Families accuse Netanyahu of “sabotaging” hostage deal.

CGTN Europe

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been accused by families of hostages still held in Gaza of “sabotaging” the latest attempts to have them freed.  A report has claimed the families believe every time there is a chance of a breakthrough, Netanyahu finds one or another reason to derail it.

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00:00What Israel is saying is that Hamas is not willing to present a list of living hostages and

00:08therefore

00:09things cannot

00:10Cannot go forward Hamas is saying that they need at least a week of

00:15Ceasefire to gather information to find out who exactly he is alive

00:20And who's not and they cannot do that before they get at least seven days of a ceasefire

00:26This is where things are standing the families however as you mentioned have protested again as they do every Saturday night and

00:34according to the families and this new Israeli demand

00:38Regarding the list of living hostages is yet another

00:41What they define as a sabotage attempt by the prime minister

00:45The families are saying that every time that it seems that an agreement is about to be reached

00:49Benjamin Netanyahu finds one or another reason to derail everything back in in May

00:56It was Rafa after that it was the Philadelphia corridor now

01:00They're speaking of a list and what the families are saying is that everybody all of the living hostages

01:07Should be brought back together. There should not be a distinction between humanitarian cases and non-humanitarian cases

01:13Everyone is a humanitarian case according to the family

01:17This is especially true after parts of a report put together by the Israeli Ministry of Health were published showing

01:24the extreme

01:26difficulties a

01:27Which the hostages went through in in Gaza and therefore everybody should be brought back according to the families

01:35But as we just mentioned, they're not very optimistic as they're seeing the attempts being derailed once again

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