Ceasefire over as Israel strikes Gaza
after Hamas refused to release hostages,
officials say
Fox News,
by
Louis Casiano
&
Trey Yingst
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
3/17/2025 11:03:36 PM
The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is over as Israeli fighter jets began striking the Gaza Strip after Hamas refused repeated hostage deal offers, officials said.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) began striking Hamas terrorist targets across Gaza "in order to achieve the war objectives set by the political leadership, including the release of all our hostages—both the living and the fallen," the office of Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a letter.
"This decision comes after Hamas repeatedly refused to release our hostages and rejected all proposals presented by U.S. President’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, as well as the mediators," the letter states.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Italiano 3/17/2025 11:19:57 PM (No. 1916366)
Enough of the BS. Kill them all.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Wetenschapper 3/18/2025 12:06:26 AM (No. 1916375)
Agree with above post. When your kitchen is infested with cockroaches, you have to make sure you get them _all_ or within a few months, you're overrun with roaches again.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 3/18/2025 1:20:20 AM (No. 1916391)
I reiterate:
Kill ALL Hamas.
No prisoners.
This is the only solution to this problem.
37 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
5 handicap 3/18/2025 5:19:33 AM (No. 1916405)
It is impossible to negotiate with people who have no honor! he only real option in dealing with Islam is eradication! So it is written, so let it be done!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bpl40 3/18/2025 6:44:05 AM (No. 1916424)
Muslims are tolerant, peace-loving, reliable & trustworthy only when there is a sharp pointed knife pricking their belly button! And the threat of imminent disembowelment is real. This will be condemned as an Islamophobic (whatever that is) statement in today's day and age. But it is historically 100% accurate.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
billa57 3/18/2025 6:48:53 AM (No. 1916428)
Israel is past ready to have lasting peace in the middle east. The only way to accomplish a lasting peace is the elimination of radical Islam. I believe Israel is ready to take care of that need. Thank you Israel.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Hazymac 3/18/2025 6:57:41 AM (No. 1916431)
This time the Israelis should not stop until all Hamas is dead. Every one of them. Make them extinct.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Californian 3/18/2025 7:02:45 AM (No. 1916433)
Obviously all the blame is on those evil Jews, the felon Trump and the unelected foreigner billionaire.
It can't possibly be the fault of the 100% evil terrorists who started this round of horrific violence for PR reasons, obviously jealous that Ukraine had taken their place in the news and funding cycles.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Marzipan4 3/18/2025 7:39:27 AM (No. 1916445)
The dilemma is, using the cockroach analogy, how do you get the innocent out before you tent Gaza? Heartbreaking how these evil driven zealots have no shame in killing innocent due to hatred of Israel. Kind of like our Democratic Party…..
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/18/2025 7:48:48 AM (No. 1916454)
Play stupid games... It's highly doubtful that there are any hostages left that are in any condition to be returned to Israel other than in boxes, thus Hamas has been stalling. Israel is right in refusing a two-state solution and deserves to keep Gaza. The people who call themselves palestinians were once spread all over the Middle East so it's somebody else's turn to babysit them. We need to start rounding them up from our college campuses and drop them somewhere in the Sahara Desert. We are sick of these rabid people.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Venturer 3/18/2025 8:04:39 AM (No. 1916461)
IMO the real problem is Iran. There will be no pace in the Middle east until the Mullah's in Iran are dead and gone.
Iran instigates these problems and sits back while others die.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Alecto2 3/18/2025 9:14:17 AM (No. 1916492)
Our "peace" President jumps back into bed with the Zionists and the neocons. I guess all that moolah from Miriam Adelson was worth it?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Zigrid 3/18/2025 9:18:35 AM (No. 1916495)
I'm sure Hamas has the hostages tucked away in the underground tunnels...and needed more fighters so... they negotiated hostages for hundreds of Hamas prisoners from Israeli jails....but now the game is over...and may God have mercy on the hostages...but the country of Israel has to be saved from the muslim animals...and this is the only way they understand...hamas plays a good media information game...but all bets are off....
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
hershey 3/18/2025 9:22:54 AM (No. 1916501)
Time to stop pussyfooting about with those barbarians...just wipe them off the face of the Earth...
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
jasonB 3/18/2025 10:43:18 AM (No. 1916531)
Yay!!! More De@th and Destruction! Two groups of savages that don't want to ever stop with each other. If you are cheering this NEVER ending cycle on, you just may be a savage as well. AND, if you feel that strongly about it, I'd recommend getting on a flight over there and doing something about it.
If you dropped a thousand shovels to both sides, instead of building things to improve their lives, they'd promptly go about hitting each other with them.
And now we're talking about getting involved in Iran. Can we just cut off the Middle East? ALL of them. Let them fight over their pile of dirt.
I know, I'm going to be dog piled. Don't care. This country of ours has been in one war or another my entire adult life (I'M 59). When is enough? Maybe they don't "Hate us for our Freedoms" or whatever palaver Hannity (does he still wear his lil' CIA button?) is spewing this week, and are, maybe a bit tired of the US constantly sticking it's nose, and blowing things up everywhere around the world.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
kidsmom 3/18/2025 11:54:53 AM (No. 1916563)
I used to have a problem with indiscriminate bombing of Gaza because Hamas intentionally sets up bases of operation in schools and hospitals. However, after viewing the carnival atmosphere of the return of the Bibas bodies and the "joy" of everyday Palestinians, it's hard to muster any sympathy for "civilian casualties." I hope Hamas is completely destroyed and Gaza is leveled and turned into the Riviera envisioned for it.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 3/18/2025 12:49:25 PM (No. 1916605)
You Asked for It. (Sounds like a game-show title! /s)
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
synchronicity 3/18/2025 12:50:03 PM (No. 1916607)
As explained in The Closed Circle - An Interpretation of the Arabs by David Pryce-Jones, the Arab world doesn't have a concept of truth and lying akin to that of the Western world. In its place is the concept of honor and shame. If lying brings "honor" than it is useful and good, if telling the truth brings shame than it is to be avoided. The only "truth" in the Arab world is the Koran, everything else is a game of positioning yourself so you have "honor" and your enemies are "shamed". Unlike WWJD (what would Jesus do) the Arab world is all about shaming / hurting "enemies' (Jews and anyone not a Muslim are by definition "enemies") while honor / pride comes from killing enemies and / or dying in the process - there are bunches of eternal virgins waiting for these "honored" dead. It has been this way in that part of the world for thousands of years and will in all likelihood remain unchanged for hundreds / thousands of years to come.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 3/18/2025 12:53:13 PM (No. 1916612)
Here's a fond memory of such a meet-up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdUgMySUfZk
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 3/18/2025 1:02:46 PM (No. 1916621)
Only a speculation here, but Hamas did not release any more hostages, because none remain alive.
And the last time they did release a hostage, it was a single hostage, along with four dead bodies.
Hamas has no more living hostages to release. Nothing else makes any sense.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Omen55 3/18/2025 6:59:31 PM (No. 1916862)
Hamas has said they will continue to kill Jews.
Wipe Hamas out.
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