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FIRST CEASEFIRE, THEN PALESTINIAN LIBERATION; NEXT DAY NETANYAHU
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Jewish Voice for Peace and Al Jazeera and News Agencies
January 16, 2025
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_ Yesterday, a ceasefire and peace agreement was reached between
Hamas and the Israeli government, which has been supported and armed
by the United States. Today Benjamin Netanyahu said he would not send
the peace agreement to a vote in the Cabinet, _

Thousands of Palestinians celebrated on January 15 as news spread
that a ceasefire and captive release deal had been reached between
Israel and Hamas, aimed at halting more than 15 months of war in the
Palestinian territory , [Photo: Bashar Taleb/Agence France-Presse
(AFP) // Al Jazeera]

 

* First Ceasefire, Then Palestinian Liberation 

Jewish Voice for Peace statement
January 15, 2025
Jewish Voice for Peace

* Israel’s Netanyahu Says No Vote On Gaza Truce Until Hamas
Accepts Terms

Al Jazeera and News Agencies
January 16, 2025
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FIRST CEASEFIRE, THEN PALESTINIAN LIBERATION 
Jewish Voice for Peace statement

January 15, 2025
Jewish Voice for Peace
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Today, after 15 months of the Israeli government’s genocide of
Palestinians in Gaza, supported and enabled by the U.S. government, a
42-day ceasefire agreement was reported. We hold tightly to the hope
of a halt to the Israeli military’s bombardments, an end to the
starvation of Palestinians by the Israeli government, a beginning of
rebuilding in Gaza, and the return of hostages held in Israel and in
Gaza to their families. 

The coming days and weeks during this fragile ceasefire will be
critical for the Palestine solidarity movement to turn this temporary
agreement into a full halt of the genocide, including the unrestricted
flow of humanitarian aid and an end to the Israeli military occupation
and siege of Gaza. Since the Israeli government’s genocide began,
over 47,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military —
a severe undercount, with some estimations as high as hundreds of
thousands. The Israeli military has devastated entire neighborhoods
and cities, and has razed the centuries-old infrastructure of
Palestinian life, decimating Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure, water
supplies, electricity grid, schools, universities and cultural
institutions. 

We mourn each and every precious life lost. As Jews, we know that the
trauma of this campaign of annihilation will unfold for generations. 

As Americans, we understand that the Israeli genocide has been carried
out with U.S. bombs, U.S. funds, and U.S.-facilitated impunity — we
continue to demand a full weapons embargo now. We also demand an end
to the complicity of corporations that profit from genocide. Left in
the hands of the U.S. and Israeli governments, weapons manufacturers,
and warmongering institutions, this fragile respite will not mean an
end to Israeli genocide or to the violent status quo of Israeli
apartheid.

It is up to all of us to ensure that this temporary agreement is only
a beginning. Every day of the last 467 days, millions of people around
the world have come together to demand an end to the genocide and
Palestinian freedom. Together, we must ensure this agreement becomes a
step on the path toward Palestinian liberation — the only way to
achieve a just peace for all.

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Zionism. With roughly 750,000 members, supporters, and participants in
the last year, JVP is the largest such organization in the
world. ] _

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ISRAEL’S NETANYAHU SAYS NO VOTE ON GAZA TRUCE UNTIL HAMAS ACCEPTS
TERMS

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has threatened to quit the
government if it approves the Gaza true deal.

Al Jazeera and News Agencies

January 16, 2025
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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his cabinet will
not meet to vote on the Gaza ceasefire deal
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mediators notify Israel that Hamas has accepted all elements of the
agreement”.

The Israeli cabinet had been set to meet on Thursday morning to ratify
the deal, with the ceasefire scheduled to take effect from Sunday, but
Netanyahu said the meeting would not take place.

“Hamas reneges on parts of the agreement reached with the mediators
and Israel in an effort to extort last minute concessions,” a
statement from Netanyahu said. “The Israeli cabinet will not convene
until the mediators notify Israel that Hamas has accepted all elements
of the agreement.”

Following the Israeli announcement, senior Hamas official Izzat
al-Risheq said in a statement that the Palestinian group was committed
to the ceasefire agreement announced by mediators on Wednesday.

Later on Thursday, Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar
Ben-Gvir said he would resign from the government if it ratifies the
ceasefire deal in Gaza, which he has strongly opposed.

