Israeli Ambassador to the Russian Federation Alexander Ben Zvi said that the Hamas movement did not negotiate with Israeli representatives about the hostage exchange. This was reported by TASS.
According to him, the Israeli side does not yet know how the current situation will develop.
“You know, just today, in the last hour, a huge salvo of rockets was fired at Israel. Of course, there are retaliatory actions, so there are no such negotiations yet,” the diplomat emphasized.
He added that Egypt has always participated in previous negotiations as a mediator, but so far there has been no request from them. The ambassador added that Israel is now starting military operations.
Before that, the Hamas movement wants to exchange Some of the hostages captured in Israeli territory were Palestinian women imprisoned in Israeli prisons.
7 October Hamas forces launched Several thousand rockets were launched into Israel and the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood was announced. Against this background, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on October 7 entry state of emergency in the country.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu announcedthat the country is at war. The IDF’s operation against Hamas was called “Iron Swords”.
Formerly with Israel Police guess duration of conflict escalation.