After some delays and disagreements over terms, Hamas released 15 more hostages to Israel last night. More than 200 captives still remain in Gaza, so the “trickle” approach still appears t.
After some delays and disagreements over terms, Hamas released 15 more hostages to Israel last night. More than 200 captives still remain in Gaza, so the “trickle” approach still appears to be the strategy that the terrorists are sticking with. (You can read a full list of the names of those that have been released here.) The truce is also holding in the Gaza Strip, with no new fighting or shelling being reported and more than 100 truckloads of aid arriving. How much of that will reach actual civilians and how much was immediately seized by Hamas is not known because Israel has also grounded its surveillance drones as part of the agreement. But that doesn’t mean that the fighting has ceased entirely. The action has now moved to the West Bank, where Palestinians have been attacking Israeli forces in scattered uprisings. The IDF killed at least eight Palestinians in the past day and fighting has broken out between Israeli West Bank settlers and neighboring Palestinians. The prospect of any sort of lasting peace still appears remote. (AP)
Israeli forces operating in the occupied West Bank killed at least eight Palestinians, including at least one militant, in a 24-hour period, Palestinian health officials said Sunday, as a fragile pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip entered its third day.
Violence in the West Bank has surged in the weeks since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct.
