What you are about to experience now is a correspondence between two people who insist on talking to each other across an abyssal chasm. It is a series of WhatsApp messages between an American-Israeli hostage negotiator and a senior Hamas memberin the days after the terrorist attack against Israel on October 7 last year.
Merian Garde Gräs is a journalist and editor for the borderless group, Zetland's answer to a foreign editorial office. She has previously hosted Zetland Helikopter.