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Hamas Hesitates on Peace Deal
As a shaky, tentative peace continues to unfold in the Middle East, Hamas appears not to be fulfilling its end of the arrangement. A member of the terrorist group spoke to Reuters on Friday to address, among other things, why the group carried out public executions in Gaza last week.
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From the Daily Wire:
Reuters sat down with senior Hamas member Mohammed Nazzal in Doha, Qatar, where senior Hamas leaders have long enjoyed safe haven. Nazzal said that the executions that took place on Monday were part of “exceptional measures” taken during war. At least seven men were shot in the back of the head in front of a crowd in Gaza after Hamas accused them of conspiring with Israel. Nazzal said the executed men were “criminals guilty of killing.”
Nazzal added that Hamas would like to see a ceasefire last between three and five years, so that Gaza can be rebuilt, Reuters reported. He added that after the rebuilding, Palestinians should be given “horizons and hope” for statehood.
Asked about Nazzal’s comments, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office told Reuters, “Hamas is supposed to release all hostages in stage 1. It has not. Hamas knows where the bodies of our hostages are. Hamas are to be disarmed under this agreement. No ifs, no buts. They have not. Hamas need to adhere to the 20-point plan. They are running out of time.”
These comments came mere hours after President Trump threatened the terrorist group. In a statement on Friday, he clarified that, if Hamas does not stop killing people, “we will have no choice but to go in and kill them.” He later clarified that he was not planning to send U.S. troops to take care of Hamas, but that “somebody will go in” to stamp out the terrorist group.
Phase one of President Trump’s Israel-Hamas peace plan, which the Daily Wire notes both parties agreed to last week, required Hamas to hand over all remaining living and deceased hostages. Thus far Hamas has freed the remaining living hostages, but it has failed to locate and hand over the bodies of the deceased.
The next phase of the peace plan would require Hamas to lay down its weapons and relinquish control of Gaza. As the Daily Wire puts it, it appears that Hamas currently has “no desire to see the next phase of the peace plan come to fruition.”
The situation may seem dire, but we worship and serve the God of the impossible. Let’s pray for a lasting peace in the Middle East that protects Israel and honors the Lord!
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(Excerpt from the Daily Wire. Photo Credit: Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
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Perhaps Hamas do not dare hand over the remains of the dead Israeli hostages for fear this will forensically prove the details of the means of their killings to the entire World ?
Another thought – were the seven public executions a few days ago the killing of Hamas members who had agreed to “Peace with Israel” ?
Hamas has never been known for “Peace”.
Ephesians 6: 10
Finally, my brethren, be.strong in the Lord and the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle, not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spirtual wickedness in high places. Where fore take unto you the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness: And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace,Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
Jesus, we ask for your will to be done. Jesus sees into the hearts of the wicked. Jesus knows what you are thinking before you talk. So we pray that Jesus will move exceedingly, extraordinary, extravagantly, and abundantly, and that Isreal will do whatever Jesus’s will is. God bless Isreal, protect Israel, and may the Holy Spirit move , NOW!!! in Jesus’s name Amen
GOD, we ask You to dismantle evilness that Hamas is not agreeing to do. The evilness of the Hamas to dismantle their agreement of their systems renderes ineffective to those who oppose You President Trump. With the keys of GODS kingdom we now bind every attempt to stop this divine shift, in the mighty name of cJesus. PRAISE GOD
In Scripture, through GOD’S instructions, Samuel told Saul to “kill” all of the enemy and to not leave anyone alive, including animals. Saul disobeyed and was stripped of his Kingship by GOD through Samuel. I haven’t heard anyone say so yet, but Hamas is an evil terrorist group that is hellish and I believe the only way for peace is to destroy the entire evil hamas group. Every last one of them! FATHER GOD I pray YOUR Will be done regarding this Hamas regime. Please give President Netanyahu clear instructions as to what to do now. YOUR Will not mine be done, in JESUS MIGHTY NAME! Amen!
Dear Roberta, thank you for STANDING with YESHUA’s INHERITANCE LAND of Israel. Indeed, in ALL of Scripture, YHWH NEVER EVER makes “ceasefires”; and certainly NOT with “workers of Hamas-violence”. Exactly as you mentioned–He ROUTS HIS ENEMIES, especially the “workers of violence” (in Hebrew the word for violence is HAMAS) (Gen. 3:6)–and they oppose the UNILATERAL, EVERLASTING ABRAHAMIC COVENANT. Saul REFUSED to LISTEN and OBEY. So, God ordained that Esther would complete the task. She completed the required task–thru intense prayer and fasting and was given SUPERNATURAL COUNSEL and GOD ROUTED Haman and his 10 sons in the Scroll of Esther. And, because “YHWH CHANGES NOT” (Mal. 3:6), and “because He repeats what He has done that mankind may stand in AWE of HIM” (Eccl. 1,3) in 1946, YHWH repeated this template and He ROUTED the Amalekite “Mastermind of the Final Solution” (modern Haman) and his 10 accomplishes (modern day Hamans 10 sons). They were HUNG ON PURIM 1946.
