“… “Of the prisoners, we don’t know exactly who among them are alive or dead, killed because of strikes or hunger,” Bassem Naim, a senior Hamas leader, told AFP from Cairo. ..”
(source: barron’s, 04mar2024)
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so if it is true that the hamas leadership does not
know who they have as hostages, then it seems a
bit far fetched that the jihadis are at the poker ta-
ble upping an imaginary ante …