Has hostaging lost its value in the Middle East? Or better yet, has Benjamin Netanyahu killed the market for it? You might be surprised at who has re-evaluated it.
The father-in-law of the man currently believed to run al-Qaeda made a public salute to Yahya Sinwar yesterday, who got caught above ground this week and killed by an IDF unit near Rafah. Mustafa Hamid, aka Abu Walid al-Masri, then told Hamas to release the hostages back to Israel, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors terror communications. The Times of Israel also passes along Hamid’s reasons for the capitulation:
The online declaration was made yesterday by Mustafa Hamid, also known as Abu Walid al-Masri, who is the father-in-law of Saif al-Adel, the man widely believed to now head Al-Qaeda, according to SITE. …
Hamas must now “immediately” return the hostages and their bodies, and “this…
