According to a member of the group’s delegation that visited Russia, Hamas claims it needs to find out where all the people abducted during its attack on southern Israel on October 7 are hiding, Israeli newspaper The Times of Israel reports.
“The Hamas official identified as Abu Hamid told the semiofficial Russian media channel Kommersant that the group had always been ready to release civilians but ‘needs time to find them.’
He claims that members of several groups are holding hostages and that a ceasefire is needed so that Hamas can conduct its search, find the kidnapped people and then release them.”
In fact, Hamas felt that the Israeli bombings were the case Eliminate your terrorists and its war infrastructure (including, in the last 24 hours, antitank missile launch sites and command and control centers), so it is trying to buy time to recover and, like Lula and Vladimir Putin, is calling for a “stopfire.” “, which would only benefit the group itself.
Israel tends to continue the neutralization and search operation on its own, with air strikes and ground attacks, because it knows that it cannot count on the help of these people for anything.
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