How many hostages has Hamas released today?

“After negotiations, Israel has agreed to the initial withdrawal line, which we have shown to, and shared with, Hamas. When Hamas confirms, the Ceasefire will be IMMEDIATELY effective, the Hostages and Prisoner Exchange will begin, and we will create the conditions for the next phase of withdrawal, which will bring us close to the end of this 3,000 YEAR CATASTROPHE. Thank you for your attention to this matter and, STAY TUNED!“

Truth Social post by Trump a few minutes ago

I was told that was supposed to have happened on January 21.

Why do the Palestinians still have hostages?

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will bring us close to the end of this 3,000 YEAR CATASTROPHE

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Only one thing is going to end that catastrophe.

You think this speaks poorly towards President Trump? You’re letting Hamas off the hook, the ones who started this whole mess, because you think it’s cute to score political brownie points with your comments?

By all means, keep it up. You are the reason why Trump won.

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Why do the Palestinians still have hostages?

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Because biden gave them a shite ton of money.

This money allowed multiple things to happen.

Most importantly it made the leaders of hamas wealthier. I couldn't say it made them wealthy because they were already worth billions.

The second thing is it made many in hamas wealthy.

The third thing it did was reinforce the notion that if hamas kept fighting and you weren't killed, you could be wealthy beyond your dreams simply by stealing the aid money.

The fourth thing it did was some of it get sent back to democrats. Some of all the money spent almost everywhere gets sent back to them.

Numbers 5 through ten are all make amas wealthy again or MAWA. I can't call it hamas because you can't pronounce mhwa...

Numbers 11 through 40 was is the money to build terror tunnels, aquire weapons, build rocks and bombs and so forth. Now while this spasms numbers 11 through forty, you need to understand the majority of the money was already stolen so we are dealing with less than half the aid money.

Now number 41 through 50 was the very important make amas wives happy again. Again can't say hamas for same reason as before. But happy wife happy life holds true everywhere.

I'm guessing there are about 50 others things money was stolen for.

The most important of all reasons in 101. Who am I kidding. It really isn't important at all. But this is aid for people in the Gaza strip. Everyone knows almost none of the aid money gets used for the actual reason for it.

But Al that money pouring in is why hamas still had hostages.

They will be releasing the hostages because of Trump.

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end of this 3,000 YEAR CATASTROPHE.

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The Palestinians haven't been around for 3,000 years.

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The Palestinians haven't been around for 3,000 years.

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I'm gonna go ahead and cut off a potential retort to the above truth .... before someone even tries to make the claim:

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No, modern Palestinians are not the same people as the ancient Philistines, nor are they their direct descendants.
The Philistines were a non-Semitic, sea-faring people of likely Aegean (Greek or Cretan) origin who settled along the southern coast of Canaan during the Late Bronze Age collapse, around 1200 BCE.
They are described in biblical texts as the enemies of the Israelites and were eventually conquered and assimilated by the Neo-Babylonians around 604 BCE, after which their distinct culture and identity disappeared from history.

The name "Palestine" was adopted by the Romans in the 2nd century CE, following the suppression of the Bar Kokhba Revolt, as a deliberate act to erase Jewish connections to the land. They renamed the region "Syria Palaestina" (later "Palaestina"), using the term derived from "Philistines" because the Romans were familiar with the ancient coastal people, who were historically viewed as the arch-enemies of the Jews.
This renaming had no basis in ethnic continuity but was a political and symbolic gesture.

Modern Palestinians are primarily of Arab descent, with genetic and cultural roots tracing back to the ancient Canaanite populations of the Levant, as well as later Arab migrations from the Arabian Peninsula.
Genetic studies indicate that Palestinians cluster closely with other Levantine populations, including Bedouins, Jordanians, and Saudis, supporting a common origin in the ancient Levant rather than a connection to the Philistines.
While there may be a very minor genetic contribution from ancient populations due to millennia of mixing, this does not constitute a meaningful ethnic or cultural link to the Philistines.

In summary, the similarity in names is coincidental and stems from the Roman adoption of the term "Philistine" to name the region, not from any shared ancestry.
Modern Palestinians are ethnically and culturally distinct from the ancient Philistines.

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