Hostage negotiations are just a tool for Hamas to disrupt and ‘delay’ Israel’s ‘momentum’ in Gaza

“Hamas understands that the Israeli government is increasingly under pressure from the hostage families, and perhaps from the United States as well, to provide the time and space for hostage releases…they seek to break up the Israeli momentum and the ground campaign and delay.”

Former Middle East negotiator Aaron David Miller says this will be “first of several tranches of releases” in order to stall the IDF’s ground campaign.

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