In April 2024, the Times of Israel interviewed Haim Rubinstein, who had served for five months as the spokesman of Hostage and Missing Families Forum. After describing a meeting that took place on October 26, 2023 between Netanyahu and families of the victims of the October 7 attacks, Rubinstein states: “We later found out that Hamas had offered on October 9 or 10 to release all the civilian hostages in exchange for the IDF not entering the Strip, but the government rejected the offer.” T...
