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Hamas wants 'prisoners in US released' in exchange for Israeli hostages
www.express.co.uk ^ | 16:25, Tue, Oct 10, 2023 | UPDATED: 17:18, Tue, Oct 10, 2023 | By MATTHEW DOOLEY

Posted on 10/10/2023 12:14:59 PM PDT by Red Badger

Hamas has said it will execute hostages if Israel bombs residential areas with out warning. Now they have issued more demands for their release.

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Hamas wants US prisoners freed alongside those in Israel as part of a deal the terrorist group could make to release dozens of hostages taken to Gaza.

An exiled Hamas leader in Lebanon, Ali Barakeh, said that the group would aim to secure the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli and American prisons. He has been the group's leader in Lebanon for years and is in charge of coordinating other Palestinian groups there.

Without specifying who, he said: "There are Palestinians held in America. We will ask for their release."

In 2009, a court in Dallas sentenced two founding members of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, once the largest US Muslim charity, to 65 years in prison for funneling millions of dollars to Hamas.

Three other men were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 15 to 20 years for conspiracy.

Barakeh added: "We have prepared well for this war and to deal with all scenarios, even the scenario of the long war. We will bring life to a stop in the Zionist entity if the aggression does not stop on Gaza."

Barakeh said Hamas has so far employed only a small number of its own forces. He said nearly 2,000 Hamas fighters have taken part in the latest fighting, out of an army of 40,000 in Gaza alone.

Hamas may also be able to count on its allies if it faces a major setback. On Sunday, Hezbollah fired several rockets and shells at three Israeli positions in a disputed area.

On Monday, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group claimed it sent four gunmen across Lebanon’s border into Israel.

The militants said they had wounded seven Israeli soldiers. Israel said its own forces shot and killed several gunmen who crossed into the country from Lebanon. It also shelled southern Lebanon in response.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alibarakeh; barakat; barakeh; buckeyejihad; clevelandcell; hezbollah; hlf; hlfrd; holylandfoundation; islamicjihad; lebanon; pij; safagroup; terrorcharities
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To: Red Badger

Hamas isn’t in the position to be giving any orders they have a DOA poster on them.


61 posted on 10/10/2023 2:19:35 PM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Red Badger

We shouldn’t negotiate with them.
It won’t end well.


62 posted on 10/10/2023 2:32:01 PM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: Salman

“This may be an indication that the attacks were planned by Hamas partisans in the USA.”

Whether or not this is true, there is now open war against the USA, which the terrorists are quite explicitly and vociferously joining at the hip with Israel.

I worry in the here and now about the homeland. Without overreacting along any dimension, we need quietly to raise our own alert level to its maximum.


63 posted on 10/10/2023 2:43:22 PM PDT by drellberg
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To: Red Badger

“Hamas wants ‘prisoners in US released’ in exchange for Israeli hostages”

Hey, you can have them.

If you agree to take in a few million migrants as well.


64 posted on 10/10/2023 3:22:38 PM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: Red Badger

HAMAS is in the Bible!
(violence, H2555) H2555 ‫חָמָס‬ (ḥāmās) - violence; - by implication, wrong; - by meton. unjust gain; Etymology: from H2554; KJV: cruel(-ty), damage, false, injustice, X oppressor, unrighteous, violence (against, done), violent (dealing), wrong.


65 posted on 10/10/2023 3:41:06 PM PDT by RaceBannon (Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for )
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To: Red Badger
WE have an Islamic terrorist sitting on death row. I believe his name is Nadal Hasan. We need to set his execution for tonight, force-feed him a thick pork sausage until he chokes to death, load his carcass onto cargo aircraft with twenty male pigs and forty female pigs. They cargo plane is flying to Gaza, aircraft from the Ford and ships form is support group need to pulverize everything within two miles of Yasir Ar-a-fag (or should that place now becalled Was-a-fag as he is long dead of AIDS?) but not the airport itself. The cargo plane should have top cover as it lands, opens the back hatch, releases the pigs onto the tarmac, and tosses the nude body of the late terrorist onto the tarmac. Then the cargo aircraft should take off. Let the Hamas pigs deal with the pig fat encrusted Hasan and the pigs which will go feral and really give the Gazans problems for years to come.
66 posted on 10/10/2023 4:29:09 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: NorthMountain

Do those palescumians include Ill Hand Omar or Trashida Tlaib? By all means, return them to their homeland: from 30,000 feet.


67 posted on 10/10/2023 8:10:03 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Red Badger
The current ransom for an American prisoner is $1.2 billion each.
The world knows this is the opening ask.
68 posted on 10/10/2023 8:11:57 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

How much does a MOAB cost? Pay them in MOABs.


69 posted on 10/10/2023 8:14:11 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: EinNYC

Omar is Somalian so she doesn’t qualify. Tlaib, OTOH ...


70 posted on 10/10/2023 8:21:24 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Red Badger

Dust off a few of those old “daisy cutters” and move ‘em out. It’ll take the wind right out of their sails.


71 posted on 10/11/2023 2:43:58 AM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: antidemoncrat

There’s MORE?!?


72 posted on 10/11/2023 5:24:04 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: rfp1234

thanks for the reminder about Joe Biden liberating Viktor Bout, merchant of death.


73 posted on 10/11/2023 12:35:06 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: BobL

The war in Ukraine was started by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Fact: Ukraine did not invade Russia.


74 posted on 10/11/2023 12:40:54 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: central_va

We will contract delivery with the Chilean AF.


My first thought...


75 posted on 10/11/2023 12:44:17 PM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: piasa

“The war in Ukraine was started by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Fact: Ukraine did not invade Russia.”

Oh well, I guess Russia will now have to finish this war. Sorry for the bad news.


76 posted on 10/11/2023 2:37:14 PM PDT by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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