[IMPORTANT] Hamas launches foot assault against settlements.

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I'm not a journalist but I am yet to see a single Palestinian on camera show remorse over the Oct 7 attacks.

GAZA/TEL AVIV, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Israel's government and Hamas agreed on Wednesday to a four-day pause in fighting to allow the release of 50 hostages held in Gaza in exchange for 150 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel, and the entry of humanitarian aid into the besieged enclave.

Officials from Qatar, which has been mediating secret negotiations, as well as the U.S., Israel and Hamas have for days been saying a deal was imminent.

Hamas is believed to be holding more than 200 hostages, taken when its fighters surged into Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 people, according to Israeli tallies.

A statement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said 50 women and children will be released over four days, during which there will be a pause in fighting.

For every additional 10 hostages released, the pause would be extended by another day, it said, without mentioning the release of Palestinian prisoners in exchange.

"Israel's government is committed to return all the hostages home. Tonight, it approved the proposed deal as a first stage to achieving this goal," said the statement, released after hours of deliberation that were closed to the press.

Hamas said the 50 hostages would be released in exchange for 150 Palestinian women and children who are held in Israeli jails. The truce deal will also allow hundreds of trucks of humanitarian, medical and fuel aid to enter Gaza, the Palestinian group said in a statement.

Israel had committed not to attack or arrest anyone in all parts of Gaza during the truce period, it added.

U.S. President Joe Biden said he welcomed the deal. "Today’s deal should bring home additional American hostages, and I will not stop until they are all released," he said in a statement.

The Qatar government said 50 civilian women and children hostages would be released from Gaza in exchange for the release "of a number of Palestinian women and children held in Israeli prisons".

The starting time of the truce would be announced within the next 24 hours, it said in a statement.

The accord is the first truce of a war in which Israeli bombardments have flattened swathes of Hamas-ruled Gaza, killed 13,300 civilians in the tiny densely populated enclave and left about two-thirds of its 2.3 million people homeless, according to authorities in Gaza.

But Netanyahu said Israel's broader mission was unchanged.

"We are at war and we will continue the war until we achieve all our goals. To destroy Hamas, return all our hostages and ensure that no entity in Gaza can threaten Israel," he said in a recorded message at the start of the government meeting.

Hamas said in its statement: "As we announce the striking of a truce agreement, we affirm that our fingers remain on the trigger, and our victorious fighters will remain on the look out to defend our people and defeat the occupation."

Or a single Christian show remourse for their religion's long history of burning certain people alive at the stake.

I spent a lot of time around Palestinians in the 1990s who were given special visas to live in Malaysia (a muslim country) after each Arab-Israeli conflict when I was there. Of the original number who were granted visas the vast majority left to go back to the middle east.

Speaking to those who were left, there was unanimous desire to get revenge on Israel. Frankly a lot of their gripes made sense to me as they were dispossessed. One man who I was close to said his father lost all their land near Jerusalem in 1948. In the 1990s he and others pooled money/cash and donated to groups in Palestine. I never asked if they were militant but since other dispossessed communities I knew did just that! Tamils from Sri Lanka crowd funded (before the internet) militant groups in Sri Lanka perpetuating the civil war. Kurdish expatriates sent money to the Kurdistan liberation movement, And of course famously, the IRA were funded by Irish people.

The question of whether civilians who either they (or their parents/grand parents) lost everything in a civil war have the right to celebrate when (they perceive) their perpatrators are attacked is a difficult one.

I myself have yet to see a single American show remourse for nuking Japan.

but seeing them celebrate and cheer at the atrocities really saps me of any sympathy I may have had for them.

The point? Remourse isnt exactly something that the majority of humans are known for when dealing with their enemies during times of war.

[The world won't intervene in any real fashion, they just get on places like this and scream genocide. And expect Israel to carry out some sort of mediocre war, so that in 20 years 1,200 people can get shot to bits AGAIN. Enough already, somebody put an end to it once and for all.

Thats what did it for me.

Thats what did it for me.

Also, it might be a topic better suited to PPR.

But...but...but.. it's breaking news so it fits the right forum

I wasn't responding to you but to the person above me with that comment. I probably should've formatted it differently.