Discussion on Israeli-Hamas Conflict

Of, uh,

of the war when we were,

you know, coming very directly to the Israeli

officials and

telling them that we got

an agreement that releasing all the civilian hostages

just, you know, give a window of a ceasefire to get

everyone out.

And they even rejected to entertain the idea, and that's showing

what's their interest. Is it saving their people or just go

and destroy as-

Well, there have been multiple reports, as you know, started by Haaretz, and The

New York Times have now verified it, that Benjamin Netanyahu took a call from

the leader of the UAE warning about 10 days before October the

7th that Hamas were planning a massive attack on Israel.

Is that your understanding that that report is true, that

that call happened?

Well, look, there, there has been many indications that, uh,

an escalation is potentially hap- is going to happen given

the circumstances that we were witnessing in the past few months,

uh, to October s- leading to October 7.

But what I can confirm that is true is at least, uh,

we have reached out to the Israeli official in day one after

a, a very tough meeting with Hamas leaders to

get

everyone out, to get all the civilian out, and our message was

very clear.

Uh, they are asking for a window of ceasefire

to get the civilians out,

and then we, we can discuss about the rest,

and we can help in

negotiating the rest. And basically, they were not interested to

engage in the idea. They said