Israel to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for fragile ceasefire

https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-hamas-hostages-ceasefire-10-14-2025-665a1cbe249f08c8513ceceaa04db201?link_source=ta_thread_link&taid=68ee79215d9e930001b21258&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=threads.net

Posted by Waffles86

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  1. So once again they are collectively punishing the Palestinian people of Gaza by taking away their food. I expected them to at least maintain a veneer of trying to abide by the ceasefire but it seems they are still way more interested in causing suffering.

  2. Isn’t the slow return of the dead hostages because of the rubble though? Or is it something else that came up now? Saying that aid trucks should be halved just doesn’t seem fair. So many before and after pictures of Gaza like it’s A LOT of rubble.

    **Edit**: Holy shit. Reread the entire article to see what the aid was halved by (and yes it was from 600 to 300 trucks) and also saw this:

    >On Tuesday, the U.N. development agency said the latest joint estimate with the European Union and the World Bank is that rebuilding Gaza will require $70 billion.

  3. The article says it’s because:
    1) there’s so much destruction it’s hard to pull the dead hostages out of the rubble or even locate where the bodies would be

    2) some of the dead hostages are in areas that are controlled by the idf. So Hamas can’t hand them over even if they wanted to

  4. > **The U.S.-proposed ceasefire plan called for all hostages living and dead to be handed over within 72 hours, meaning on Monday**. But it provided a mechanism if that didn’t happen, saying Hamas should share information about deceased hostages and “exert maximum effort” to carry out the handover as soon as possible.

    > Families of hostages and their supporters expressed dismay that only four of the 28 bodies were returned on Monday. **The Hostages Family Forum, representing many families, called it a “blatant violation of the agreement by Hamas.**”

    Hamas violated the ceasefire agreement. The “ceasefire now” crowd is awfully quiet. 🤔

  5. If Hamas had put as much effort into searching for bodies as they did searching for Palestinians to execute they’d probably have been given more leeway

  6. If Israel cared that much about the hostages, maybe the IDF shouldn’t have starved them, shot them, blown them up, and covered them with millions of tonnes of rubble

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