Nimrod Novik, a top adviser to former PM Shimon Peres, says discreet negotiations could already be happening
over the return of prisoners are likely to be under way already, according to a veteran Israeli negotiator and former top policy adviser.
“I don’t dismiss the possibility that even as we speak there are efforts to do at least a partial swap of women, children, and the elderly for Palestinians held in Israeli prisons,” he said. “I don’t want to have wishful thinking but the initial brutal, vicious behaviour should give way to an appreciation that they have in their hands a valuable card to trade for something dear to them,” he said. “They won’t be comfortable but they should be unharmed.”Hamas appears to have backed off threats to execute hostages on live video if Israel did not temper bombing of the Gaza Strip.
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