‘Not our intention to kill civilians’: Hamas spokesperson on Israeli hostages

Hamas has addressed the Israeli hostage situation, where a spokesperson in Lebanon says the group is in talks with other countries to free more people from the Gaza Strip, but claims they want the conditions to be right and the airstrikes on Gaza to stop first. Crystal Goomansingh spoke with Ghazi Hamed, a member of the political bureau of Hamas in Gaza, about the hostages and Hamas’ violent conflict with Israel.

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