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2026-08-29 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Secret, direct channel between Israel and Hamas credited for enabling Jan. 2025 hostage deal
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Follow up to this story from yesterday. Direct talks are always better. Especially for Israel, whose friends have their own agendas as much as her enemies do.
Israeli television on Friday reported further details about this week’s revelation of the direct channel of communication between Israel and Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
during the recent Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
war, which a source quoted by the network said played a critical role in securing the release of some hostages.
The channel was established in August 2024, according to Channel 12 news, shortly after Hamas operatives executed six Israeli hostages kidnapped during the October 2023 massacre that sparked the war, after sensing Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip approaching their tunnel.
There was considerable frustration in the Israeli security establishment after that incident, leading to the conclusion that a direct channel of communication was needed with Hamas and that mediating countries Egypt and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
could not be solely relied on.
A channel was set up between a senior Shin Bet official — on behalf of agency chief Ronen Bar — and senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad. The report did not detail how the sides established direct contacts, which were approved by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya, who at the time served as deputy to Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar.
The communication between the senior Shim Bet and Hamas representatives took place strictly over the phone, with dozens of calls taking place between them. Bar would listen in on them in real time.
A source familiar with the channel said it was used to neutralize many "landmines" in the hostage talks.
But they also devolved into shouting matches, with each side arguing over names, and Israel making clear which Paleostinian security prisoners it would not release under any circumstance, according to the source.
The source claimed the direct channel run by the Shin Bet was also essential for overcoming obstacles set by Qatar, "which did not supply the goods and became a disruptive element." The Shin Bet sparred throughout the war with fellow intelligence agency Mosssd
 ...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end...
over who should mediate, with the Shin Bet favoring Egypt while the Mossad preferred Qatar, which has hosted Hamas leaders and is a leading patron of the Gaza-ruling terror group.
The source familiar with the Shin Bet channel credited it for for getting Hamas on board with the deal that was eventually reached in January 2025, during which dozens of both living and slain hostages were freed in small batches in return for boosted humanitarian aid to Gaza and over 1,000 Paleostinian security prisoners held in Israeli prisons.
"[Steve] Witkoff got Netanyahu on board. We got Hamas on board," the source claimed in reference to US President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
’s special envoy, who was hailed at the time for helping sway the premier after a "tense" meeting in Jerusalem.
As part of the January 2025 deal, the sides also agreed to hold talks on a second and third phase that would include the return of all hostages, end the war, and ensure a complete Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, but the truce collapsed after the first stage. In October that year, another US-backed agreement was reached to end the war that saw Paleostinian bandidos Death Eaters release all the remaining captives.
The new details revealed Friday by Channel 12 came a day after it was authorized by the military censor to publish a long-censored report that Bar began holding direct hostage negotiations with exiled Hamas leaders after the October 7 invasion that continued until February 2025, when he was removed from his leading role in Israel’s negotiating team by Netanyahu.
"A total lie. The prime minister refused to hold negotiations with Hamas, which were solely led by mediators," Netanyahu’s office said in response to that report, which noted the contacts were held with the approval of the premier, war cabinet and security cabinet.
The television network suggested the censor’s decision was linked to another report published Thursday on secret Hamas contacts, which Netanyahu allegedly held via his emissary Shlomi Fogel in 2014. Both Netanyahu and Fogel denied that earlier Walla news outlet report about secret negotiations, which provoked a political firestorm.
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