CNN speaks with Gershon Baskin on what could come next in the negotiations for the rest of those taken during the terrorist group’s attack on Israel on October 7.
Gershon Baskin senses that the primary function and responsibility of the state is to protect its citizens and Israel has failed to protect its citizens living along the Gaza border, and it has a moral responsibility to return them to the homeland.
Gershon Baskin senses that the realistic base-case scenario is that the civilians are released and that there is a cease-fire before Israel decides to renew the fight both on the ground and in the air.
Gershon Baskin shares with Daily Express US his sense that the militants will “drive a hard bargain” when it comes to the release of hostages.
Gershon Baskin shares his ideas about the fate of the hostages and Israel’s decision to go ahead with a ground offensive
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GBNews interviews Hostage negotiator and Director of The Holy Land Bond, Gershon Baskin, explains hopes of further hostage releases as the ‘window of opportunity’ becomes shorter due to Israel’s plans to destroy the Hamas.
Anderson Hays Cooper, an American broadcast journalist and political commentator anchoring the CNN news broadcast show Anderson Cooper 360°, interviews Gershon Baskin regarding his involvement with the hostage situation.
Gershon Baskin tells BBC Newshour that there are different groups involved in holding the hostages in Gaza and Hamas does not necessarily have full control of the situation and their welfare. Therefore, the key questions for anyone trying to negotiate and get the hostages back is: “Who is holding them? Who has the power to release them?”
Gershon Baskin, who played a pivotal role in the release of an Israeli soldier in 2011, says Israel has “a moral responsibility” to the hostages it “failed to protect.”
Christiane Maria Heideh Amanpour CBE, the Chief International Anchor for CNN and host of CNN International’s nightly interview program speaks with Gershon Baskin, who helped secure the release of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit more than a decade ago, about the efforts to release Israelis in Gaza and what needs to be done the day after the war.