BREAKING: Israel approves a ceasefire with Hamas

by The Right Scoop

Israel has reportedly approved a ceasefire to end hostilities in Gaza and Hamas is apparently on board with it as well:

AXIOS – Israel’s Security Cabinet voted on Thursday evening local time to support a ceasefire with Hamas to end the fighting in Gaza.

The state of play: Hamas officials have also backed the ceasefire, which they said would go into effect at 2am on Friday (7pm Thursday ET). But Israeli officials said the exact timing still needs to be determined by the Egyptian mediators.

Driving the news: Both sides intensified their attacks over the last 24 hours in anticipation of a ceasefire. Gaza health officials say at least 232 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of the crisis, including 65 children. Twelve people have been killed in Israel.

Netanyahu has been under growing international pressure to approve a ceasefire, including from the Biden administration, but had insisted up to now that Israel needed additional time to complete its military objectives in Gaza.

Hamas officials have called on Israel to end police “incursions” into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, or Temple Mount, and stop the evictions of Palestinian residents in East Jerusalem as part of the ceasefire.

Israel refuses to discuss any agreement that would link the Gaza conflict to Jerusalem, sources familiar with the talks tell Axios.

I am not a fan of this ceasefire at all. As long as Hamas still exists Israel should keep pounding Gaza until they are eliminated.

But this always happens doesn’t it? Every time Gaza starts shooting rockets into Israel and they begin retaliating, the international community begins to pressure Israel to stop the bombardment.

And let me just correct one thing here in that Axios article. They write:

The current escalation began last Monday in Jerusalem after Israeli police raided the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, or Temple Mount, where Palestinians had been protesting the possible forced removal of six Palestinian families in favor of Jewish settlers. After the raid, Hamas fired rockets on Israel.

This is not true. Terrorist in Gaza were firing rockets into Israel on the Saturday and Sunday before the Israeli police raided the al-Aqsa Mosque on Monday the 10th:

Now it is true that Hamas began it’s larger bombardment campaigns after this, but it is not true to say that the current situation began at that point. The raid is also no justification for rockets being fired by Hamas in the first place. There is no moral equivalence here. These terrorists at the Al Aqsa Mosque were attacking Israeli police officers with rocks and other items and that’s why the raid happened. If they had just been there to pray, there would have been no raid.


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