Amid the tug-of-war of ceasefire negotiations, cracks in Israeli politics start to show – Mondoweiss

Last Tuesday, Hamas’s armed wing, the Izzedin al-Qassam Brigades, announced that it had lost contact with the group in charge of guarding U.S.-Israeli soldier Eidan Alexander, after an Israeli strike “directly targeted” the location where he was being held captive. 

Alexander has been at the center of the U.S. administration’s attention in recent months, with U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff saying in early March that the U.S. wanted Hamas to release…