Despite Israel's claims to have shutdown prisoner exchange talks they have in fact been on-going this week, after the realised detaining Hamas MPs and imposing an even harsher regime for Hamas prisoners was not going to have the desired effect of getting Palestinians to bow to their demands.
The Israeli press has been remarkably quiet on these developments, coinciding as they do with the taking of power by the new right-wing government with its extreme right foreign minister.
Ali Baraka, the deputy representative of Hamas in Syria, stated Wednesday that the Egyptian-brokered talks with the Israeli occupation authority about the prisoner swap deal had resumed.
He pointed out that Israel finally came to realize that its pressures on Hamas would not deter it from its demands.more
The Israeli press has been remarkably quiet on these developments, coinciding as they do with the taking of power by the new right-wing government with its extreme right foreign minister.
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