Hamas chief silent on Israel’s offer of escape in exchange for hostages

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****** chief silent on *******’s offer of escape in exchange for hostages

Tel Aviv — Gal Hirsch, *******’s coordinator for hostages and the missing, has broadened a cease-***** offer from the ******** government to ****** leader Yahyah Sinwar.

“I think we will be able to provide safe passage to him, his family, whoever he wants to take with him. If [he wants] to take ten, take ten.  Thousands!  I don’t care,” Hirsch told CBS News.

In return, he said ****** would have to relinquish control of the Gaza Strip and allow the return of the remaining 101 hostages.

“It would be the end of the war, as [the hostages] will be recovered,” Hirsch said.

Of the remaining 101 hostages currently held by ******, ******** intelligence believes 64 are still alive.  ******* insists both the living and the ***** must be returned.

Sinwar has not replied to Hirsch’s proposal since the ******** negotiator first floated a more limited version of it last week.

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****** leader Yahya Sinwar, seen in a file photo from March 22, 2017. / Credit: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Getty

The ****** leader has been in hiding, presumed to be somewhere in the labyrinth of tunnels under Gaza, since the group launched its Oct. 7 ********** ******* on *******, ******** some 1,200 people, taking about 250 others ********, and sparking the ongoing

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According to ******** officials, Sinwar was last sighted in a video they say came from a ****** security camera, recorded just days after the Oct. 7 massacre. The grainy ****** and white pictures only show him from behind, following his wife and children into a tunnel.

Sinwar was named the overall head of ****** on Aug. 6, about a week after ******* assassinated the group’s long-time political leader

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in Iran’s capital, Tehran.

Sinwar did issue a public message this week, thanking his Houthi allies in Yemen after one of their missiles reached ******* on Sunday. There was no suggestion in his message that he was open to accepting an ******** offer of safe passage out of Gaza. On the contrary, he signalled that with the help of the Houthis and ******’ powerful Hezbollah allies in Lebanon, his group was ready to hold out for eventual victory over *******.

“We have prepared ourselves for a prolonged war of attrition that will break the ******’s political will,” he said.

Hirsch also signalled in his interview with CBS News that there could be some wiggle room in one of *******’s key conditions for a cease-***** agreement with ******.

Two weeks ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was accused by ****** of suddenly introducing a new term in the negotiations. He was said to have moved a goal post in the drawn-out dialogue, insisting that after the war, ******** troops would have to remain in the Philadelphi Corridor, the area along Gaza’s southern border with Egypt, to make sure ****** could not smuggle weapons into the ************ Territory that way.

For ******, any enduring ******** military presence in Gaza has always been a non-starter in the negotiations.

Hirsch has now hinted that there could be room for a compromise.

“I’m dealing with the hostages and the missing,” he said.  “The Philadelphi road is a very important asset for negotiations.”

Various senior ******** military figures believe surveillance of the alleged smuggling route could be carried out electronically, with help from international partners, but without ******** boots on the ground.

Asked whether ******* could rely on underground sensors instead of troops to detect smuggling, Hirsch said the details of the IDF deployment – which troops are stationed where – “is part of the negotiation.”

“The Philadelphi road, the prisoners in ******** prisons, humanitarian support – these are all assets we can negotiate with to bring our hostages back home,” he said.

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