It seems the Egyptians have come up with a second ceasefire proposal that would involve the release of 40 hostages and 120 Palestinians, followed by a two week ceasefire and more aid getting through. Therafter an extended ceasefire would be negotiated and all hostages released. The crux of the issue is that HamaSS would give up power to be replaced by an appointed commission to oversee the rebuilding of Gaza and new elections in a few years time.

So a complete ceasefire, no more deaths in Gaza but HamaSS overthrown and out of power. So, obviously, HamaSS rejected the proposal. Staying in power is far more important to them than the lives of Gazans.

Sadly that is also the case with people like Foxy and AC

mhaze,

Two words - Benjamin Netanyahu!

Yes, it is two words.

Well done!

Justice like beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

Difficult to understand why so many in the west readily accept the mass slaughter of something like 20,000 of the innocent citizens of Gaza, particularly women and children, at the hands of the Israelis. Even the US is having difficulty justifying the indiscriminate mass slaughter of so many innocent people by one of their closest allies.

Hi Soap Box,

Israel is entering its 12th week of a devastating
air and ground campaign in Gaza that's killed
more than 20,000 Palestinians, including
8,200 children.

The air-strikes have wrecked much of the besieged
enclave, taking out entire blocks and neighbourhoods
and displaced 1.0 million Palestinians who now live in
catastrophic conditions with little food, water and
medicine.

Hamas has told Egypt that aid for their people must
keep coming and must increase and must reach the
populations in the North and South. They said that
after the aggression is stopped and the aid is increased
they are ready to discover prisoner swaps.

However the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu publicly
re-iterated that the Israeli Defence Force will NOT
halt fighting in the strip until it toppled Hamas.

" We won't stop fighting. We're not stopping this war.
This war is not going to end until we finish them.
No less than that!"

A Prime Minister who advocates beating Palestinians
"repeatedly" until the pain is "unbearable."