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Saturday, October 26, 2024
From the Liveblog of
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Israeli negotiator tells families Mossad chief yet to receive wide enough mandate to achieve results in hostage talks — report
Protesters on Tel Aviv's Begin Road call for a deal to secure the release of hostages held in Gaza by the Hamas terror group, October 26, 2024. (Yael Gadot/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)
Any hostage deal will require an end to the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, an official in Israel’s negotiation team told families of captives, Channel 12 reports.
The official told the families that Mossad Director David Barnea’s trip to Doha tomorrow to try to restart mediated talks will only achieve results if the government gives him a broad enough mandate, which has yet to be provided.
The negotiator’s assessment comes despite Israel’s hope that Hamas’s conditions for a deal would be eased in the wake of the killing of its leader Yahya Sinwar.
