I’ve been watching the Israeli sources for several days to see if the tentative, coming very soon, imminent, hostages for ceasefire deal. What I kept seeing was this has been going on for weeks, nothing is happening, there’s no deal.
Now, however, we have news.
💥"Official Israeli source"
-50 hostages will be released at once
-Hamas has not committed to release all hostage children. Hamas says it will try to locate the rest during truce days
-Ceasefire will last 4 days
-Hamas will release 10 more hostages for every additional truce day— Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي💙 (@NTarnopolsky) November 21, 2023
– אסירים פלסטינים שהורשעו ברצח – לא ישוחררו
– האסירים הפלסטינים שישוחררו, נשים וקטינים, יועברו לביתם
– דלק וסיוע הומניטרי ייכנס לעזה במהלך ימי ההפוגה
– כל גורמי הביטחון, כולל צה״ל ושב״כ, תומכים בעסקה
– חמאס מסוגל לשחרר בשלב זה כ-80 חטופים— Suleiman Maswadeh סולימאן מסוודה (@SuleimanMas1) November 21, 2023
Machine translations of Maswadeh’s reporting:
The details of the kidnap deal, according to an Israeli political official:
– 50 abductees will be released at once
– There is no commitment from Hamas to release all the children. Hamas will try to locate the rest during the truce
– The ceasefire will be for 4 days
– Every additional day of the ceasefire, Hamas will release 10 more hostages
– The abductees who will be released alive, have Israeli citizenship
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And:
– Palestinian prisoners convicted of murder – will not be released
– The Palestinian prisoners who will be released, women and minors, will be moved to their homes
– Fuel and humanitarian aid will enter Gaza during the ceasefire days
– All security forces, including the IDF and Shin Bet, support the deal
– Hamas is able to release about 80 hostages at this stage
ETA at 12:00 PM EST: Here’s Barak Ravid’s reporting. It has now gone beyond the original four tweets I posted, so first tweet from the thread and the 8 from the Thread Reader App:
1 A senior Israeli official said in a briefing with reporters that the IDF, Shin Bet and Mossad support the hostage deal with Hamas and so are the members of the war cabinet
— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) November 21, 2023
2 \ The Israeli official said Israel’s insistence in the last two weeks led to an improvement of the deal mainly when it comes to the increase in the number of women and children that could be released and the decrease in the number of days of pause3 \ The official said that among the 50 hostages that will be released on phase one there will only be Israelis or Israelis dual nationals. The official said that if Hamas chooses to release foreign nationals who are not Israelis it is doing this not as part of the deal4 \ The official said that if during the four day pause Hamas locates more hostages it is willing to release Israel is ready to give another day of pause for every 10 hostages Hamas releases5 \ An Israeli official said: “We think Hamas can get 70-80 hostages. For all we are concerned it needs to bring hostages from the Islamic Jihad and other factions that hold hostages”6 \ According to the Israeli official, Israel will not release Palestinian prisoners who killed Israelis. In the 24 hours after the cabinet approves the deal the names of the prisoners will be made public so that Israeli citizens can appeal to court against their release7 \ The Israeli official added that Israel will allow more fuel into Gaza only during the days of the pause and once the pause is over the amount will go back to level before the deal8 \ The Israeli official said that Israeli intelligence services made clear they have surveillance capabilities other than drones and therefore they have no problem with stopping the use of drones for six hours a day during the pause9 \ As part of the agreement Israel will continue to prevent the return of Palestinians from southern Gaza to the northern Gaza strip during the days of the pause and the IDF will resume military operations in Gaza once the pause is over. END
So were does this leave us? As is the case with everything for the past 15 plus years, with Bibi!
BREAKING: An official who is involved in the negotiations on the hostage deal says “the ball is in Bibi’s court now” and he needs to make sure the cabinet approves it
— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) November 21, 2023
💥Netanyahu would not convene the government if he did not have a written offer in hand https://t.co/JFCaXlrNPY
— Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي💙 (@NTarnopolsky) November 21, 2023
What is Bibi actually up to these days? Noga Tarnopolsky has the details after the jump: (emphasis mine)
There May Now Be a Hostages for Ceasefire DealPost + Comments (130)