Auburn Tigers men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl posted a fiery message on social media Sunday in response to a video that appeared to show Hamas terrorists handing over three Israeli hostages to the Red Cross.
The video showed the hostages moving from one vehicle to the next amid a large crowd of Hamas militants holding weapons and shouting “Allah Akbar”. Gunmen then stood on top of the vehicle.
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Bruce Pearl (Dale Zanine-Imagn Photos)
Pearl didn’t seem pleased.
“This is what giving the Palestinians self-government looks like. Does it look like they want peace?” he wrote on X. “They made war, murdered and raped, built tunnels and hid under their people, fired rockets from living rooms, then screamed genocide. RELEASES HOSTAGES NOW, then live in peace or leave town.”
Pearl is not one to back down from her support for Israel. He has been among the most outspoken sports figures on the subject.
Israel’s cabinet approved an agreement early Saturday morning on a cease-fire in Gaza that will include the release of dozens of hostages and end the war with Hamas that began after the terrorist group’s attack on the Jewish state on October 7, 2023.
Former British-Israeli hostage Emily Damari and her mother, Mandy, hold a video call with Emily’s brother, Tom Damari, and other loved ones on the day Emily was released from captivity in a hostage-prisoner deal between Hamas and Israel on the 19th. January. , 2025.
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The deal will allow 33 hostages to be released over the next six weeks in exchange for hundreds of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel. The remaining hostages are set to be released in a second phase that will be negotiated during the first.
Hamas agreed to release three female hostages on the first day of the deal, four on the seventh day and the remaining 26 over the next five weeks.
Hamas has said it will not release the remaining hostages without a lasting ceasefire and a complete Israeli withdrawal.
A terrorist from Hamas participates in a military parade. (Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/File)
The 15-month war in Gaza started when Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people and abducting around 250 others, prompting military retaliation by Israeli forces. Nearly 100 hostages remain trapped in Gaza.
