“They must be released based on this”.
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Gazans have resorted to resistance against Israel as a result of the Tel Aviv regime’s blockade, he added.
[JURIST] Israel has decided to open a dialogue with the global Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] on an investigation into Israel’s conduct in the Gaza Strip last summer according to a Thursday report [Haaretz report] by Israeli newspaper Haaretz. He argues that Israel was established by the United Nations, and it has not occupied Palestinian lands.
On Wednesday, Hamas’s leader-in-exile Khaled Mashaal talked about negotiations between Israel and Hamas for two dead and two missing Israelis. In 2011, Israel released 1,027 Palestinian prisoners, in four waves, in return for the release of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.
“Israel had remained silent on the disappearance of the two men in the hope that their release would be arranged on humanitarian grounds since neither was, or had been, a soldier and because both reportedly had psychological issues”.
The lifting of a 10-month gag order allowed private Channel 10 television to air audio of Lior Lotan – coordinator of prisoner of war and missing in action affairs in Netanyahu’s office – haranguing Mengistu’s family. The family criticized Netanyahu’s failure to respond to their letters.
Following the conversation’s publication, Netanyahu said Lotan “should not have said these things” and invited the family to a meeting at his residence.
Israeli media condemned the comments as patronising and insensitive.
In other words, Hamas is seeking a major gain before it even consents to negotiate for the Israelis it is holding dead and alive.
Little is known of the whereabouts of Mengistu, who climbed over the Gaza security fence in September past year.
Israel strove to keep the pair’s plight secret to the extent that then foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman and members of the parliamentary defence and foreign affairs committee said they had been kept totally unaware.
The second prisoner is a Bedouin grownup man from Israel’s Negev remote.
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An Israeli official apologized for telling a family of immigrants from Ethiopia not to criticize Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of their son’s captivity in Gaza.
