Gaza ceasefire imminent?

Submitted by Nastarana on Thu, 02/01/2024 - 3:53pm

RT is reporting, following AlJazeera, that Israel has accepted a ceasefire proposal worked out in Paris:

Israel has agreed to a ceasefire proposal that would halt its war with Hamas, Al Jazeera reported on Thursday, citing the Qatari Foreign Ministry. Hamas has reportedly given the plan a “positive” response.

The ceasefire plan was hashed out in Paris over the weekend, with Qatari and Egyptian diplomats mediating between Israel and the Palestinian militant group. Delegations from West Jerusalem and Gaza left the French capital promising to study the proposal and negotiate further this week, and by Thursday evening, a deal was apparently within reach.

“Israel agreed to the ceasefire proposal and we have initial positive confirmation from Hamas...

The Qataris are Hamas' paymasters. I suspect that the Israeli govt. has realized that a. Biden is going to lose, and b. American voters are beginning truly to hate AIPAC. There will be restrictions on immigration, legal or illegal from the new administration, whether the president is Trump, Haley or Kennedy. Kennedy is committed to scaling back American overseas commitments and a Republican president may have no choice but to do the same.

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Submitted by QMS on Thu, 02/01/2024 - 5:21pm

I hope your assessment is correct

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If the infamous Asian saying "saving face" has any bearing on decisions,
there are few options left for the war mongers to redeem themselves.

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Submitted by Nastarana on Thu, 02/01/2024 - 5:25pm

I wonder if IDF assassins pretending to be MDs

has finally been a last straw. Israel's "right to exist" cannot excuse this.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Thu, 02/01/2024 - 6:52pm

Qatar is not the only country that funds Hamas

Israel has also funded them and Bibi admitted it in 2019. He did it to screw the Palestinian authority. Of course the CIA also funds them.

https://www.rt.com/news/591674-israel-accepts-ceasefire-hamas/

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Submitted by The Liberal Moonbat on Fri, 02/02/2024 - 3:53am

Just like Jon Stewart predicted years ago...

@snoopydawg
...and has lived to see occur multiple times over:

We are fighting proxy-wars with ourselves.

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Submitted by The Liberal Moonbat on Fri, 02/02/2024 - 4:08am

Sources, please?

Here's what I could find on RT: https://www.rt.com/news/591674-israel-accepts-ceasefire-hamas/

Trouble is, I am having a much harder time finding anything in support of this from their stated source: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=al+jazeera+gaza+ceasefire&atb=v314-1&ia=web

A fresh article about Chicago making demands for a ceasefire (hardly the same), some stuff from a month ago, and stuff from years ago.

Is it my search-engine? The fact I only know English?

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Submitted by QMS on Fri, 02/02/2024 - 7:30am

I tried Yandex on this one

@The Liberal Moonbat

https://www.rt.com/news/591674-israel-accepts-ceasefire-hamas/?ysclid=ls...

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/02/02/719328/Gaza-death-toll-Israel-s...

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Submitted by Nastarana on Fri, 02/02/2024 - 10:12am

The RT article, on their virtual front page, was all I found.

@The Liberal Moonbat
that is why I placed a question mark in the thread title.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 02/02/2024 - 10:29am

I posted the link in the comment you responded to

@The Liberal Moonbat

It was easy to find since I had rt bookmarked.

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Submitted by Nastarana on Fri, 02/02/2024 - 10:37pm

Is this report for reals or fake news?

Nothing on either BBC or Asia Times.

I would not have expected fake news from RT.

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Submitted by humphrey on Fri, 02/02/2024 - 11:20pm

Well there is this.

@Nastarana

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/02/02/719328/Gaza-death-toll-Israel-s...

Scores of Palestinians have been killed in overnight Israeli aggression in the besieged Gaza Strip, after mediator Qatar said Tel Aviv had approved a proposal to pause its war on the besieged territory.

The health ministry in Gaza said 105 people were killed overnight from Thursday to Friday, as Israeli raids and shelling of Khan Younis continued.

The southern Gaza's main city has recently become the epicenter of relentless strikes and intense fighting between Palestinian resistance combatants and Israeli forces.

One of the Israeli strikes targeted a residential building near the European Hospital in Khan Younis overnight, officials said.

Nearly four months of the Israeli invasion have rendered Gaza "uninhabitable", according to the UN, while an Israeli siege has led to dire shortages of food, water, fuel and medicines.

The humanitarian crisis, coupled with soaring civilian casualties, has spurred increasing international calls for a ceasefire.

Qatar said Thursday that a truce proposal made in Paris "has been approved by the Israeli side and now we have an initial positive confirmation from the Hamas side".

A source close to Hamas, however, was quoted as saying that there was no agreement on the framework of the agreement yet.

"The factions have important observations and the Qatari statement is rushed and not true," AFP quoted the unnamed source as saying.

Besides I have my doubts that Netanyahu reads RT and he has stated that the war will continue until Hamas is eliminated.

Submitted by TheOtherMaven on Sat, 02/03/2024 - 10:46am

By which he means the war will continue until

@humphrey

all Palestinians are eliminated. "Hamas" is simply his figleaf of an excuse.

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