> Hamas released the last 20 living Israeli hostages who had been captive for just over two years.
> In turn, Israel freed nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
edit to add: I have expressed no opinion here, I'm just quoting the part of the article I was curious about after seeing pictures of the very small convoy
nkmnz•59m ago
Last time they've freed that many terrorists, one of them went home and planned Oct 7th.
leakycap•54m ago
I don't think one side would have randomly agreed to release without an exchange. Are you suggesting it would be better to leave the hostages of both sides in captivity just in case something happens upon release?
edgineer•26m ago
I'm not reading that Israel released every person of Palestinian descent from their prisons. In another source I see "agreed-upon number of Palestinian security prisoners" which apparently is the 2,000 we heard about today. In another source I see that 9,619 people in Israeli prisons in December 2024 were Palestinian.
It sounds to nme that Israel had freedom to choose who would be released or would stay in prison. That there was a number of people negotiated without specifying individuals, and that the number was about 20% of the total prisoners.
jncfhnb•6m ago
It’s a difficult question. Hamas’ incentives are _not_ aligned with the well being of Palestinian civilians.
If we see another terror attack in several years one may have to question the reason of this line of thinking.
The discourse of this conflict has had a lot of people saying the genocide of Palestinians is bad (true!) but then doing this awkward hand wavey dance of trying to avoid having to confront that Hamas is a violent terrorist cell planted by a foreign government (Iran) rather than a freedom fighting force that cares about the general populace.
stronglikedan•56m ago
Yes, that's how compromises work. Some progress is better than no progress.
leakycap•51m ago
You have replied as if I complained or said anything about the deal/compromise.
I simply quoted the numbers from the article because it was what I was curious about when I saw the headline & picture of the small convoy.
kyawzazaw•21m ago
a lot of them are prisoners with no charge
eyeundersand•13m ago
Heart breaks for Bipin Joshi and his family. Can't imagine what they had to go through :(
leakycap•1h ago
> In turn, Israel freed nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
edit to add: I have expressed no opinion here, I'm just quoting the part of the article I was curious about after seeing pictures of the very small convoy
nkmnz•59m ago
leakycap•54m ago
edgineer•26m ago
It sounds to nme that Israel had freedom to choose who would be released or would stay in prison. That there was a number of people negotiated without specifying individuals, and that the number was about 20% of the total prisoners.
jncfhnb•6m ago
If we see another terror attack in several years one may have to question the reason of this line of thinking.
The discourse of this conflict has had a lot of people saying the genocide of Palestinians is bad (true!) but then doing this awkward hand wavey dance of trying to avoid having to confront that Hamas is a violent terrorist cell planted by a foreign government (Iran) rather than a freedom fighting force that cares about the general populace.
stronglikedan•56m ago
leakycap•51m ago
I simply quoted the numbers from the article because it was what I was curious about when I saw the headline & picture of the small convoy.
kyawzazaw•21m ago