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Militant Hamas said Saturday it would release 10 living hostages and 18 bodies in return for Israel's release of Palestinian prisoners and ending the war that began in October 2023.
It is seen as neither an explicit rejection nor a clear acceptance of a US truce plan, which Washington says Israel has agreed to.
Hamas said it has not rejected a ceasefire proposal presented by US President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, senior Hamas official Basem Naim told Reuters on Saturday. The BBC has banned a Gaza reporter who described Jews as "devils," according to British newspaper The Telegraph, on Saturday.
Police in America are responding to a "targeted terror attack" in Colorado that reportedly targeted a pro- Israel march.
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Freed Israeli hostage Omer Shem Tov revealed to CNN on Wednesday that the terrorist group Hamas, who had held him
Keith Siegel has been free for nearly four months, but he is still pained by vivid images of his 484 days as a Hamas hostage and of those still held in Gaza’s tunnels.
They then told him that Hamas has an ‘army’ operating out of Gaza that focuses specifically on media and sending Hamas propaganda and messaging throughout America.”
Former Israeli hostage Omer Shem Tov told CNN his Hamas captors feared President Donald Trump's return to office and that his treatment improved after Trump won the November election.
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The Times of Israel on MSNSenior Israeli official: Hamas ‘must understand it has to accept the Witkoff outline’Official says Israel 'prepared for negotiations when Hamas comes to terms with reality'; IDF chief tells families of slain hostages that return of captives is 'a top priority task' The post Senior Israeli official: Hamas ‘must understand it has to accept the Witkoff outline’ appeared first on The Times of Israel.