The Israeli Broadcasting Authority (KAN) said that the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation) She deceived the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu During the weeks preceding the operation Al-Aqsa flood.
The commission stated that Hamas sent letters to Netanyahu’s office, expressing its readiness to proceed with a prisoner exchange deal through which the two Israeli soldiers Hadar Goldin and Shaul Oron, who have been detained by the movement since the aggression on Gaza in 2014, would be released, in addition to the other prisoner, Aphra Mengistu.
It considered that the movement tried to divert the attention of Israeli officials from the situation on the ground, and occupied them with indirect “intensive negotiations” that took place through several mediators at the highest political level in Israel, and were managed by officials in Netanyahu’s office, at a time when the movement’s military wing was preparing “the largest attack that “It was carried out on Israeli targets.”
The Commission indicated that “intensive negotiations” took place during the past two years, in an attempt to reach a prisoner exchange deal between Hamas and the Israeli occupation authorities.
It quoted Israeli officials as saying that these negotiations “intensified and escalated over the past months… and witnessed ups and downs, but on several occasions, Hamas made Israel feel that it was very close to reaching a deal.”
The Palestinian resistance factions captured more than 200 Israelis during Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, which they launched on the 7th of this month. In response, the Israeli occupation forces launched intense raids on the Gaza Strip, killing more than 6,000 martyrs, nearly half of whom were children.