mustafa barghouti is the secretary general and co—founder of the palestinian national initiative. latest development in israel and gaza. there is a great amount of anger because in the process the israeli army committed, asjosep borrell said, a horrible massacre, killing no less than 218 palestinians, mostly children and women, bombarding whole neighbourhoods for no reason, and injuring, in addition to that, 400 people, many of whom will die because israel has already destroyed most medicalfacilities and hospitals in gaza. it was a horrible act. of course we want all the prisoners to be released, but there was another way to do that, which is to conclude a deal. at this rate, netanyahu will need 20 years of massacres to release the rest of the 120 israeli prisoners. well, israel, of course, disputes that this was a massacre and it does seem that the number of casualties is contested, but it certainly was scores. but israel's view is, don't take hostages, then we won't need to free them and civilians won't be at risk. why do israelis take hostages? everybody talks about the 120 isr