SO CALLED HOSTAGE CEASEFIRE DEAL REACHED.

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 SO CALLED HOSTAGE CEASEFIRE DEAL REACHED.

Jeremiah 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

Isaiah 57:21
21 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

1 Thessalonians 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

Ephesians 2:2
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

IN TEL AVIV ISRAEL THE ISRAELIS ARE GATHERED TO CELEBRATE THE HOSTAGES RELEASE OVER MONTHS OF TIME. IN GAZA THE ARABS ARE CHEERING BECAUSE HUNDREDS OF TERRORISTS WILL BE RELEASED IN GAZA AND THE WESTBANK TO KILL INNOCENT ISRAELIS AGAIN.IN THIS SO CALLED HOSTAGE-CEASEFIRE DEAL.

THIS BY FAR IS NOT A DONE DEAL YET.BUT TRUMP SAYS IT IS A CEASEFIRE, HOSTAGE DEAL.

Israeli official says ceasefire-hostage deal reached, Trump is first leader to confirm-Deal to be signed in coming hours, officials say * Cabinet set to meet tomorrow to approve it * First hostages could go free on Sunday By Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff Today, 1:48 am

IDF preparing to receive hostages released in upcoming deal-By Emanuel Fabian

The IDF is preparing to receive the hostages that will be released by Hamas from the Gaza Strip as part of the upcoming ceasefire deal.The name of the military’s preparation operation is dubbed “Wings of Freedom,” the IDF says.

PMO: ‘Number of clauses’ in hostage deal yet to be finalized-By Amy Spiro

The Prime Minister’s Office says that there are still “a number of clauses” in the hostage-ceasefire deal that have yet to be finally agreed upon.Israel hopes that “the details will be finalized tonight,” the PMO says.

With ‘EPIC’ deal reached, Trump says he’ll work with Israel to ensure Gaza’s ‘NEVER’ again terror safe haven By Jacob Magid

US President-elect Donald Trump says that with a ceasefire and hostage release deal inked, his incoming administration will work closely with Israel to make sure Gaza “NEVER again becomes a terrorist safe haven” and to expand the Abraham Accords.“With this deal in place, my National Security team, through the efforts of Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, will continue to work closely with Israel and our Allies to make sure Gaza NEVER again becomes a terrorist safe haven,” Trump writes on Truth Social.“We will continue promoting PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH throughout the region, as we build upon the momentum of this ceasefire to further expand the Historic Abraham Accords. This is only the beginning of great things to come for America, and indeed, the World!” he adds.“This EPIC ceasefire agreement could have only happened as a result of our Historic Victory in November, as it signaled to the entire World that my Administration would seek Peace and negotiate deals to ensure the safety of all Americans, and our Allies,” Trump continues. “I am thrilled American and Israeli hostages will be returning home to be reunited with their families and loved ones.”

EU commissioner welcomes deal, pledges to support recovery, peace efforts-By AFP-JAN 15,25

EU Commissioner for the Mediterranean Dubravka Suica hails a ceasefire and hostage-release deal between Israel and Hamas, saying the bloc “remains committed to supporting all efforts towards a long-lasting peace and recovery.”“I welcome the ceasefire agreement and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas, which will bring much-needed relief to those affected by the devastating conflict,” Suica posts on X.I welcome the ceasefire agreement and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas, which will bring much-needed relief to those affected by the devastating conflict.The EU remains committed to supporting all efforts towards a long-lasting peace and recovery.— Dubravka Suica (@dubravkasuica) January 15, 2025

Hamas said to agree to Gaza deal; PM’s office says no official word received yet-Long-sought hostage release-ceasefire agreement could be formally announced within hours, sources say, with captives possibly starting to go free SundayBy Agencies and ToI Staff Today, 5:12 pm-JAN 15,25

