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U.S., Israel and Hamas reach tentative deal to pause conflict and free dozens of hostages

www.washingtonpost.com /national-security/2023/11/18/us-israel-hamas-reach-tentative-deal-pause-conflict-free-dozens-hostages/

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okay Gaza, go back to your...oh yeah your houses are still gone
- It’s like gambling, but instead of winning, you can only lose! And you have a 50% chance of losing everything!!
- Can't undo the murders that started it all either. Stop making the terrorists plan work you simpleton.
  
  And what the IDF is doing is not terrorism?
According to the Whitehouse, this has not been reached yet
Paywall. Is Israel also going to release Palestinian women and children hostages?
- People complain when I post stories from 3rd parties that say “according to Washington Post” and people complain when I link the Washington Post lol
  The article only mentions releasing hostages in Gaza
  
  Different people complaining, I think.
  
  Post the archive.org version of paywalled articles to get fewer complaints.
- https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
- https://archive.ph/w3d2W
  
  Thanks!
But how many civilians are they going to revive?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Concern about the captives — two of whom Israel said were found dead — along with the rising number of Palestinian civilian casualties have steadily increased pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
After initial hesitation, the Biden administration, under its own domestic pressure between advocates of unstinting support for Israel’s war aims and concern over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, has fully backed a temporary pause in the fighting.
Beginning with President Biden’s trip to Tel Aviv a week after the war began, and followed by multiple visits from Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other senior officials, the administration has pushed hard with Netanyahu to understand that it is losing the narrative high ground as more Palestinians die.
Brett McGurk, the White House National Security Council’s top Middle East official, is on an extended trip to the region to try to solidify the hostage release plan, including meetings in Israel and Qatar.
McGurk told the conference that Hamas’s release of a “large number” of the hostages, believed to total 239, “would result in a significant pause in fighting and a massive surge of humanitarian relief.
Those remarks drew an angry response from Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, who interpreted them as signaling that a pause allowing humanitarian relief would come only after the hostages were released unconditionally by Hamas.
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As soon as the hostages are released, the bombing will resume.
Please note that I want the hostages to survive just as much as I want the bombing to cease.

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