Hamas is neither in full control of all the remaining hostages in Gaza nor does it have all the information on their whereabouts and their status, former Israeli hostage negotiator Gershon Baskin says.
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00:00If we just go back and talk about the hostages, according to the Times of Israel, just two
00:05days ago, Hamas refused to release 22 of the 34 living hostages in a partial ceasefire
00:13deal.
00:14Does Hamas have any access to all of the hostages, and do they actually know how many are still
00:21alive?
00:22No, I don't believe that Hamas has all the information of where all the hostages are.
00:26There are 100 hostages, according to Israel.
00:30Hamas does not control all of them.
00:31They don't know where all of them are.
00:33Hostages were being held by other organizations, including the Islamic Jihad and the Popular
00:37Front, but there were also civilians who were holding hostages, and it's very likely that
00:43hostages may be buried underneath rubble of buildings bombed by Israel.
00:48We don't know.
00:49Hamas doesn't know.
00:50Hamas is saying that they need a full week of total ceasefire in order to be able to
00:55come out of their bunkers and tunnels and search for the hostages.
00:59They're not using any kind of modern communication, digital communication at all, because they
01:04don't want to be located by Israel.
01:06So it's really an operation that has to be done by Hamas on the ground by going around
01:10different parts of the Gaza Strip that they no longer control.