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Things seem to have moved after the Cabinet meeting this morning, but there are some pretty big caveats:

[The announcement] will stipulate the need for the release of all the hostages still held by Hamas and be based on a guarantee the terror group no longer rules Gaza, sources say.

Also made me wonder how Starmer's conversation with Trump went yesterday. Not good?

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[–] socialsecurity@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago (5 children)
[–] frankPodmore@slrpnk.net 0 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I mean, as I said elsewhere, there's plenty to get annoyed about without also imagining new things. If an organisation kidnaps a bunch of civilians with a view to using them for extortion, those captives are hostages, and it is different to when even that very same organisation captures soldiers in a war, because those captives are POWs. Words do actually have a meaning! Not every usage of words is a matter of some overarching nefariousness!

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Abducting people without any demands from the captors is worse

[–] frankPodmore@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 days ago

Yes, that's what I said in the comment you're replying to.

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