Israeli and Palestinian officials said Wednesday afternoon that Hamas had given its approval to a deal to release hostages and halt fighting in Gaza, though the terror group apparently had not submitted a formal written response yet.According to reports in multiple Hebrew media outlets, Israeli officials indicated that the two sides had come to an agreement and a deal could be announced as soon as Wednesday evening.Both Reuters and AFP reported that Hamas had given verbal approval for the deal, citing Palestinian sources. According to Reuters, the terror group had not yet given a written response to the ceasefire proposal.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office also stressed in a statement that it had not received an official Hamas response yet.The Walla news site cited an Israeli official as saying, “There is a breakthrough in the hostage deal negotiations in Doha. Hamas military leader in Gaza Mohammed Sinwar gave his okay.” Channel 12 quoted an Israeli official saying that “there has been a breakthrough,” and assessed that a deal could be signed later in the day.Kan news said ministers were clearing their schedules for a possible vote Wednesday night, though no cabinet meeting had been called yet, and several Hebrew media reports assessed that the cabinet would vote on Thursday.A Palestinian source quoted by Kan confirmed that negotiations had advanced and said the deal would likely be signed by Thursday.According to the source, Hamas leaders held a meeting into early Wednesday morning where almost all issues were sorted out, including maps Hamas had demanded Israel provide detailing its planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.Officials from mediators Qatar, Egypt and the US as well as Israel and Hamas had said on Tuesday that an agreement for a truce in the besieged Palestinian enclave and the release of hostages was closer than ever, buoying hopes among relatives of hostages and Gazans for an end to over 15 months of fighting.If confirmed, the breakthrough could see hostages go free as early as Sunday, according to various Hebrew media reports. The deal must still be approved by the security cabinet and then the full cabinet, and there will also be a two-day window to allow for appeals against the deal to the Supreme Court.The apparent progress came after both sides had blamed each other for delays in finalizing the deal.Reports in Israel have indicated that Jerusalem has found the deal broadly acceptable, and on Tuesday US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the “ball is now in Hamas’s court.”“If Hamas accepts, the deal is ready to be concluded and implemented,” said Blinken.An Israeli source familiar with negotiations earlier told AFP that talks were continuing in Doha on Wednesday.Joining Hamas in the indirect talks Wednesday were representatives from the Islamic Jihad terror group, an official from the group told AFP. Islamic Jihad, which is heavily backed by Iran, is believed to be holding some of the hostages kidnapped from Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack.Reports in Arab media early Wednesday had cited Palestinian officials accusing Israel of delaying the talks by introducing new demands, drawing immediate pushback from Jerusalem. “Hamas is making false claims that Israel added new conditions to the negotiations — in order to avoid executing the agreement,”  an Israeli diplomatic official said in a statement to reporters.Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said Tuesday that there was a “true willingness from our side to reach an agreement.”Hamas said Tuesday the ongoing negotiations had reached their “final stage” and that it had held consultations with other Palestinian factions and informed them of the “progress made.During months of on-off talks to achieve a truce in the devastating 15-month-old war, both sides have said at several points that they were close to a ceasefire, only to hit last-minute obstacles. The broad outlines of the current deal have been in place since mid-2024.Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza to remove Hamas from power after thousands of terrorists led by the group stormed into southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and taking 251 hostages.The war has killed over 46,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to Hamas-controlled health officials in the enclave. The numbers cannot be verified and do not differentiate between combatants and civilians.Hamas and other Gazan terrorist factions are believed to be holding 98 hostages, including the bodies of at least 36 confirmed dead by Israel. Most of the hostages were kidnapped on October 7, but two civilians and the bodies of two soldiers have been held for around a decade.The latest draft is complicated and sensitive. Under its terms the first steps would feature a six-week initial ceasefire.Israeli government spokesman David Mencer said the first phase of a deal would see 33 Israeli hostages freed, while two Palestinian sources close to Hamas told AFP that Israel would release about 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange.A source close to Hamas said that the initial hostage release would be “in batches, starting with children and women.”Even if the warring sides agree to the deal on the table, that agreement still needs further negotiations before there is a final ceasefire and the release of all the hostages. Negotiations for a second phase would commence on the truce’s 16th day, an Israeli official said, with media reports saying a second phase, if agreed, would see the release of the remaining captives.Under the proposed deal, Israel would maintain a buffer zone along the Philadelphi Corridor in southern Gaza, as well as an 800-meter-wide strip on Gaza’s northern and eastern border, according to the BBC.In the second phase, Hamas would release the remaining living captives — non-wounded adult males under the age of 50, all of whom Hamas considers “soldiers” — in exchange for more security prisoners and the “complete withdrawal” of Israeli forces from Gaza, according to a draft agreement seen by the AP,Hamas has said it will not free the remaining hostages without an end to the war and a complete Israeli withdrawal, while Netanyahu has in the past vowed to fight until Hamas’s military and governing capabilities are eliminated.The details of a full ceasefire remain difficult to resolve — and the deal does not include written guarantees that the ceasefire will continue until a deal is reached. That leaves the potential for Israel to resume its military campaign after the first phase ends.If all goes smoothly, Palestinians, Arab states and Israel still need to agree on a vision for postwar Gaza, a massive task involving security guarantees for Israel and billions of dollars in investment for rebuilding.Visiting Norway, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa said the Palestinian Authority was the sole body that should be tasked with running postwar Gaza.“While we are waiting for the ceasefire, it is important to stress that it won’t be acceptable for any other entity to govern the Gaza Strip but the legitimate Palestinian leadership and the government of the State of Palestine,” he told a conference, according to the text of his speech.Israel has rejected any involvement by Hamas, but it has been equally opposed to rule by the PA — which was violently ousted by Hamas from Gaza in 2007 — accusing it of supporting attacks against Israel.Most in the West have backed the PA coming in to administer the Strip after the war.The issue is one of several possible compromises Netanyahu has had to deal with as he navigates intense opposition to the deal from right-wing hardliners in his coalition. The prime minister was making headway on clinching enough political support to bypass the right wing, figures close to the talks told The Wall Street Journal.In Tel Aviv Tuesday night, relatives of hostages and supporters rallied to push politicians toward a deal, while a separate march was held in Jerusalem to protest against the nascent agreement.“Time is of the essence,” said Gil Dickmann, cousin of former hostage Carmel Gat, whose body was recovered in September.“Hostages who are alive will end up dead. Hostages who are dead might be lost,” Dickmann told AFP. “We have to act now.”“We can’t miss this moment,” said Hadas Calderon, whose husband Ofer and children Sahar and Erez were abducted. “This is the last moment; we can save them.” Her children were freed in November 2023, while her husband remains in captivity.Despite the efforts to reach a ceasefire, the Israeli military said Wednesday it had attacked about 50 targets throughout Gaza over the last 24 hours.In Gaza, Umm Ibrahim Abu Sultan, displaced from Gaza City to Khan Younis in the south, said that she had “lost everything” in the war.“I am anxiously awaiting the truce,” said the mother of five.The United Nations said it was preparing to expand humanitarian assistance to Gaza under a potential ceasefire, but there was still uncertainty around border access and security.“We are waiting for the ceasefire and the truce. May God complete it for us in goodness, bless us with peace, and allow us to return to our homes,” said Amal Saleh, 54, a Gazan displaced by the war.“Even if the schools are bombed, destroyed, and ruined, we just want to know that we are finally living in peace.”A senior Arab diplomat told The Times of Israel on Tuesday that the three-phased hostage deal currently being finalized was largely the same as the one that was proposed by Israel last May.“A deal could have been reached much earlier, but both sides led to talks falling apart at various times,” the diplomat familiar with the negotiations said.Washington has placed the blame for previous failures to reach a deal squarely on Hamas.

