The so-called ceasefire in Gaza is on the brink of collapse. And the reason it's going to collapse

is because of what I just said. This is a so-called ceasefire because Israel has systematically

violated the terms of that ceasefire. U.S. President Donald Trump has declared that if all

Israeli hostages aren't released this Saturday, then quote-unquote, all hell will break loose.

It comes to the context of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is an international fugitive sought by the

International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, has made it clear,

in the clearest possible terms, repeatedly, that he wishes to resume his murderous onslaught

against Gaza.

It comes at the additional context of President Trump, making it clear he did not believe

the ceasefire would last, and repeatedly endorsing the illegal annexation of Gaza by the United

States of America and the forcible permanent removal of its entire population, an act of ethnic cleansing,

which would constitute a crime against humanity and be innately genocidal in method and in outcome.

Let's discuss what's happened.

Hamas has announced that it is delaying the release of Israeli hostages indefinitely because of

alleged Israeli violations of the ceasefire.

And when I say alleged, they're real.

We're going about that. That ceasefire has held for three weeks and was greeted with

jubilation and exhilaration by a traumatized Palestinian population. We met in the first phase

of that ceasefire deal due to last 42 days, with the second phase in which the remaining

Israeli hostages are released, as well as Palestinian detainees,

many of them in practice hostages seized without trial or charge by the Israeli state and

subjected to hideous torture, rape, dozens of them torture and rape to death, all of that

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