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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.