Israeli officials say Hamas violation doesn’t warrant blowing up hostage deal

An Israeli official tells Channel 12 that Israel “will not repeat the mistake that we made in the previous deal.”

In the previous hostage deal in November 2023, Israel decided to resume fighting after Hamas violated the deal’s terms regarding who it would release on the seventh day.

The Israeli official reveals that not everyone in the decision-making process supported the decision to resume fighting rather than extend the first deal further.

Channel 12 cites another Israeli official who characterizes Hamas’s latest violation as not one that warrants dismantling a hostage-release mechanism that is overall working thus far.

The list of hostages released by Hamas earlier tonight includes four female soldiers, even though Israel maintains that it has not finished releasing all remaining living female civilians, as required by the deal.

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