Officials of the Israeli negotiating team accuse Netanyahu of wasting time. Netanyahu refused to hold a session of the mini-ministerial council for security and political affairs yesterday evening, Saturday.

He wanted to send negotiators to the Qatari capital, Doha, to discuss the exchange of prisoners with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and ceasefire. Israeli President Isaac Herzog said today that "it is clear to us that there is no victory in the war without the return of the abductees"