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Hamas - Israel war - Considerations regarding the Israeli hostages

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Ayman Safadi
Ayman Safadi

“Tremendous effort has been made to produce an exchange deal that'll release hostages and realize a ceasefire. Hamas has put out an offer. If Netanyahu genuinely wants a deal, he will negotiate the offer in earnest. Instead, he is jeopardizing the deal by bombing Rafah.”

Aje

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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Jordan
06 May 2024 5 2
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Mahjoob Zweiri
Mahjoob Zweiri

“What we have witnessed in the past few hours is that they talk about an agreement on the first stage. It could be understood that Hamas wants to release itself from the pressure globally, including the United States. So, they are giving concessions on the first stage, which leads to 40 days of ceasefire and exchange of captives. I think 33 old and sick captives. And then moving on to other stages. But we are seeing that we are going back to the main conditions, which means we are still talking about the main principles [complete ceasefire and withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza] that Hamas talked about. As the time of some sort of agreement on the first stage came, the Israeli military and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to say actually, there is no agreement: We will go to Rafah regardless of any agreement. It reflects the divisions within the Israelis and crisis within the Israeli politics. On the other hand, Hamas has been more cautious. They do not want to show real progress made but they also do not want to say things have not changed. I think it's obvious some change has happened otherwise we would not expect [CIA chief] William Burns to be in the region.”

Aje

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Professor of contemporary Middle East politics at Qatar University
04 May 2024 11 4
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Nour Odeh
Nour Odeh

“For a while, there was a lot of cautious optimism up until this morning, and then the prime minister announced he will order an invasion of Rafah with or without a deal - in essence trampling all of these ceasefire talks. This is what the families of the captives had feared. This is what the negotiators feared. Netanyahu's comments came after he held meetings with the most right-wing members of his coalition government, including Itamar Ben-Gvir. It's interesting, every time Blinken comes to the region - catching the tailwind of some optimism - something like this happens, and he ends up going home with nothing to show for all this political momentum.”

Aje

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Palestinian political analyst based in Ramallah
30 Apr 2024 6 2
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Yair Lapid
Yair Lapid

“This government has to choose: return the abductees alive, or Ben Gvir and Smotrich, relations with the Americans or Ben Gvir and Smotrich, the Saudi deal or Ben Gvir and Smotrich, Israel's security or Ben Gvir and Smotrich.”

Aje

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Israeli politician and former prime minister
28 Apr 2024 5 6
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Annalena Baerbock
Annalena Baerbock

“Iran is playing with the fate of all people in the Middle East and has led an entire region to the brink of the abyss. The aim now is to stop Iran without further escalation. Iran's plan to sow further violence must not work. Israel has our full solidarity and can rely on us. We also do not forget the many dozens of Israeli hostages who are still being held captive in Hamas tunnels. They must finally be released.”

Aje

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Foreign Minister of Germany
16 Apr 2024 7 3
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Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu

“Calls for elections now during the war, a moment before victory, will paralyze Israel for at least six months; in my estimate, for eight months. They will paralyze the negotiations for the release of our hostages and in the end will lead to ending the war before achieving its goals, and the first to commend this will be Hamas, and that says it all.”

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Prime Minister of Israel
31 Mar 2024 3 3
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Walid Habas
Walid Habas

“The families of the Israeli prisoners are not stupid. They know the Israeli army directly participated in operations that killed more than 10 captives. It also failed to free any of them, except for two who were not in the possession of resistance groups in exchange for money. Protests within Israeli society have escalated against the Netanyahu government due to its inability to return the captives; however, they are not enough to threaten the coalition government or overthrow it. However, if the protests are bolstered by the larger movement that was igniting the streets of Israel in the spring and summer of 2023, the equation may change.”

Aje

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Researcher at the Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies – Madar
11 Mar 2024 3 1
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Hamdah Salhut
Hamdah Salhut

“This round of talks has concluded with no substantial answer or solution for [a] ceasefire or pause in the fighting. It is worth mentioning that the Israelis themselves chose not to send their own delegation to Cairo for this round of talks because they were hoping to receive a list of names of all of the captives who are alive and currently being held in Gaza.”

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Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from occupied East Jerusalem
07 Mar 2024 3 2
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Bezalel Smotrich
Bezalel Smotrich

“Only more pressure on Hamas in Ramadan will force them to kneel and release the Israeli captives. We must not allow Hamas to choose who is released from among our abductors, and the demand must be the release of all abductees.”

Aje

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Finance Minister of Israel
04 Mar 2024 3 2
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Yair Lapid
Yair Lapid

“You ask us whether we are doing enough to return the hostages, and the answer is no. If we were doing enough, then they would already be returning home.”

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Israeli politician and former prime minister
02 Mar 2024 1 1
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Omar Ashour
Omar Ashour

“The [Israeli military's] first priority is to destroy the armed wing of Hamas and the other Palestinian factions, to undermine them in any way, even if it costs the lives of some of the hostages. The latest captives' reported deaths also indicates that Israel's war strategy is not achieving its objectives after more than 140 days of fighting. We are in the 147th day of war and there are more and more hostages dying, the majority of them by Israeli fire. The only way to release the hostages safely is the way it was done before - through some sort of negotiations. The Israeli government knows that… They just don't want to admit it.”

Aje

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Professor of security and military studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
01 Mar 2024 3 2
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Willem Marx
Willem Marx

“It looks like there will be around 40 Israeli hostages being released - that would be women civilians, female soldiers, older men with serious medical conditions - in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners currently held in detention or Israeli jails. An agreement could also lead to a considerable increase in humanitarian aid going into the Gaza Strip and a potential return of Palestinians to the heavily bombarded and attacked areas in the northern part of the enclave.”

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Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from occupied East Jerusalem
25 Feb 2024 5 2
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Annalena Baerbock
Annalena Baerbock

“I think it's crystal clear the situation cannot go on like it is. Families are waiting for their fathers, for their mothers … who have been captured by the terrorist organisation Hamas. On the other hand, we also need a humanitarian pause for the hundreds of thousands of people suffering in Gaza. There are also children who have lost their parents. Imagine our own children living without any parents, any water, any food. The easiest way to achieve the pause would be for Hamas to lay down its weapons.”

Aje

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Foreign Minister of Germany
16 Feb 2024 3 3
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Tzachi Hanegbi
Tzachi Hanegbi

“The negotiations on the release of our hostages are advancing and continuing constantly. The start of the release will take place according to the original agreement between the sides, and not before Friday.”

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Israeli National Security Adviser
23 Nov 2023 1 1
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