Lots, yes, according to the photos at today’s link and yesterday’s. But Grom took leave to doubt the numbers claimed yesterday, so we shall doubt along with him.
the forum announced plans for the second day of protests and strikes, Hamas reportedly agreed to a proposal for a partial ceasefire-hostage release deal that mediators had presented to the terror group a day prior.After the agreement was reported, an Israeli official confirmed to The Times of Israel that Jerusalem had received Hamas’s latest proposal, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemingly dismissed the reports and signaled that Israel was moving forward with its plan to take over the Palestinian enclave’s largest city and transfer its population to the southern Strip.
The proposal agreed to on Monday by Hamas would see the release of 10 living hostages in exchange for 150 Palestinian security prisoners during a 60-day truce, an Arab diplomat told The Times of Israel, adding that the deal will also see the release of bodies of slain hostages.
A source in Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terror group fighting alongside Hamas in Gaza, revealed similar details about the proposal and added that after the release of the first 10 hostages, “the remaining captives would be released in a second phase, with immediate negotiations to follow for a broader deal” for a permanent end to “the war and aggression” with international guarantees.
Terror groups in the Gaza Strip are holding 50 hostages, including 49 of the 251 abducted in Hamas’s October 7 onslaught and the body of an IDF soldier killed in 2014. Twenty of the hostages are believed by Israel to be alive, with 28 declared dead by Israeli authorities and “grave concerns” for the well-being of two others.