Israeli Deputy FM Sharren Haskel accuses Hamas of violating the ceasefire by failing to release hostages as agreed.
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00:00Following his comments, Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Sharon Haskell spoke to Al Arabiya
00:05News in an exclusive interview. She told us there's no reason for Hamas to continue to
00:12hold hostages and shared her thoughts on the future of the two-state solution. Take a listen.
00:20Obviously, we are backing Trump's declaration asking to return all of the hostages. There's
00:26no reason for Hamas to hold our hostages and to prolong the situation. When we signed with Hamas,
00:35which is a terrorist organization, a ceasefire agreement, we knew we were signing a deal with
00:40a terrorist organization and we knew they cannot be trusted. They violated the agreement from the
00:47start. For example, not giving us the list of the names of the people that are going to be released
00:55or not, and not until today, not giving the status of which hostage in what condition they are.
01:04The fact that they didn't release Sarbel Yehud, which she was meant to be released
01:09among the first one, was another violation, a brutal violation of the agreement as well.
01:16And now Hamas is coming and complaining about what we did because they didn't release Sarbel Yehud
01:22to wait with the returning of the Gazan citizen to the north until they release her,
01:29like they actually committed to. Well, it's absolutely unacceptable.