For years, Gershon Baskin has been an unofficial middleman between Hamas and Israel, negotiating the release of hostages. He tells CBC chief correspondent Adrienne Arsenault what he knows about the militant group’s tactics and why he cut off contact shortly after the Oct. 7 attacks.
Adrienne Arsenault is a Canadian journalist who is the Chief Correspondent of CBC News and co-anchor of The National since November 2017.
Gershon Baskin shares his ideas regarding why the shaky ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas is under strain again and why Israel wants an end to the public spectacle around the release of hostages, who've been paraded in front of large crowds and sometimes forced to praise their captors.
Gershon Baskin shares with CNN his perspectives regarding getting the deal done.
Gershon Baskin shares with Israel Channel 13 his insights regarding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alleging that Hamas "put the body of a Gazan woman in a coffin" instead of the body of Shiri Bibas.