Hamas Spurns Safe Passage Offer

"I'm ready to provide safe passage to Sinwar, his family, whoever wants to join  him."

"We want the hostages back. We want demilitarization, de-radicalization of course -- a new system that will manage Gaza."

"In parallel, I must work on plan B, C and D because we must bring the hostages back home. The clock is ticking, the hostages do not have time."

"There will be a price for these murders [hostage deaths]."

Gal Hirsch, Israel's hostage envoy

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was one of the masterminds of the October 7 attacks and is thought to be living in a network of tunnels under Gaza. AFP

 

"I see how the Saudis and other moderate Arab states, including potentially Indonesia and others, are waiting to have a window of opportunity to enter and expand the Abraham Accords -- we bless it."

"It's in our best interest, it's in their best interest, it's in America's best interest to align with the moderate Arab states."

Israeli Economy Minister Nir Barkat

In exchange for freeing the hostages held by Hamas, and surrendering control of the Gaza Strip, Israel has proposed to Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar a guaranteed safe passage out of Gaza. This, as the ongoing attempts at a ceasefire accord have accomplished nothing; Hamas may be on its back foot as a consequence of its attack on southern Israel's farming communities on October 7 but it still feels entitled to control all the points of any agreement with Israel for a ceasefire, prepared to negotiate no concessions beyond its own demands.

In response to which Israel's chief envoy representing the Jewish state's commitment to rescuing its citizens from the talons of the terrorists who succeeded in that facet of their orders beyond committing mass rape, plunder, destruction and the bloodlust of savage mass murders, to round up and abduct some 250 Israeli children, elderly, entire families and IDF soldiers to be used as bait and exchange for Palestinian criminals and terrorists in Israeli prisons.

The offer of safe passage for the mastermind of the sadistic terrorism that rocked Israel eleven months ago leading to the Israeli military's invasion of Gaza for the stated purpose of obliterating the threat of any further Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israel, has had an expected response. It was turned down. Perhaps it occurs to Sinwar and his close colleagues that the offer has a limited guarantee; once safely out of Gaza, they will be hunted and the accountability they bear for the unspeakable massacre of Jews number the days of their existence.

They shouldn't mind that, however, since their boast of loving, not fearing death, as a heroic sacrifice to their 'cause' and to Islam glorifies martyrdom, as an achievement by the faithful to the greater glory of Islam demonstrating the proud heritage of self-destruction while in the process of committing mass murder of an 'enemy' and none so aptly earn that description as do Jews, perfidious and dangerous to Islam, whom the faithful aspire to destroy in honour of their Prophet who invited Jewish tribes to convert only to be shunned and refused.

 

Six Israeli captives were found dead at the end of August, re-energizing the protest movement calling for a hostage deal  The National

 

Although the hostage envoy made the offer of safe passage it has a limited life. Gal Hirsch knows with whom he is dealing, a fanatic mind so steeped in Jew-hate he could only be compared to Hitler, for each of them devised a 'final solution' for Jews. Safe passage aside, once a temporary agreement had been accomplished, Hirsch envisions a "Munich-type response" targeting those who executed six Israeli hostages last month; alluding to the assassination of those involved in the deaths of 11 Israeli athletes in 1972 at the Munich Olympics.

Previously, Prime Minister Netanyahu had stated that the solution of exile "is there, we have always discussed it, but I think the most important thing is that they surrender. If they lay down their arms, the war is over".

Details emerged of the captivity conditions of the six executed hostages, of the tunnel in which they were imprisoned; a space some100 yards in length and five feet in height. "Very humid and hard to breathe in", described Israel Defense spokesman Daniel Hagari. A makeshift toilet was discovered alongside bottles of urine, mattresses, energy bars and tuna fish tins where the hostages had lived in a cramped space for months. Hostages known to have protected each other before they were shot.

Despite the deadly turmoil and ongoing attacks against Israel by Hamas operatives, by Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, border skirmishes from Jordan and the maritime shipping threats of the Yemeni Houthis, all orchestrated by the Islamic Republic of Iran, Israel remains invested in normalizing diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia and other Arab states, expanding the Abraham Accords when ties were established with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and tentative overtures to others.

Tunnel where six Israeli hostages were found killed seen in this still image taken from a handout video released on September 10, 2024. Israeli Army/Handout via REUTERS