Analysis: Hamas taking children captive a failure.
Al Jazeera senior political analyst Marwan Bishara has said he hopes a clip that appears to show Hamas fighters releasing captives would lead to more releases, saying Hamas taking so many civilians captive was a “failure”.
“I don’t think Hamas had dreamt that its operation would succeed the way it did in the sense that its fighters went in there and just killed so many people and captured so many, and clearly there was no coordination among the fighters about whom to capture and how,” he said.
“Clearly this was not only a mistake, it was a major failure to bring in children as captives into Gaza, because this is not tenable,” he said.
“I’m glad that they are able to, I’m not sure correct is the right word, but certainly release these captives, because holding them will simply compound the failure,” he said.