Israel could’ve ended Gaza war, freed captives sooner: Israel ex-negotiator
- Retired General Nitzan Alon says more captives could have been returned alive and a deal was possible ‘maybe a year earlier’.
- A former Israeli general who was the army’s point person for hostage negotiations at the beginning of the Gaza war says that a deal to return all Israeli captives could have been achieved “much earlier” than October 2025 but it was prolonged unnecessarily.
- “I think that we could [have gotten to] this point much earlier, maybe a year earlier or so, without any major implication on the other strategic goals of the war,” Major General Nitzan Alon said on Friday.
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- Retired General Nitzan Alon says more captives could have been returned alive and a deal was possible ‘maybe a year earlier’.
- A former Israeli general who was the army’s point person for hostage negotiations at the beginning of the Gaza war says that a deal to return all Israeli captives could have been achieved “much earlier” than October 2025 but it was prolonged unnecessarily.
- “I think that we could [have gotten to] this point much earlier, maybe a year earlier or so, without any major implication on the other strategic goals of the war,” Major General Nitzan Alon said on Friday.
Sources: Al Jazeera