On April 12, 1984, four Palestinian militants hijacked an Israeli bus of line 300 with 35 passengers, most of them Jewish settlers, in the Gaza Strip. In the rescue operation, one soldier and two of the four hijackers died. The other two hijackers were captured alive and were executed shortly after by agents of the Shin Bet secret services.

Last week, one day after Israel bombed Doha With the intention of killing Hamas negotiators, the country's president, Isaac Herzog, held a bitter debate in London with Bronwen Maddox, the director of the prestigious Chatham House, regarding the war in Gaza and the legitimacy of the actions of Benjamin Netanyahu's government in response. as of October 7, 2023Maddox reminded Herzog that "the families of the hostages seem dismayed by the attack on Qatar," to the point of asserting that "Israel is destroying the negotiations that could have brought about a ceasefire."