Hamass hostage releases are like Russian roulette | Christina Lamb

“There was division at the beginning over this, whether this was the right thing to do, a truce with Hamas…But the very first night when the first hostages were released…it felt like the first kind of glimmer of light in all of these dark weeks.”

The Sunday Times chief foreign correspondent Christina Lamb says Israelis are left “on tenterhooks” as to whether their family members will be released.

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