33 hostages they said in the first phase, which includes, four women, children and men over the age of 50.
Donald Trump....we have a deal for the hostages... please log in to view this image he just had to get involved lol.
Apparently signed on both sides now. The part I'm most interested in are the details of what the 'day after' will look like. Blinken at least introduced some fresh ideas yesterday but they need to be fleshed out and followed through, and it will be the Trump administration that will now need to do that. Emotionally, the release of hostages and a ceasefire is right now the most pressing agenda. But unless there is a genuine multilateral coherence on what tomorrow will look like, we'll be back to everyone blowing eachother up in a few years.
Trump just said hostages will be released shortly.......he clearly hasn't read or heard the terms of the deal. 33 hostages but only 3 in the first week as I understand it.
I'm sure he'll take full credit for this the minute he assumes office. He'll tell anyone who'll listen that it was his threat on twitter that shifted the regional balance and made everyone come to their senses.
Trump will not have read a word of the deal, but he'll play it like it was him that brokered it. Although I do accept him coming to office will have some influence on the outcome that is being managed today.
It has. He is the only world leader who can get the Saudis to sit at the table and take a leading role in the rebuild. They are key to this imo.
And I should add: The 'day after' should not include any of the current leadership of Hamas, Fatah or Netanyahu. They have all singularly failed in their duty to protect their citizens for an entire generation. To quote that late, great Arsenal philosopher: IT'S TIME TO GO.
I’ve just read the ceasefire is going to start from Sunday. Why not now? I reckon the Palestinians are in for a brutal few days as one last reminder not to **** about again
It's like the end of WW1, ceasefire was agreed yet on multiple front lines last second attacks were called and people continued to die for a war that was concluded.
I heard it takes a few days for the message to get through, so I thought don't they have mobile phones or pagers in Gaza #OnlyExplodingOnes
Aye was the last shooting a snidey German? I vaguely remember what you’re talking about and some guy taking a proper cheap shot as the troops were pretty much packing up and getting ready to go home.
Doesn’t take a few days to get a message down the chain of command. An hour at the most. Do the hostages get returned after the ceasefire or is that happening immediately?
I think the first hostage gets returned on day one, so I assume that will be Sunday (or Monday) I believe it's 3 in the first week, I don't know the timings for the other 2 I believe it to be 33 in the first phase, but I don't know how many weeks a phase is. Edit: The first phase is six weeks.
