Israel latest: Hamas wants a hostage deal but Israel doesn’t want to negotiate ‘full stop’

Israel “has denied that it would ever negotiate anything with Hamas.”

The government is under “extraordinary pressures” from the families of the missing but it is resisting negotiations with Hamas, says Richard Spencer, Times correspondent in Israel.

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