Natasha Lebedeva is NBC's Senior Director for International Affairs, based in Washington.
Talks to free some of the 230 hostages held by Hamas stalled Friday after the group demanded that Israel allow fuel deliveries to Gaza and Hamas declined to guarantee the release of a large number of foreign captives, a former U.S. official with knowledge of the negotiations said. 'Hamas has been insistent on receiving fuel,' said the former U.S. official, who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to talk publicly. 'The Israel and U.S.
” Jason Straziuso, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, which acted as an intermediary in the first two hostage releases, said enormous levels of trust would be needed for a large number of captives to be freed. 'With a large group, the logistics just become that much more difficult. There’s a limit to how many people we can put in a Red Cross Land Cruiser. There’s a limit to how many vehicles we have in Gaza.
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