What's the deal? Hard bargaining over hostages and Gaza truce

Ismael Haniyeh is the face of Hamas abroad, but who is calling the shots inside Gaza? Does Israel's leadership want to negotiate, or eliminate its interlocutors? Would a three or five-day truce signal a temporary respite or the first step towards spelling out an alternative to reducing all of Gaza to rubble?

That raises the broader question: if Hamas's aim on October 7 was to spark a reaction, they got it. But now what? What is the ultimate goal for Palestinians? What is the ultimate goal for Israelis?

Produced by Alessandro Xenos, Rebecca Gnignati and Louise Guibert.

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