A person who used to work on making peace and helping free hostages for Israel said the agreement between Israel and Hamas is not very strong.
Gershon Baskin, who helped free Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2011, said to the media that this agreement is very hard.
Baskin said: “There are two groups of people who don’t trust each other and have no good reason to trust each other. ”
A lot of things might go wrong. There is no sure thing, and anything could cause the agreement to fall apart.
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Deal deemed ‘very fragile’ by former hostage negotiator
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Israeli soldier slain in Gaza laid to rest
Israeli soldier Lavi Lipshitz, 20, is having his funeral at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem. He was killed yesterday during ground combat in the northern Gaza Strip.
Following the deaths of 11 soldiers yesterday, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about the “painful losses” earlier.
“A just war, a war for our home,” Netanyahu declared, “our soldiers fell in.”
More update on this story soon…
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‘Remain hopeful’ about deal to free several Israeli detainees – Former negotiator
A person who helped free an Israeli soldier named Gilad Shalit from being held captive by Hamas in 2011 recently told the BBC that there is still a chance to resolve the hostage crisis as long as the invasion hasn’t started yet.
Gershon Baskin, the Middle East director of an organization that protects human rights, said he is trying to make a truce and free the women, children, elderly, wounded, and sick people as fast as he can.
He told Newsday that keeping people as hostages is not right according to Islam and the Quran. It goes against what Hamas believes in.
Baskin thinks that the Israeli government might agree to stop fighting if they can get back the people they are holding, but only if there are no additional demands.
According to Baskin, Hamas, which is considered a terrorist organization in several countries, keeps changing their demands.
He says there is still a chance for a solution to the hostage situation before the ground invasion starts.
Israel is taking their time because they want to try everything possible to rescue the civilian hostages in Gaza before they send in a large number of troops, tanks, and artillery. “And that is a good indication. “ -
3-year-old Palestinian boy dies after being shot by Israeli troops
Days after an Israeli soldier shot a 3-year-old Palestinian boy in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said that the boy had passed away on Monday.
Despite efforts to save him, including helicopter transport to an Israeli hospital, Muhammad Haitham al-Tamimi passed away.
He was shot on Thursday night in the West Bank, north of Jerusalem, close to the Israeli town of Neveh Tzuf.
Haitham Tamimi, the child’s father, claimed that he was on his way to see his brother when he and Muhammad were shot.
“As soon as I started the car I heard gunshots and I saw the Israeli soldiers out of the military tower,” Tamimi told CNN.
“I looked at Muhammad and couldn’t believe what I saw. He was shot in the head and there was blood all over his body. I took him in my arms and then realized that I’m also shot in my right shoulder. People from the village came quickly, and they took us both with their cars. This is when Israeli ambulances and a helicopter came and took Muhammad to the Israeli hospital.”
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its troops were firing back at gunmen shooting at Neveh Tzuf when they hit two Palestinians, a 3-year-old and a man.
IDF and Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency medical teams treated both of the victims, and succeeded in getting the child’s heart beating again, the MDA said at the time.
The child was then transported, ventilated and in unstable condition, by IDF helicopter to Sheba-Tel Hashomer hospital in Israel.
“The IDF regrets harm to non-combatants and is committed to doing everything in its power to prevent such incidents. The incident is under review,” the IDF said early Friday. The military did not immediately have a new statement in light of the death of the child, pointing CNN to the Friday statement.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry Monday condemned the killing of Tamimi as “a heinous crime against humanity,” and demanded “an urgent international investigation into this crime and other crimes of killing Palestinian children.”
The child’s father was treated for his gunshot wound at a hospital in Ramallah and was released on Sunday.
The bullet wound, he said, was not hurting: “I feel no physical pain. the pain in my heart is way too big.”