Hamas is desperate to end the ongoing war and hoping that the presidency of US President-elect Donald Trump might bring a change to the situation, former Israeli hostage negotiator Gershon Baskin says.
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00:00Indeed, and we've heard from Antony Blinken in the last day or so suggesting
00:05there's been intensified engagement by Hamas on reaching a deal. I mean, what do
00:10you read into this notion of intensified engagement by Hamas? Is that a
00:15sign of desperation, do you think? Well, I think Hamas is desperate to end the
00:20war, but Hamas will not surrender. So we have to put desperation perhaps in
00:24quotes and understand what it means. Hamas also understands reading the
00:29global map that there's an opportunity now, because they understood that
00:32President Biden wouldn't put any real pressure on Israel. President Biden gave
00:36in to every single one of Israel's demands, and when the president, the U.S.
00:40president, put demands on Israel, even with the deadline for humanitarian aid
00:45to go into Gaza, that deadline passed without anything really changing. They're
00:50hoping that Donald Trump might be different or that Israel's relationship
00:53with Donald Trump won't be different, and therefore this might be an opportunity.