First ceasefire deal Hamas remembers the first ceasefire deal in late November 2023
Under that deal, it released around a dozen women and children hostages per day. However, by December 1, 2023 it was unwilling to release more women and children hostages.
Instead, the terrorist group said at the time that it would turn over the bodies of Shiri Bibas and her children Kfir and Ariel, as well as their father Yarden.
NPR noted then that “Hamas, in a statement issued Friday afternoon local time, said Israel ‘bears full responsibility’ for the breakdown of the ceasefire.
In all-night negotiations, the Islamist [terrorist] group said: it ‘offered to exchange prisoners and the elderly [and]... offered to hand over the bodies of those killed and detained as a result of the Israeli bombing.’
The New York Times added,: “Hamas also proposed exchanging the children’s father, Yarden Bibas, who it says is still alive, for a few dozen of the longest-serving prisoners.”
At the time, Israel had rejected this, and fighting immediately resumed when Hamas violated the deal.
Today, Hamas knows that 1. the 42-day deal that began on January 19 has ended, 2. and it doesn’t think Jerusalem will invade Gaza again.
