Auburn's Bruce Pearl slams Hamas terrorists after 3 Israeli hostages are released

Auburn Tigers men’s hoops manager Bruce Pearl sent a fiery connection connected societal media connected Sunday successful effect to a video that seemingly showed Hamas terrorists handing implicit 3 Israeli hostages to the Red Cross.

The video showed the hostages moving from 1 conveyance to the adjacent successful betwixt a ample assemblage of Hamas militants holding guns and chanting "Allah Akbar." The gunmen past stood connected apical of the vehicle.

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Pearl didn’t look pleased.

"This is what giving Palestinians Autonomy looks like. Does it look similar they privation peace?" helium wrote connected X. "They made war, murdered and raped, built tunnels and hid nether their people, launched rockets from surviving rooms, past screamed genocide. RELEASE HOSTAGES NOW, past unrecorded successful bid oregon permission town."

Pearl is not 1 to shy distant from his support for Israel. He has been among the astir outspoken sports figures astir the issue.

Israel’s Cabinet approved a woody aboriginal Saturday greeting for a cease-fire successful Gaza that would see the merchandise of dozens of hostages and intermission the warfare with Hamas that began aft the panic group's Oct. 7, 2023, onslaught connected the Jewish state.

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The woody would let 33 hostages to beryllium acceptable escaped implicit the adjacent six weeks successful speech for hundreds of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel. The remaining hostages are acceptable to beryllium released successful a 2nd signifier that volition beryllium negotiated during the first.

Hamas agreed to merchandise 3 pistillate hostages connected the archetypal time of the deal, 4 connected the seventh time and the remaining 26 implicit the adjacent 5 weeks.

Hamas has said it volition not merchandise the remaining hostages without a lasting cease-fire and a afloat Israeli withdrawal.

The 15-month warfare successful Gaza started erstwhile Hamas launched a astonishment onslaught against Israel connected Oct. 7, 2023, successful which astir 1,200 radical were killed and astir 250 others were abducted, prompting subject retaliation from Israeli forces. Nearly 100 hostages stay captive successful Gaza.

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