Hamas refuses to provide hostage list again, breaching ceasefire once more

Hamassholes before releasing four Israeli hostages to a Red Cross team in Gaza City.
 Jan. 25, 2025. Photo: Aboos Abusalama/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images.

On Saturday, Hamas failed to provide Israel with a list detailing the status of the remaining 26 hostages scheduled to be released during the first phase of the ceasefire, marking a second breach of the agreement within 24 hours, according to local media reports on Sunday. This is typical of the terror group as they lie and violate agreements like it was a joke.

According to the terms of the deal, Hamas was supposed to inform Jerusalem by Saturday which of the remaining hostages, all categorized as humanitarian cases—female, children, elderly, and sick—were still alive. Having failed to do so, it is feared that many hostages have since been killed after being kidnapped on Oct. 7, 2023.

The Hamassholes also breached the agreement by releasing four female Israel Defense Forces soldiers on Saturday while keeping Israeli civilian Arbel Yehud in captivity. Under the terms of the deal, Hamas was obligated to release civilian women and children hostages before freeing the female troops. This is their way of pulling on the heartstrings of Israelis and simply being anal sphincters.

Despite these breaches, Israel has stuck to the stupidly agreed-to-ratio for releasing Arab prisoners from its jails. The initial terms stated that more terrorists would be freed in exchange for soldiers than for civilians.

However, in response to Hamas's actions, Jerusalem has halted the northward movement of Arab noncombatants.

“As per the agreement, Israel will not allow the passage of Gazans to the north of the Strip until the release of the civilian Arbel Yehud, who was supposed to be released today, is arranged,” the Prime Minister’s Office stated on Saturday, shortly after IDF hostages Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, and Naama Levy returned to Israel.

Earlier this week, the IDF  announced that Arabs would be allowed to return northwards if Hamas adhered to the ceasefire terms.

Hamas has claimed that Yehud is alive and well and would be freed with the next group of captives on Feb. 1, trying to blame the failure to release her on the Iranian-backed Palestinian [sic] Islamic Jihad and a related Salafist group reportedly holding her.

Overnight, Hamas encouraged thousands of Arabs to move back to the northern Strip to pressure Israel, leading to IDF soldiers firing warning shots to control the crowd, as reported by local media.

The military emphasized in a Saturday night statement that troops were only to fire warning shots, urging Arabs to “obey IDF instructions and not approach the forces deployed in the area.”

Israeli estimates suggest there are still 90 hostages in Hamas captivity in Gaza, including 87 taken during the Oct. 7 attacks.

Of the 251 hostages kidnapped on Oct. 7, 164 have been returned or rescued, and Hamas is believed to hold 35 bodies, with 34 of them from the Oct. 7 incident, and that of Lt. Hadar Goldin, captured by the terror group in 2014.

Hamas breached the terms of the hostage release deal within 24 hours of its Jan. 19 implementation by failing to provide Israel with the names of the three female captives that were scheduled for release the next day.

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Tip-toe Through the Tunnels

August 1, 2014. Zev Chafets, a Fox News contributor, recently published a piece for entitled: So far, Israel has won nothing but the contempt of unmolested Hamas high command The title is longer than the web link but some people like to bloviate and Zev Chafets is no exception.

Chafets quotes Muhammed Deif, the military commander-in-chief, "We love death for Allah the way that you love life." This Muhammed is about as original as gum, but he is allegedly a man of his word, according to Chafets, and he has a solution that he believes will satisfy both Israel and Hamas: "kill Muhammed Deif, his entire command structure and as many of his gunmen as possible." Chafets seems to think this is an easy task.

But Chafets believes that Israel is too focused on blowing up the terror tunnels which he says Hamas has built over the years to "defend itself from airstrikes and as an avenue of attack against Israel." He cites the fact that Hamas used a commando team to emerge from a tunnel, kill 2 IDF soldiers and capture Lt. Hadar Goldin as a way of saying that going after the tunnels is time wasted. He goes as far as to say that Israel's military is "more like a paper army, deploying ground forces on tippy toe, failing to find or engage the enemy and unwilling to risk casualties by fighting aggressively."