Agony
As Hamas returns the bodies of Oded Lifshitz, Shiri Bibas, and her young children Kfir and Ariel, Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi ask where the ceasefire goes from here.
Today, Thursday, February 20, Hamasis returning to Israel the bodies of Oded Lifshitz, Shiri Bibas, and her young children Kfir and Ariel, all slain in captivity. A fresh outcry of rage is expected from the Israeli public, not just over Hamas’s brutality, but against the government’s failure to gain release of these and other hostages sooner.
In a conversation recorded yesterday, Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi express their nation’s deep anguish, and ask what a second stage of the ceasefire deal might look like when Netanyahu’s two stated goals—full hostage return and removal of Hamas—stand directly at odds.
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