Op-ed: Day 467 of the war-Get them all home-Phase One — intended to secure the release of 33 hostages — must be followed by phases two and three, intended to secure the release of all of the rest, living and dead-By David Horovitz-Today, 3:02 pm-JAN 15,25

Farhan al-Qadi, the most recent Israeli hostage rescued alive by the IDF, emerged from a Hamas tunnel into the daylight in late August in what appeared to be astoundingly good shape.A wiry 52-year-old Bedouin man, al-Qadi, who had been moved around several times during his more than 10 months in captivity, was extricated by the IDF from a tunnel where he had been held alone and from where his captors had fled. Despite the horrors he had endured, he was able to immediately and coherently answer Israeli security officials’ questions — to the point where he reportedly even supplied information that, had it been heeded, might just have saved the lives of other hostages held nearby.A single day later, he was welcomed back to his home near Rahat and declared that he was feeling “100 percent.”Another five months later, it would be near-miraculous if many, or any, of the hostages for whose freedom the nation is yearning were to come home in anything like al-Qadi’s remarkably robust condition. The weeklong truce at the end of November 2023 saw a series of daily releases, in a fraught process that constantly seemed close to collapse, where the conclusion of each day’s nail-biting border-transfer process allowed for unconstrained celebration as almost all of those who were released were in outwardly reasonable condition.Their ordeal had been unthinkable, but, we now see, relatively brief. The 105 hostages who got out then had been held for some 50 days. Those whose fate is at stake now have been imprisoned, in conditions and circumstances we cannot begin to comprehend, for 467. Many of them are no longer alive.After they are freed, there will be countless questions as to why it took so long for the State of Israel — which so utterly failed on October 7 in its prime obligation to keep its citizens safe from our enemies — to save them from their monstrous, mass-murdering captors.Was the war against Hamas strategically mishandled? Was the kind of deal being finalized now possible many months ago? Were opportunities missed because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu feared he would lose his governing majority, amid far-right opposition, as Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben Gvir has indicated? Was his claim that retaining the Philadelphi Corridor along the Gaza-Egypt border was essential to Israel’s very existence merely an untenable political delaying tactic, as his sacked defense minister Yoav Gallant has contended? Or was Hamas, while it was still seeing Hezbollah intact and Iran confident, hitherto an implacable obstacle to a deal?Could more hostages’ lives have been saved? Could fewer soldiers have lost their lives?Will Hamas reconstitute itself, especially given Netanyahu’s refusal to work strategically on a framework for a non-Hamas day after in Gaza, and outgoing US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s stunning assertion that Hamas, as the war has proceeded, has recruited as many new gunmen as Israel has killed? Will Israel be able to swiftly resume fighting, as US President-elect Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser Mike Waltz would appear to suggest will be necessary, and as Netanyahu insists will be the case? Or will Trump seek to ensure no fresh major outbreak of war, as he intimated in his victory speech, and as Hamas has been demanding these past many months? The deal, if it is indeed broadly similar to the Israeli proposal conveyed to the mediators in late May, is incredibly problematic — a deal with the devil, which the devil, invigorated by the release of some 200 of its most dangerous terrorists, fully intends will enable it to revive and murderously thrive, in the West Bank as well as Gaza.Endless questions await the essential powerhouse state commission of inquiry that Netanyahu is so fiercely resisting, and that will need to probe the events before, during and since the cataclysm of October 7, 2023. And endless challenges, external and internal, will still face Israel if and when the deal is done.But first, all the hostages, the men, the women, the children, must come home, in what will be a process far more protracted and unquestionably more harrowing than what has gone before. Phase One — intended to secure the release of 33 hostages, not all of them alive — must be followed by phases two and three, intended to secure the release of all of the rest, living and dead.

