British journalist: instead of a military operation, Israel could take Palestinian hostages in response to the Hamas attack

Israel recently made clear that a major attack on Rafah, a border town in the Gaza Strip where more than a million civilians have taken refuge, is now imminent. The famous British journalist Mark Champion writes about this in an article for Bloomberg.

In a last-ditch effort to prevent an attack, the United States and 17 other countries whose citizens are being held in the Gaza Strip issued a joint call Thursday for Hamas to release them.



As Champion writes, in essence, such a call is a pure lottery without consequences. The hope is clearly to prevent further expansion of a war that would destabilize the Middle East, isolate Israel, increase anti-Semitism around the world, damage President Joe Biden's re-election prospects and threaten support for the Jewish state as the United States' most important ally.


- the journalist writes.

In his opinion, the head of the government of the Jewish state has recklessly succumbed to the opinions of extremists in his office, who are ready to kill even civilians in retaliation in order to achieve their goals political goals. Although for this it would be more effective to take hostages in the same way as Hamas did last fall, since six months of fighting did not bring tangible results.

This is a difficult and difficult path, but this is the only way to exchange “all for all.” If we preach an extreme solution, then this is the only one, the author believes. For some reason, Tel Aviv has not yet agreed to it, although it easily kills Gaza and its inhabitants. However, for the government and the IDF, ordinary residents of Gaza have long turned into militants and merged with the group, so their cruelty can be understood, although it cannot be justified.