Hamas handed over the bodies of four hostages in exchange for Israel’s release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners Thursday, days before the first phase of their ceasefire will end. Israel had delayed the agreed-upon prisoner release,
Mousa Abu Marzouk, the head of Hamas’s foreign relations office, said he would not have supported such an attack on Israel had he known of the devastation it would wreak on Gaza.
Israel was expected to free more than 600 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the bodies of four Israeli hostages by Hamas, five days after Israel halted prisoner releases in protest over Hamas shows of force.
Did Hamas think that after massacring 1,200 people, taking more than 250 hostages, burning people alive, videotaping it and posting it online, Israel would send over a fruit basket?
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To have people waving flags of designated terrorist organizations with the World Trade Center in the background shows how far down we have come.”