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Kingdom two crowns bomb3/2/2024 ![]() On both sides, the trade focused on women and children. Hamas released eight hostages on Thursday, two fewer than expected, after releasing at least 94 since the truce began. Israel, for its part, said that Hamas had violated the cease-fire agreement by firing on Israel and failing to release as many hostages as it had promised. Hamas blamed Israel for the collapse of the cease-fire and said in a statement that it had offered to release more hostages, including older people, but that Israel had made “a prior decision to resume the criminal aggression.” Despite increasing international pressure to reach a more comprehensive cease-fire, Israeli officials have emphasized in recent days that they intend to destroy Hamas, the armed group that controls most of Gaza. ![]() International mediators said talks were continuing in the hopes of quickly reviving the truce, which saw the two adversaries exchange hostages and prisoners and brought a respite from Israeli bombardment for Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Does the NYT have any way of checking whether this is true, or are they doing lazy journalism? It’s almost as if Hamas wants the conflict to restart, or perhaps thought Israel would swallow this stuff and keep the pause simply to get the hostages back:Ī weeklong cease-fire in the Gaza Strip collapsed on Friday morning after Israel said Hamas had fired rockets toward Israel in the hours before the truce was set to expire, and Israel responded with strikes on the territory. And don’t forget the Hamas bus shooting in Israel (see below), which killed three. Also, yesterday Hamas released eight hostages instead of the promised ten, though Israel released the usual 30 terrorists. ![]() However, talks are continuing over reviving the “pause.” But lordy, why did Hamas fire rockets on Israel, which apparently started the war again?. *I’m writing this on Friday morning, and just discovered, as I predicted three tweets down, that Israel has resumed fighting in Gaza after the latest truce expired. Readers are welcome to mark notable events, births, or deaths on this by consulting the December 1 Wikipedia page. It’s also Bartender Appreciation Day, Eat a Red Apple Day (I dislike all of these mush bombs give me a tart Granny Smith), National Christmas Lights Day, National Pie Day, Rosa Parks Day in Ohio and Oregon (she wasn’t born or died on this day), World AIDS Day, and Military Abolition Day in Costa Rica, one of the few countries in the world that doesn’t have an army it was abolished on this day in 1948. There is, of course, only one fruitcake in existence, which is endlessly passed from hand to hand. It’s also National Pear Month, National Egg Nog Month and National Fruit Cake Month. Yep, it’s December now, and today is National Fried Pie Day, a speciality of the American South. Greetings from sunny (but crisp) Cambridge on Friday, December 1, 2023. I’m BAAACK, but with a truncated Hili dialogue, and am allowing Dr Cobb to go back to his book writing.
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