Under Pressure From Prisoners’ Families, Israel To Resume Truce Talks

A new video showing Hamas fighters holding captive soldiers on 7 October was released by prisoners’ families to pressure the Israeli government

Israel’s war cabinet approved a resumption of indirect prisoner talks with the Palestinian resistance on 23 May, coming after the release of a video showing female captives being held by Hamas’ armed wing on 7 October.

A source told Hebrew media that Tel Aviv’s negotiating team was given new directives to try to make a breakthrough in the prisoner talks.

The source was briefed on the details of a high-level Israeli meeting on the matter but did not elaborate on the specific guidelines for resuming the talks.

Meanwhile, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that the war cabinet has ordered Israel’s negotiating team “to continue negotiations for the return of the hostages.”

At the high-level meeting, Major General Nitzan Alon, one of the Israeli negotiators, presented an updated plan. This came after a previous plan for resuming talks was rejected by Netanyahu on 18 May.

A source told Kan radio that the Israeli negotiating team did not receive everything it asked for but that “at least progress can be made.”

Talks have recently stalled over Hamas’ insistence that a prisoner exchange be linked to an Israeli commitment for a permanent ceasefire, withdrawal of troops, and an end to the war, among the resistance group’s main terms, which it has refused to back down from.

Israel’s refusal has been among the leading obstacles to reaching an agreement.

The approval for renewed talks came a day after the families of Israeli prisoners released footage of a group of female soldiers being held captive by fighters of Hamas’ Qassam Brigades at the Nahal Oz military site on 7 October, one of the bases stormed by resistance fighters during Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. All five of the female soldiers remain captive in Gaza.

Hebrew media’s translation of the video claims that Hamas fighters described the prisoners as “women who can get pregnant,” implying that the fighters had intentions to rape the women. However, the Arabic word used by the fighters to describe the soldiers is sabaya, which translates to ‘female captives’ and bears no relation to pregnancy.

...The Hostages and Missing Families Forum released the video to pressure the Israeli government toward a deal that returns their relatives to Israel. Representatives of the prisoners’ families have repeatedly accused Netanyahu’s government of deliberately sabotaging talks.

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@PsyopDaily / TheMcgwire Pointed Out: "Some of these female observers at Nahal Oz were the same ones repeatedly trying to warn the Oct 7 attack was going to happen ...

Netanyahu still hasn't explained why he ignored repeated warnings of the attack, from various sources"

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