Auburn Tigers Men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl sent a fiery message on social media Sunday in response to a video that apparently showed Hamas terrorists handing over three Israeli hostages to the Red Cross.
Video recording showed the hostages moving from one vehicle to another between a large crowd of Hamas militants holding weapons and chanting “Allah Akbar”. The gunmen then stood on top of the vehicle.
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Bruce Pearl (Dale Zanine-Imagn Images)
Pearl did not seem pleased.
“This is what giving autonomy to the Palestinians looks like. Does it look like they want peace?” he wrote on X. “They made war, killed and raped, built tunnels and hid under their men, launched rockets from living rooms, then screamed genocide. Free the hostages NOW, and live in peace or leave the city.”
Pearl is not one to shy away from her own support for Israel. He was among the sports figures who spoke most openly about the issue.
Israel’s cabinet approved a ceasefire deal in Gaza early Saturday that would include the release of dozens of hostages and a pause in the war with Hamas that began after the terrorist group’s October 7, 2023, attack on the Jewish state.
Former hostage British-Israeli 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 freed from captivity in a January 19 hostage-Israeli deal between Hamas and Israel. , 2025.
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The deal would see the release of 33 hostages over the next six weeks in exchange for hundreds of Palestinians jailed by Israel. The remaining hostages will be released in a second phase that will be negotiated during the first.
Hamas agreed to release three hostages on the first day of the deal, four on the seventh day and the remaining 26 over the next five weeks.
Hamas said it would not release the remaining hostages without a permanent ceasefire and a full Israeli withdrawal.
A terrorist from Hamas participates in a military parade. (Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/File)
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The 15-month war in Gaza began when Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, killing approximately 1,200 people and abducting around 250 others, prompting a military retaliation by Israeli forces. Almost 100 hostages remained imprisoned in Gaza.
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