UAE will seek binding resolution for "immediate humanitarian pause" at UN Security Council meeting,

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6. There is increasing pressure to accept the swap, and there is increasing pressure for a humanitarian pause

Giora Eiland, a former head of the Israeli National Security Council, and the newspaper Haaretz swelled the chorus of calls to exchange about 5,000 Palestinians – including Hamas militants – for the captives in Gaza.

Eiland, the former security adviser, who is also a retired major general, said saving the hostages was the most urgent challenge. “Israel would be right to make two concessions to secure the release of all of the hostages: to release all 5,000 Palestinian prisoners incarcerated in Israel, and to postpone temporarily a more aggressive operation in Gaza,” he wrote in the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.

A Haaretz editorial said the hostages must come first. “The state does not have the mandate to sacrifice 229 people; no one would give it that mandate. Nor can it be allowed to consciously, for tactical reasons, make these people collateral damage in the war against Hamas.” Israel must release all Palestinian security prisoners, said the newspaper. “Whatever it takes to bring the hostages home immediately. At once. Today.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/29/israel-under-growing-pressure-to-trade-palestinian-prisoners-for-gaza-hostages