Israel rebuffs ‘imperialist’ Turkey after Erdogan says it must withdraw from Syria-Turkish leader warns of an ‘unfavorable outcome for everyone’ if IDF troops don’t leave buffer area they entered after fall of Assad regime-By Amy Spiro,ToI Staff and Reuters Today, 4:08 pm-JAN 15,25

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Israel must withdraw its forces from Syria or it will cause “unfavorable outcomes for everyone.”“The aggressive actions of the forces attacking Syrian territory, Israel, in particular, must come to an end as soon as possible,” he said during a meeting of his party in Ankara.“Everyone should take their hands off Syria and we, along with our Syrian brothers, will crush the heads of Islamic State, the YPG and other terrorist organizations in a short time.”Israel in response warned Ankara against “unnecessary threats.”“Israel completely rejects the Turkish president’s statement,” the Foreign Ministry said. “The aggressive imperialist actor in Syria (as well as in northern Cyprus, Libya, and other areas in the Middle East) is Turkey itself, and it is advisable for the Turkish president to avoid unnecessary threats. The State of Israel will continue to act to protect its borders from any threat.”The IDF has said that its deployment to a buffer zone on the Syrian side of the border and strategic positions beyond the zone is a defensive and temporary measure amid the unstable situation in Syria since last month’s fall of Bashar al-Assad.Meanwhile, in the past month, Turkey has said repeatedly that it was time for the Kurdish YPG militia to disband. Ankara considers the group, which spearheads the US-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), as a terrorist organization.Ankara has said the new Syrian administration must be given an opportunity to address the YPG presence but also threatened to mount a new cross-border operation against the militia based in northeast Syria if its demands are not met.Erdogan said the YPG was the biggest problem in Syria now, and added that the group would not be able to escape its inevitable end unless it lays down its arms.“Regarding fabricated excuses like Islamic State, these have no convincing side anymore,” Erdogan said, referring to the US position that the YPG was a key partner against Islamic State in Syria and that it plays a vital role in guarding prison camps where the Islamist terrorists are kept.“If there is really a fear of the Islamic State threat in Syria and the region, the biggest power that has the will and power to resolve this issue is Turkey,” he said.Turkey has repeatedly asked its NATO ally the United States to halt support for the SDF and has said the new administration in Syria had offered to take over the management of the prisons.As Israel and Hamas seemingly inch closer to signing a deal that would see hostages released in exchange for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons, Erdogan also commented on the potential ceasefire.“With the establishment of a ceasefire in Gaza, where genocide and massacres have been ongoing for 15 months, an important opportunity will arise for lasting peace and stability across the entire region,” he said.“We are closely following the ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas, and we hope to receive positive news as soon as possible.”Erdogan has been a harsh critic of Israel, particularly over the last 15 months of war between Israel and Hamas, which broke out after the terrorist organization launched an unprecedented cross-border attack on southern Israeli communities on Oct. 7, 2023, murdering some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 251 hostages.The Turkish president has repeatedly accused Israel of genocide in the war, compared Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler, and even threatened Israel in July that Turkey could intervene militarily in support of the Palestinians if the war did not end.