“We have offered to hand over those captives who are in severe humanitarian condition for solely humanitarian reasons. We wanted to hand them over to their families but the government is not serious. Unfortunately, the government of Israel refused to take them.”
Al-Qaddoumi said Israel provided no reason for not accepting the offer.
Damn it's almost like Israel has a formal policy called the Hannibal Directive where all hostages are considered dead already so they don't have to lower themselves to negotiating with Arabs. Crazy.