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There is a military case to be made that Hamas wasn’t destroyed and is in the process of reconstituting, but there is no way to divorce this from the political events,
Freilich said
What would’ve been a fight from the Biden administration is now welcomed by Trump,
said Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
I hear the commentators claiming that the IDF’s actions are driven by political motives,
Netanyahu said in a recorded video statementAll hell will break loose,
she warned HamasAt the end of the day, Netanyahu’s government is hanging by a thread, and it depends on the far right,
he saidThere are deals on the table, and you are choosing to continue sacrificing more hostages and soldiers,
Metzger shouted at him in parliament, the Times of Israel reported
A responsible Israeli leader, who has no internal political consideration, would bring all the hostages back in one group, up front, [in return] for ending the war, and then will take care of the second goal of the war to dismantle Hamas,
he said in a briefing to journalists on TuesdayWe paid [a price] too. Let’s not have a competition.”
He ordered security to remove her, sayingWhen Israeli reservists came [to serve] in October 2023, their main motivation was to bring back the hostages. Now someone has to convince them that the ground operation will bring back the hostages [alive], not bring them back dead. This is a tough job,
he addedHamas could have released hostages to extend the ceasefire but instead chose refusal and war,
National Security Council (NSC) spokesman Brian Hughest told Fox News Digital
From now on, the negotiations will resume only under fighting,
Netanyahu said in a brief public messageI want to assure you: this is just the beginning,
Netanyahu saidWe extended the ceasefire for weeks when we did not receive any hostages. We sent delegations to Doha. We sent delegations to Cairo. We made proposals together with the mediators. We accepted the proposal of the American envoy, [Steve] Witkoff. In contrast, Hamas has repeatedly rejected every offer."
Netanyahu went onI hear the commentators reporting lies in the studios, as if the IDF's recommendation and IDF actions stem from political considerations,
he said![Gershon Baskin](https://d2ez01c7okdt37.cloudfront.net/img/face/ד"ר_גרשון_בסקין.jpg)
We all know that Netanyahu never had the intention to enter phase two of the ceasefire because he never had the intention of ending the war in Gaza
said Gershon Baskin, the former Israeli hostage negotiator on Tuesday
We are refusing to participate in a war that neglects and will kill our hostages,
Standing Together Co-Director Alon Lee Green said
They’re alone. They don’t have any friends left, not in the White House, not in the Congress and not even on college campuses,
he said of the crackdown on support for Palestine across many US educational institutionsThe hostage families demand a meeting this morning [Tuesday] with the prime minister, the defence minister and the head of the negotiating team in which [the officials] will clarify how they can guarantee that hostages won’t be affected by the military pressure and how they are planning to get them home,
the group saidThe Islamic Resistance [Movement], Hamas, can no longer use the ceasefire, or even the hostages, as a bargaining chip,
he said of negotiations on the second stageWhy aren’t you fighting in the negotiations room? Why have you backed out of an agreement that could have brought everyone home
the forum asked the government