US EditionHamas Planned to Hold Israeli Hostages for a Decade, Former Brig.-Gen. Gal Hirsch Says
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Hostage coordinator: Hostage protests helped Hamas, created 'sense of urgency's
'They planned to hold the hostages for ten years,' Hirsch says, arguing that Hamas exploited internal divisions and that parts of the Israeli media 'echoed enemy propaganda.' Families of hostages accuse him of rewriting history, as Hirsch defends the government's conduct
Hamas Planned to Hold Israeli Hostages for a Decade, Former Brig.-Gen. Gal Hirsch Says
JERUSALEM (VINnews) – Hamas intended to hold Israeli hostages for up to 10 years, Brig.-Gen. (res.) Gal Hirsch told The Jerusalem Post, describing the terror group’s long-term strategy of using captives as leverage against Israel. Appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in October 2023 as coordinator for captives and missing persons, Hirsch said he initially […]
Gal Hirsch: the Demonstrations Helped Hamas, There Was No Need to Create a Sense of Urgency Among Us
The coordinator of the prisoners and missing persons criticized the protesters' messages, as well as the media, in an interview with Haaretz. "There was an echo of enemy propaganda in the Israeli media," he claimed. He said that at the beginning of the war, he feared that the return of the kidnapped would take five years.
With the return of the last abductee from Gaza, the coordinator of prisoners and missing persons speaks for the first time • "They planned to hold negotiations with us for ten years" • Also: the response to claims that not enough efforts are being made
In an interview with Walla, Gal Hirsch claims that Yahya Sinwar has built a strategy of deliberately delaying negotiations, which is intended to last a decade and wear Israel down in the political and military arena. According to him, Hamas has outwardly broadcast a willingness to make deals, but in practice has blocked any real progress and kept the hostages as a lever of continuous pressure.
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