday evening, the Palestinian militant group asked for further negotiations on other parts of the plan, and did not say whether it would lay down its arms – a key part of Trump’s proposal unveiled on Monday.

Despite the qualified response by Hamas, Trump said in a post on Truth Social: “Based on the Statement just issued by Hamas, I believe they are ready for a lasting PEACE."

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 46 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Nice, they called Netanyahu's bluff. Now watch him torpedo his own peace proposal.

[–] sudo@programming.dev 18 points 4 days ago

Likely he will try to reneg on the deal.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 days ago

The USS Liberty incident was an attack on a United States Navy technical research ship (a spy ship), USS Liberty, by Israeli Air Force jet fighter aircraft and Israeli Navy motor torpedo boats, on 8 June 1967, during the Six-Day War.[2] The combined air and sea attack killed 34 crew members (naval officers, seamen, two marines, and one civilian NSA employee), wounded 171 crew members, and severely damaged the ship.[3] At the time, the ship was in international waters north of the Sinai Peninsula, about 25.5 nautical miles (47.2 km; 29.3 mi) northwest from the Egyptian city of Arish.[1][4]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Netanyahu can't end this war without going down in his corruption trial.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

That's the thing most people don't realize, even if you got lasting piece with Palestinians he will just start killing different Muslims to stay out of jail.

He needs constant state of emergency, much like Trump so normal laws won't catch up to them.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

StayFreeOfJail card.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Prisoners*

Hamas has prisoners, it's the propaganda that calls them hostages. If you want to call them hostages, you should call the prisoners that Israel has hostages as well.

[–] Severus_Snape@lemmy.world -4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Hamas has prisoners, it’s the propaganda that calls them hostages. If you want to call them hostages, you should call the prisoners that Israel has hostages as well.

Actually, propaganda is what you are doing.

A hostage is someone :

1. That isn't sentenced for anything.

2. That can not be precisely located anywhere.

3. That doesn't know if he will be released or killed by his captors.

For instance, Nelson Mandela wasn't a hostage. He was a prisoner.

(A political prisoner is still a prisoner)

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

This is his play for his vaunted Nobel Peace Prize. I don't think Bibi is gonna help him.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 days ago

"Trump orders"? So he could have ordered it at any time, then?