One can tell that Hamas expects things to remain calm by how it is behaving - this is all part of the terror group's plan.
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On the first day of the framework, half of the living hostages and the remains of deceased hostages will be released.
Hamas plays for time, stalling hostage talks and banking on a prolonged ceasefire.
"I still can't process that I'm here and there are still people who haven't returned," former hostage Alexander Sasha Troufanov said.
The terorr group's spokesman, Hazem Qassem, made this statement after Hamas dismissed Israel's attempts of extending the hostage deal's first phase.
The IDF was supposed to reduce its presence on the Philadelphi Corridor and then withdraw from it completely over the course of the first 50 days.
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