Let’s zoom in on just one part of Hamas’s terms for a ceasefire – which, we are told, are so very close to the agreed-upon proposal on the table, with only minor changes. The original proposal had been for 40 hostages who meet certain humanitarian conditions—children, women, elderly people, and those who are seriously ill—to be released in the first stage. Hamas said on April 10 that it doesn’t have 40 such hostages, suggesting some were no longer alive; we may never know how they died. The international mediators urged Israel to accept 33 hostages in the first stage. Israel agreed. Now Hamas is saying the 33 will have to include dead bodies. That is not a minor change. It’s a whopping big one, and no one should pretend otherwise.
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