Calls Grow for Prisoner-Hostage Exchange as Israel’s War on Gaza Escalates
The Israeli government is under mounting pressure to negotiate the release of more than 200 Israelis held captive by Hamas in Gaza in exchange for thousands of Palestinians caged in Israeli jails and prisons under a militarized judicial regime that human rights groups say is a central element of apartheid in occupied Palestine. Hamas has said its militants captured dozens of Israeli soldiers and...