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Thursday, May 17, 2018
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Thursday, May 17, 2018
Israel denies Hamas claim that it walked away from prisoner exchange talks
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIsrael’s top official charged with recovering the bodies of two fallen soldiers held by Hamas in Gaza and two Israeli citizens being held by the terror group denies Hamas’s claim today that Israel is refusing to discuss prisoner exchanges.
In an interview with Al-Jazeera, Hamas’s Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar echoes the group’s Twitter statement earlier today and claims that Israel has retreated from talks on returning the Israelis.
Yaron Blum says the claim is untrue, and that Hamas is welcome to contact the intermediaries who pass messages between Israel and the group in order to jumpstart talks on a prisoner exchange.
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