Do you think Hamas holds its weapons in its hands, that you should take them?

It was evident that at the very moment genocidal Israel was signing the agreement within the framework of the Trump plan, preparations to violate it were being made simultaneously. Israel has so far had no tradition, aptitude or habit of abiding by any agreement. Even when it sits down at a negotiating table out of necessity, under pressure from within or without, it does not feel bound by the promises it has given. It is a terrible character, and when power falls into its hands it becomes extremely dangerous for humanity. We see over and over again, continually, today this trait mentioned about them in the Noble Qur'an. Since they do not read the Qur'an and are not affected by it, we cannot of course say that the Qur'an's description of them determines their behavior. After all, definitions do influence a person's behavior, do they not. The Qur'an, the word of God, speaks the truth, and on this occasion we witness it once again.

RESCUING THE CAPTIVES WAS VERY IMPORTANT FOR ISRAEL.

In fact Netanyahu did not even care. In every circumstance he kept up his genocidal barbarity. The captives' being in Hamas's hands did not prevent him from savagely attacking Gaza. But for those pressuring him, especially for Trump, the hostages were important to the point of obsession. For Hamas, it had by now become clear that the captives it held gave no advantage and did not deter the enemy from aggression. For that reason it did not lose a bargaining chip by handing over the captives. On the contrary, it both gave an opportunity to demonstrate its good faith about stopping the war and, with the exchange agreement, secured the release of nearly 2 thousand of its captives held by Israel.

FROM THE HOURS THE WAR STOPPED UNTIL NOW, ISRAEL HAS VIOLATED THE CEASEFIRE REPEATEDLY

In these violations it massacred more than 20 Palestinians, it attacked Lebanon again out of nowhere, but from the US, the most important guarantor of the war, we heard not a word about these violations. On the contrary, Trump himself frequently cites Hamas's possible neglect as an element of threat. It is seen that sanctions in the face of violations are also being considered one-sidedly. Even if Israel violates the rules repeatedly, countless times, it is not even given a warning, but Hamas is accused of already being destroyed before it has even violated anything, even if it were to respond to Israel's violations.

Although Israel has not even fulfilled the conditions of the first phase, Hamas is expected to immediately fulfill the requirements of the second and third phases. The demand that Hamas hand over its weapons has turned, in the language of Trump and Israel, into an entirely different discourse. A pretext against Hamas that they can use whenever they want, and a pretext to be used in moving to act for the unfinished parts of the genocide in Gaza.

HAMAS'S REAL WEAPON IS THE FAITH IN ITS HEART; CAN YOU TAKE THAT TOO?

Hamas, for its part, is quite relaxed about handing over weapons. Though it has said from the start that it will not hand over its weapons to any force other than Palestinians. It trusts, of course, that any possible Palestinian administration in Hamas cannot from this point on act outside the mission that Hamas represents. The facts too are clear as day. Moreover, Hamas has no heavy weapon to hand over anyway; the biggest weapon it has is the Yasin 105, and how much of even that remains in hand is unknown. What makes even that powerful is not the weapon's technical specifications or the like. Then what?

As you know, the Yasin 105, frequently used in the Al-Aqsa Flood operations since October 7, has become one of the legends of the process. This weapon has become one of the symbols of the Al-Aqsa Flood process, so much so that small models of it have been made. A Gazan friend of mine who gave me one as a gift said that this weapon was guided, and when he saw that I was amazed that they could have built such a technological weapon under those conditions, he smiled with the mischief of having caught a good opportunity for a nice joke. At that moment I understood that he was joking, of course, but his explanation was far more meaningful and described very beautifully what Hamas's real weapon is:

Yes, this rocket is guided, but its guidance is not inside the weapon, it is in the heart of the mujahid who uses it. Otherwise, if this weapon were in someone else's hand, it could not be used with the same effectiveness in any way. Those who have not understood that Hamas's real weapons are not in the tools they use but rather in the faith in their hearts talk about disarming Hamas, but Hamas just laughs it off. Their silence on this matter so far is in fact from chuckling inwardly at the ironic situation they are witnessing. Even if Hamas handed over all the weapons it has, since no one can take the faith in its heart, it would be a matter of moments before it organized again for another mobilization and rushed to the field.

PALESTINIAN CAPTIVES IN ISRAELI DUNGEONS

Meanwhile, in the footage of the captive exchange there is a comparative situation regarding both sides' treatment of captives that again makes one take off one's hat to Hamas and exposes Israel's savagery and inhuman approach to the whole world. Not one of the 20 captives Hamas handed over alive complains of mistreatment. The Israeli captives who died died having received their share of Israel's savage attacks. The dead who could not be handed over could not be handed over because they could not be reached, having likewise remained under the rubble due to Israeli bombardment. Even so, both Israel and Trump immediately try to use even this technical difficulty as a violation. On the other hand, it is on record that each of the Palestinian captives Israel released bears all the marks of "horrifying" severe torture and mistreatment. The Gaza Ministry of Health announced that they had detected marks of beating, torture and prolonged binding on the bodies.

Those who tout the captives in Hamas's hands as the world's greatest drama will not even deign to show the slightest empathy for the more than 10 thousand captives held for years by Israel. Yet Israel holds thousands of Palestinians whom it has randomly seized and kidnapped under torture in the harshest conditions. Only 2 thousand of them could be rescued, and these give ample idea and information of every kind about the state of the 9 thousand captives still held inside.

In return for its own dead, Israel handed over to Hamas within three days the remains of 120 Palestinians. All of these remains had been killed under torture. There is no comparison with the state of those killed by Israeli attacks themselves, like the Israeli captives. In other words, Israel has killed both sides.

This is a very important subject on which solidarity movements with Gaza must especially focus from now on. 9 thousand captives, all held in deadly conditions under torture... What the released Palestinian captives tell is in no way inferior to the inhuman practices in Assad's Sednaya and Tadmur dungeons that horrified all of us. Do you suppose Assad was carrying out those treatments for years right under Israel's nose with no connection to Israel?