PM Olmert responded to recent statements from Gaza about exchange of prisoners: "Let's end the issue - we call the debate immediately through the mediators" • Hamas: "The ball in Israel's field"

• Hamas leader Yihaya Sinwar welcomes Palestinian prisoner released in Gaza // Photo: AP

In response to Hamas declarations of readiness to move forward in a prisoner exchange deal, the Prime Minister's Office said: Too through mediators. "

These are things Sinwar told the media in Gaza last Thursday. He suggested that if Israel released old and sick prisoners, Hamas would show flexibility in the release of prisoners with Israel. According to senior Hamas officials, the organization proposed to release Israeli civilians Abra Mengistu and Hisham a-Syed, who crossed the Gaza Strip, were apparently captured by Hamas, and since then their fate is unknown.

In reports published in the Gaza media, Sandar responded to comments said by Defense Minister Naftali Bennett, who condoned aid to the Gaza Strip in returning Israeli soldiers from Gaza. Sinwar threatened that, "If our Corona patients can't breathe, we will make 6 million Israelis unable to breathe as well. If our people had no food, we would inaugurate Bennett. When our people need respirators and medical devices - we will take away what we need as a sponsor, and he knows we can. "

It should be noted that Hamas is apparently making cynical and psychological use of the missing persons here, and thus the response of the Prime Minister's Office. As far as is known, there is currently no deal with Hamas.