Many aspects of this recent “false peace deal” are in DIRECT OPPOSITION to SCRIPTURE. You cannot “make deals with terrorists” just as as you CANNOT make deals with demons. The American government has placed enormous and unbiblical pressure on the Israeli government – but please NOTICE that TRUMP accepted a fancy plane and a 5.5 billion dollar TRUMP QATARI Golf Course. This is a blatant CONFLICT OF INTEREST because the HAMAS TERRORIST LEADERSHIP LIVED in QATAR during the war. And now, America has an executive order–linking our nation to protect QATAR-the NATION THAT PROTECTED TERRORIST LEADERSHIP! I would NEVER have voted for him had I known how much he would favor Muslims. Did you notice he “went down to Egypt” to finalize the deal. READ JER. 31–the WOE statement of those who trust in Egypt and DO NOT INQUIRE OF YHWH.
I choose to BLESS ISRAEL because I KNOW YESHUA is COMING BACK for that Holy Hill to rule and reign! (Gen. 12:3, Numbers 24:9, PSALM 99, Psalm 2). As a Christian ISAIAH 62 WATCHMAN on the WALL, may I please make a suggestion, Roberta? If you want to pursue excellent, “boots on the ground” VERY STRATEGIC PRAYER POINTS that are not “watered down with a modern Western cherry picking perspective”, then please allow me to recommend “INTERCESSORS for ISRAEL” which is a highly respected and very knowledgeable site to help GLOBAL WATCHMEN know HOW TO PRAY SCRIPTURALLY and PROPHETICALLY and STAND in UNITY (Ps.133, Joshua 24:15, Gen. 12:3, Numbers 24:9) with the beautiful ONE NEW MAN EKKLESIA (Messianic Jews, Arabic Christians and the International Christians who are stationed in Israel to help support the Israeli Ekklesia
with the harvest). As a Jewish Believer in Messiah, Chuck Cohen releases NEW PRAYER POINTS with “boots on the ground counsel and intel” EACH
FRIDAY. These prayer points help us to NOT approach Israel from a Western, modernist, secular-humanist perspective–but purely from a
BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE. “LIGHT of ZION” with a husband and wife intercessory team of Sandra and Kerry Templinsky, who moved from America to Israel, is also another fabulous WATCHMAN’s Intercessory Network. It is also global in scale (although it was first launched to help the Israeli Believers begin to cry out “Baruch Habba B’Shem Adonai!”(Blessed is He Who COMES in the NAME of YHWH!”)—but it has GROWN as Global Watchmen sought ACCURATE INTEL on which to base our intercessions. They send out newsletters with very precise prayer points as well. They are incredibly lovely people and it is obvious why Yeshua chose them to build up an intercessory network in The Land.
Much of what is happening and HAS happened is NOT covered in America, and certainly not on “pro-Trump” websites, I have found this website AVOIDS many things which would hold a certain person accountable (ex: the pdf files–human trafficking is “not a hoax”). Our FIRST AND FOREMOST LOYALTY MUST BE TO CHRIST. (Rev. 2). If your focus is ON JUST SERVING OUR SOON COMING KING in a Spirit of Excellence like Daniel, Esther, Joshua, Caleb, Joseph, Deborah, Abigail, and the Apostles and Disciples–I think you will find the two aforementioned sites VERY HELPFUL. May you be BLESSED for speaking the TRUTH–for indeed Yeshua is gathering the Zech 12 nations who come against His People and HIS LAND. But for those who stand as “ONE NEW MAN with ISRAEL” He is blessing us to BUILD UP THE COMING KINGDOM (Exodus 12:48, Ruth 1:16-17, Ruth 2:12, Judges 7–pick UP the left behind provisions and the left behind shofars and KEEP ADVANCING!, Romans 9-11, Eph. 2, Ezk. 47:21-23, Ps. 45, Ps. 68, Prov. 31, Ps. 144, Ps. 149, Rev. 7, 14, 15, 19).
PEACE be with you, sister!
Excellent!!!