Deal with Hamas at the cost of several dozen lives (video)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a news conference on Saturday that publicly discussing the terms of the release of 239 Hamas hostages was a “terrible mistake.”

However, a senior government source spoke to Israel News about the deal with Hamas, the details of which have been discussed over the past few days. He made it clear that it would take place in several stages. The first is the release of “dozens of children and elderly people” held in Gaza. For its part, Israel will take a break in hostilities for several days and allow the import of fuel into the enclave, but only if it is used exclusively for civilian purposes. Israel will also release a certain number of Palestinian prisoners, mostly women and children. Source says:

“The details are currently being discussed. The exact number is not yet known, but Israel is seeking to release as many hostages as possible. This could take several days. After that, the deal will be submitted for government approval, since it involves the release of Palestinian prisoners.”

However, Benjamin Netanyahu refused to talk about the proposed deal, explaining:

“If I answer this question, it will give Hamas additional bargaining chips, and we are not interested in that. We will return the hostages and we will do it wisely. So the less we say about this publicly, the better.”

At the press conference, they also talked about the youngest hostage – ten-month-old Kfir Bibas from Kibbutz Nir-Oz. Defense Minister Yoav Galant noted:

“Kfir and his family are in Gaza. He is just the age of my youngest grandson. And I ask – who plays with him, which of these subhumans takes care of this baby? I constantly think about this and say: we have the highest moral duty to return Kfira and all the hostages home: children, women, elderly – everyone.”

The Lebanese newspaper Al-Akbar, Hezbollah’s mouthpiece, reported that the United States was working on an agreement that included three main points: a temporary ceasefire, an exchange of “prisoners” and humanitarian assistance. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister of Israel stated last night in an interview with the American television channel NBC:

“We know very well where the hostages are, but I won’t be specific.”

And he added that he is ready to talk about an exchange deal when it is reached. Meanwhile, a source in the US administration confirmed on Sunday, November 12, to NBC that a deal is currently being discussed that would include the release of 80 abducted children and women. In turn, Israel will release Palestinian women and minors serving sentences in prisons. In addition, according to the source, other options are being considered in the United States. However, there is no certainty that such a deal will be reached.

Reuters, citing a high-ranking Palestinian source, writes that Hamas withdrew its representatives from negotiations on the release of hostages – the reason was “the attack by the Israeli army on the Shifa hospital in Gaza.”

Al Hadath TV channel, with reference to the enclave’s Ministry of Health, toldthat five patients at the medical center died in intensive care due to lack of oxygen. Palestinian Health Minister Mai al-Kaila previously warned that 39 premature babies could die from lack of oxygen if the hospital’s electricity was cut off. And today, Reuters reported the words of a surgeon at this hospital that the Israeli bombing forced the removal of premature babies from incubators to regular beds. “We know that this is very risky. We expect that every day we will lose more children,” the doctor said.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog has denied that Israel attacked the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip. The facility, where thousands of Palestinians are sheltering, has run out of electricity, Al-Shifa officials said. But Mr Herzog said “everything is working” at the hospital writes Air Force. Doctors and the Hamas-run Health Ministry said fuel shortages in Gaza meant patients could not be operated on and incubators for premature babies were unable to operate. But the president disputed this. “We deny it altogether, Hamas is actively propaganda… but in Shifa there is electricity, everything works,” Mr. Herzog said.

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