“The deal that is taking shape is a reckless deal,” Gvir said in a
televised statement, adding it would “erase the achievements of the
war” by releasing hundreds of Palestinian fighters and withdrawing
from strategic areas in Gaza, leaving Hamas undefeated.

“If this irresponsible deal is approved and implemented, we the
members of Jewish Power will submit letters of resignation to the
prime minister,” he said.

Ben-Gvir also called for a “complete stop” to all humanitarian aid
for Gaza, including fuel, electricity and water, until all captives
are released.

The minister, whose departure would not bring down Netanyahu’s
government, has also urged far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich
to join him in resigning if the deal is approved by the cabinet.

Smotrich has described the deal as a “catastrophe” for Israel’s
national security and his Religious Zionist Party has threatened to
quit the government if it does not go back to war with Hamas after the
first six-week phase of the ceasefire is completed.

Earlier, several Israeli families, together with supporters, staged a
sit-in in front of Netanyahu’s office, calling for the cabinet to
not sign the prisoner exchange deal with Hamas.

“Do not sign a deal that means surrender, sacrificing the remaining
kidnapped and giving up Israel’s security,” said Yehoshua Shani,
the father of Israeli Army Captain Uri Shani, who was killed during
the fighting.

“Come here before the cabinet meeting, and join us to ask the prime
minister to stop and not sign a surrender deal with Hamas.”

Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut, reporting from Amman, said there
weren’t “any sort of leaks about Hamas going back” on what they
agreed upon in the ceasefire deal
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“What we are seeing rather is the internal conflict within
Netanyahu’s government, specifically among the Religious Zionist
Party,” she said.

“This is Smotrich’s party. He has been threatening to bolt the
coalition if this deal came to a vote, saying this was a bad deal for
Israel and that his party would need guarantees that Israel will go
back to all-out fighting … after the initial phase [of the
agreement].”

Netanyahu has faced growing domestic pressure to bring home the scores
of captives in Gaza, but his far-right coalition partners have
threatened to quit his government if he makes too many concessions.

Israeli centrist opposition leader Yair Lapid called on Netanyahu not
to back out of the ceasefire deal, reiterating his commitment to
supporting the agreement.

The Israeli outlet Haaretz reported that the Israeli security cabinet
will now “convene to approve the Gaza ceasefire deal on Friday
morning”, citing a senior Israeli source.

“After the security cabinet meeting, the cabinet is expected to vote
on the deal. Israeli ministers have not yet been summoned to discuss
the deal,” Haaretz reported.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday also expressed
confidence that the agreement would go into effect on Sunday.

“I am confident, and I fully expect that implementation will begin,
as we said, on Sunday,” Blinken told a news conference in
Washington, DC.

Attacks on Gaza continue

Meanwhile, Israeli forces intensified their bombardment across the
Gaza Strip, with at least 81 people killed in the past 24 hours, the
Gaza Health Ministry said on Thursday.

Another 200 were wounded, the ministry added.

In one attack, two people were killed and six injured after Israeli
forces targeted a school sheltering displaced people in the Zeitoun
neighbourhood, south of Gaza City, the Palestinian Civil Defence said.

One deadly Israeli attack following the announcement of the ceasefire
deal killed 20 Palestinians in Jabalia, northern Gaza.

Gaza’s Civil Defence said that in the an-Nazla area of Jabalia, the
victims included two children and two women.

“As we were celebrating the ceasefire announcement, the Israeli
warplanes took us by surprise. I woke up to find myself lying in
hospital with head injuries,” a boy with a bandaged head told Al
Jazeera’s Ibrahim al-Khalili at the site of the attack.

“All my brothers and my aunts were killed. I miraculously survived
as a Civil Defence member pulled me from under the rubble.”

Abdullah Khadr told Al Jazeera that his family had gathered to hear
the ceasefire announcement.

“As I was about to sleep, I heard a loud explosion. I ran out to
find the whole building next to me levelled to the ground; nothing but
rubble, dust and smoke rising to the dark skies,” he said.

“I heard screams from under the concrete ruins. Some Civil Defence
members rushed to our help, and with our bare hands managed to pull
out the dead and a few survivors.”

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 46,788 people and wounded
110,453 since October 7, 2023, according to Palestinian health
authorities.

Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies

 
Wounded people, including children, are brought to the Al-Aqsa
Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, Gaza, following attacks in the
early hours of Thursday  

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