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Hamas makes chilling threat to Israel: Meet our demands, or we’ll execute the hostages

December 11, 2023 | | Print Article

Hamas spokesman, Abu Obeida, has delivered a chilling threat to Israel: Meet our demands, or forget about getting the remaining hostages back alive.

“Neither the fascist enemy and its arrogant leadership… nor its supporters… can take their prisoners alive without an exchange and negotiation and meeting the demands of the resistance,” the terrorist talking head stated during a televised broadcast on Sunday, according to The Telegraph.

Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a message of his own: Surrender immediately or die.

“in recent days, dozens of Hamas terrorists have surrendered to our forces,” Netanyahu said during a televised broadcast. “They are laying down their weapons and handing themselves over to our heroic fighters.”

“It will take more time,” he continued, “the war is in full swing, but this is the beginning of the end for Hamas.”

“I say to Hamas terrorists: It is over,” Netanyahu stated. “Don’t die for Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar. Surrender now!”

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As BizPac Review reported, the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas collapsed after a week, because Hamas failed to release all of its women hostages and “violated” the terms of the temporary truce.

State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller speculated that Hamas held on to its female hostages to keep them from sharing with the world the horrors they experienced as their captives.

“We’ve obviously seen the reports that Hamas has committed sexual violence, they’ve committed rape,” Miller said earlier this month. “We have no reason at all to doubt those reports.”

The ceasefire did see more than 100 women and children hostages freed — proof, said Obeida, of Hamas’s “credibility.”

For every hostage who was returned, three Palestinian prisoners were sprung from Israeli jails, the Daily Mail reports.

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Israeli national security adviser, Tzachi Hanegbi, suggested the war could drag on for months, “with key ally the United States not setting a deadline for Israel to achieve its goals,” according to the outlet.

“The evaluation that this can’t be measured in weeks is correct,” Hanegbi told Israel’s Channel 12, “and I’m not sure it can be measured in months.”

In a statement reminiscent of former Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, better known to Americans as “Baghdad Bob,” Izzat al-Rishq, a senior member of the Hamas political bureau, declared that history would “remember Gaza as the clearest of victories” for the militant Palestinians.

“The end of the occupation has begun in Gaza,” he insisted.

IDF chief Herzi Halevi, speaking over the weekend at a ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City, painted a different picture.

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“Every day, we’re seeing more and more terrorists killed, more and more terrorists wounded, and in recent days we’re seeing terrorists surrendering – this is a sign their network’s falling apart,” he said, “a sign we need to press harder.”

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