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That's the Hannibal Directive. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-17/ty-article/.premium/unlawful-unethical-horrifying-idf-ethics-expert-on-controversial-hannibal-directive/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Israeli–Palestinian_prisoner_exchange "On 22 November it was announced that Israel and Hamas had reached an agreement about a cease fire and the release of 50 hostages, in response the Israeli government would release 150 Palestinian prisoners. Hamas has acknowledged children would be the main component of the hostages released." Some were rearrested, maybe due to there being too much celebration. Are you referring to Gilad Shalit case then? There were 1000 prisoners released back then.

I didn't think that I needed to mention the term "ethnic cleansing".

Very few Palestinian prisoners committed multiple murders because those people are usually shot on the spot even before they can actually kill someone.

Maybe some were free lancers, but the end result was to be that they would be exchanged for Palestinians, including political prisoners, in Israeli jails.

The claims of systematic rape are not believed, but beyond that there is evidence for IDF killing their own, in some cases to prevent live hostages from reaching Gaza. Then there is destruction in kubbutzi, some of which is too gross to have been caused by small arms.

Israeli is required by international law to feed and care for the occupied people of Gaza, deemed to be under their control. Instead for years there was the diabolical practice to calculate the minimum calorie consumption to prevent starvation (1750?) and to limit food deliveries to that. Of course back then Gazans could to some extent grow food, but farms were also attacked in the present onslaught.

Don't forget to mention BBC.

Yes, to exchange for captives in Israeli prisons, including political prisoners.

They are in an open-air prison called Gaza. There used to be some roofs, but bombs took care of that.

There is no safe place to go. Hamas is asking that people from northern Gaza be allowed to return there, as fighting there is ostensibly over, but Israel has refused.

US is asking Israel to show their plan for moving the million plus people in Rafah, and Israel has not done so. US wants to see preparations for the encampments such as a water supply and so on.

No starvation in Gaza. That's what the lovely young woman, spokesperson for Netanyahu, always says when asked by BBC.

Maybe that's not what they were celebrating. Rather that some broke out of the high-tech prison, outsmarted their captors.

AseanNow should add new reaction icons, one for "lie", another for "propaganda". The "confused" icon does not say enough.

The intention to commit war crimes by Israeli leaders through statements on TV was displayed in video clips before the ICJ in the case brought by South Africa.

Have a sense of proportion!

Some Israeli cabinet ministers were suggesting that other countries (not Egypt) absorb the people of Gaza. Then there was the meeting about putting settlers back in Gaza. Then somebody was fantasizing about selling Gaza land for beachfront villas.

That is what Vladimir Netanyahu said - the Amalek tale.

Unfortunately they are not finished yet.

IDF have a responsibility to ascertain that civilians are not present. The present policy is intentionally disproportional and indiscriminate, unlike previous Gaza operation. We might say that this is a "special military operation"!

Right, and indiscriminate killing of civilians is unlawful.

Sorry, I just checked. Israeli Arabs can indeed volunteer to serve in the IDF.

That was in the early days of colonialism. The end of WW2 was the time for decolonization, except for Israel which resurrected the British occupation laws from 1967 to run apartheid in the West Bank.

SInce when can Palestinians join the army? Druze can, though. Army service confers various advantages, so Palestinians are disadvantaged.