If the sides wait until Trump enters office on January 20 to strike a deal, “there’s a very real possibility that none of the hostages will remain alive, and it will be nearly impossible to retrieve the remains of those who have been murdered,” Dekel-Chen warns. While he faults the Israeli government for “abandoning” the hostages for more than 400 days, Dekel-Chen asserts that the Biden administration has done “everything in its power” to negotiate a deal, amid pushback from both Israel and Hamas.

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