The pressure is building on Netanyahu over hostages – his only option is an ‘all for all’ deal | Gershon Baskin

A mass prisoner release would seem like a PR win for Hamas, but it's Israel's only route to victory

More than three months into a conflict that has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people, it is clear there is only one way Israel can return all of the hostages from Gaza alive: an all for all" deal with Hamas - all of the hostages, an estimated 129 of whom are believed to be alive, in exchange for all of the Palestinians in Israeli prisons.

There are about 8,000 Palestinian prisoners now in Israeli jails. Of these, 559 are serving life sentences for killing Israelis, and another 130 were caught in Israel in the two days after the 7 October Hamas attacks.