In an interview with FRANCE 24, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert said Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was ultimately to blame for the shocking death of six more hostages in Gaza over the weekend. Israel says the six hostages were "brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists", something the group denies. "They were killed by Hamas," Olmert said. But "Netanyahu is responsible for the erosion that led to the killing of these six people, and the killing of many others that were found before, and the ones that will be killed tomorrow and the day after tomorrow", he added.
Olmert said that Netanyahu "will not reach an agreement because he doesn't want to bring back the hostages, because he wants to continue the war".
He added: "There can be only one way to bring the hostages [back]: Israel will agree to end the war. It's as simple as that."
