Author Douglas Murray has slammed Hamas for carrying out “water torture” of Israelis as Hamas “drip out” small numbers of hostages.
The Israeli cabinet agreed to a deal with the terror group to secure the release of captives after tense negotiations extended into the early hours of Wednesday morning.
The Qatari-mediated ceasefire agreement will see the release of about 30 kidnapped children, eight mothers and 12 more women being held in Gaza by Hamas.
Mr Murray said Hamas knows Israel sees hostages as “golden eggs” and understands how much they care about them.
“They know how much they can drag out international pressure on Israel to have a ceasefire,” he told Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan.
“They know that they can keep on promising releases and then let down the families again and again.
“The problem that Israel has is that Benjamin Netanyahu says he wants to destroy Hamas, most Israelis feel I think understandably they cannot live with Hamas, and yet of course as long as Hamas has some hostages, has some people who have been kidnapped, it can try to stop operations going on in the Gaza to destroy Hamas. It is an incredibly ugly equation.”
