Despite still holding hostages, the group is militarily weakened and will be unable to maintain control over Gaza after the war ends, former Israeli hostage and peace negotiator Gershon Baskin says.
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00:00But the fact that Hamas has been severely weakened during, you know, these last 15 months
00:08or so, I mean, doesn't that mean that Hamas' negotiating position has been severely weakened
00:14as well?
00:15It has, but they have the hostages, 98 hostages they're holding on to.
00:19And even though they don't have a strong military anymore and they can hardly shoot rockets
00:23at Israel, they certainly don't threaten Israel militarily anymore.
00:28As long as there's an Israeli military present in Gaza, they have guerrilla activities that
00:32are killing Israeli soldiers almost every day.
00:35And they could continue to do that for quite a long period of time.
00:40Enough suffering has happened.
00:41Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed, 2 million homeless people in Gaza
00:45right now with no homes to return to, and hundreds of Israeli soldiers who have lost
00:49their war in the extra months of fighting.
00:52This should have ended a long time ago.
00:54Hamas will not be able to rule Gaza after this war.
00:56Everyone knows it.
00:57Hamas knows it as well.
00:59A single dollar of international aid won't enter into Gaza if Hamas is in charge there.
01:04And everyone's talking about the day after, except for Israel, and that's consequential
01:09because Israel needs to agree whatever is going to happen there.
01:12Israel cannot control Gaza, Israel cannot remain in Gaza.
01:15This war has to end.
01:16The hostages have to come home, and the price to pay for Israel is also releasing a large
01:21number of Palestinian prisoners that it doesn't want to release, but it will have to do that.
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