Quote Originally Posted by The Bedlington Terrier View Post
One bit of breaking news this morning that has taken me completely by surprise:

Netanyahu will negotiate with "terrorists".

Hamas somehow managed to take more than fifty women and kids hostage.

Netanyahu will swop 50 Jewish women and kids for 150 Palestinian women and kids who are currently locked up in Israeli jails, I presume incarcerated without trial.

My biggest question is how on earth are Hamas keeping the hostages safe when the IDF are reducing Gaza to piles of rubble?
Not sure why you are surprised mon ami, it's been talked about for several days now, as for the hostages, they're in the metro under southern Gaza which the IDF has not attacked yet. Interestingly I've read that the IDF are fully on board with a ceasefire, it was the more hard line Israeli politicians who needed bringing on board.