"The Oslo Accord is gone" says Jan Egeland, a former peace negotiator who helped draw up the 1993 agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Speaking as a four-day truce between Israel and Hamas approaches its end, a window in which 50 hostages were exchanged for Palestinian prisoners, Egeland calls for "an end to this dirty idea that you can and should exchange hostages for humanitarian access to children."
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00:00 "Vote for ceasefire in the General Assembly resolution."
00:10 "Yeah."
00:11 "With one VIP coming after another now would distract work and I may, well, I wish I could
00:19 be able to go into Gaza.
00:23 The Oslo Accord is gone as an accord, now there will be another accord and it will have
00:30 to be led by the U.S., the EU, and the Arab countries."
00:36 I think much of the bargaining has to happen discreetly without the media present because
00:42 then people talk to the gallery and there's so much bitterness and hatred on both sides
00:48 now that there has to be discreet talks about compromise.
00:55 However, it cannot be a backroom deal that will be implemented.
01:00 There has to be ratified by the two peoples for it to become peace.
01:07 We have to have a permanent ceasefire.
01:10 We have to have all of the border crossings open.
01:14 And finally, we have to have an end to this dirty idea that you can and should exchange
01:22 hostages for humanitarian access to children.
01:28 Hostages are no bargaining chip.
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