Hamas attacks Israel
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As of January 25, 2025, under the latest ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, a total of seven Israeli hostages have been released.
Details of the Releases:
1. January 19, 2025: Hamas released three Israeli civilians:
• Emily Damari (28)
• Romi Gonen (24)
• Doron Steinbrecher (31)
These individuals were handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross and subsequently reunited with their families in Israel. 
2. January 25, 2025: Hamas released four female Israeli soldiers:
• Karina Ariev (20)
• Daniella Gilboa (20)
• Naama Levy (20)
• Liri Albag (19)
These soldiers were released in exchange for 200 Palestinian prisoners as part of the ceasefire agreement. The ceasefire, which began on January 19, 2025, aims to halt the 15-month-long conflict in Gaza and includes provisions for further hostage releases and prisoner exchanges. Negotiations are ongoing, mediated by Qatar and Egypt, with plans for additional exchanges and Israeli troop withdrawals from Gaza. 
It’s important to note that while these releases are significant steps toward de-escalation, Hamas still holds approximately 90 hostages. The situation remains dynamic, and further developments are anticipated as negotiations continue. 
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Reporting here already two Palestinian prisoners refusing to leave prison. (On the list of prisoners being sent to Gaza) and prefer prison.
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@bachophile said in Hamas attacks Israel:
Reporting here already two Palestinian prisoners refusing to leave prison. (On the list of prisoners being sent to Gaza) and prefer prison.
They have a better life in an Israeli prison than they do in Gaza?
Education is extremely important.
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Yeah maybe they squealed for a better sentence or something.
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Me/rry/Christmas
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@LuFins-Dad said in Hamas attacks Israel:
@bachophile said in Hamas attacks Israel:
Words escape me
Those poor goats…
https://www.frontpagemag.com/trump-admin-pulls-50m-in-terror-condoms-for-gaza/
The Jerusalem Post reported in 2020 that scores of condoms were being used to create IED-carrying balloons that winds would carry into southern Israel, raising alarm on schoolyards, farmlands and highways.
At the time, the Post reported that the improvised explosive devices – floated into Israel via inflated contraceptives – burned thousands of hectares of land and caused “millions of shekels of damage.” It’s not clear if the practice continues.
Just two days after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, which involved Hamas terrorists brutally raping some of the approximately 1,200 people killed in southern Israel and hundreds of others brought back into Gaza as hostages, a global NGO known as the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) released a statement regarding the resulting war and escalating violence.
The NGO claimed that any blockade of aid shipments into Gaza would infringe on their “enormous gains made in life-saving sexual and reproductive healthcare in this region.”
A post from 6 years ago:
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For absolute fuck’s sake…
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I see what you did there.
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It could be over multiple years. Or maybe they fuck a lot.
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When you shake someone's deep sense of self-worth, leaving a scar in their ego, they will persistently try to diminish you through petty arguments & obsessive captious criticism of your actions, just to soothe the wound.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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@jon-nyc said in Hamas attacks Israel:
Alas, maybe too good to be true. USAid does send birth control to certain areas but none to Gaza.
That can't be right, she said she was only going to tell the truth.
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From the link in Jon's tweet.
The Fox pundit Jesse Watters even claimed that the condoms were being used by Hamas militants as balloons to float explosives into Israel.
A review of the available evidence, however, suggests that the claim is almost certainly not true.
"Even."
Did the author of that article do any research, like searching out the tweets I posted, from years ago?
A search of "hamas condoms bombs" dated from Jan 2016 to Jan 2024 (before the current kerfuffle) shows at least a dozen links confirming it:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hamas+condoms+bombs&t=osx&df=2016-01-28..2024-01-29&ia=web
Now, one can dispute where the funds went, and I, for one, have no problem believing that aid money was appropriately used by Hamas, but at least do some research. From I posted, the condoms as balloons story seems accurate. As to funds, I'l trust Hamas.
As Dan Evon of the non-profit News Literacy Project points out: “It’s also worth noting that this is not a Biden program. Trump, too, spent funds on sending contraceptives around the globe. In 2019, about $40m was spent on contraceptives by the Trump administration”.
Think that'll happen again?
