Netanyahu believes there "could be" a hostage deal

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated this Sunday that there “could be” an exchange for the release of the hostages held by the Palestinian militias in Gaza.

“I think the less I say about it, the more I will increase the chances of it materializing,” Netanyahu said in statements to the American network NBC.

In any case, he stressed that any agreement will be “the result of military pressure” from the Israeli forces.. “If there is a possibility of an agreement we will talk about it when it is there. We will announce it if it is achieved,” he said.

In addition, Netanyahu has assured that Israel offered to deliver fuel to the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, which stopped working this Sunday after the fuel that powered its emergency electricity generators ran out.

The Israeli leader referred during the weekly Council of Ministers to the words of the Israeli Minister of Heritage, the far-right Amichai Eliyahu, who has proposed the launching of an atomic bomb on the Gaza Strip as one of the military options.

“Every word has a meaning when it comes to diplomacy. If you do not know do not speak. We have to be sensible,” Netanyahu said, according to the Israeli newspaper The Times of Israel in its digital edition.