Why is Hamas suddenly willing to release hostages – and thus abandon its most important negotiating card?
Have you wondered where this sudden change of heart comes from?
Here are some contexts:
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- The „successfully failed“ Israeli attack on the Hamas leadership in Qatar
What appeared to be a failure on the outside actually had a tectonic effect.
In Doha, the message was understood – and carried on: to Gaza, Beirut, Damascus, Sana’a, and Tehran.
The subliminal warning was: You could be next.
For Qatar, this was a wake-up call.
The era of unconditional support for Hamas – political, media, and financial – is over. In Doha, they fear instability more than anything else.
The message to Hamas was unmistakable: If you don’t agree to this deal, you no longer have a place here.
At the same time, a quiet but remarkable maneuver is taking place in Qatar: Al Jazeera, Hamas’s most important mouthpiece for years, has replaced almost its entire editorial staff. A signal: The organization no longer wants to be part of a toxic alliance.
Whether this change will last remains to be seen. But the wind has changed in Doha – and Hamas is feeling it on its back.
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- The Military Reality in Gaza
The Israeli army has entered a new phase in Gaza City.
Hamas’s last strongholds are under fire, its command structures are crumbling.
What remains of the movement is fighting for survival.
At the same time, pressure from its own population is growing.
After two years of war, destruction, and hunger, the majority of people in Gaza want only one thing: an end to the nightmare.
Hamas knows that it can no longer secure its power with rockets, but only with a deal.
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- The American Intervention – and Trump’s Calculation
The attack in Qatar was, many in Washington say, „one operation too many.“
Donald Trump no longer wants Benjamin Netanyahu to call the shots.
He has made it clear to him: This war must end – and on my terms.
Trump’s calculation is simple: He wants to go down in history as the president who ends wars – not as the one who escalates them.
Stability is more valuable to him than any Israeli offensive.
So Washington offered Doha an unprecedented security guarantee – in return, it expected Qatar to exert serious pressure on Hamas for the first time.
And that is exactly what is happening now. Hamas is feeling the American breath – through Doha, through the financial channels, through the diplomatic phone lines.
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