Israeli analysts believed that concluding an exchange deal was the best way to recover the rest of the detainees held by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), despite the success of recovering four hostages alive in an Israeli army operation in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

The Israeli army announced on Saturday that its forces were able to recover four hostages alive from the Nuseirat area in the central Gaza Strip.

The army said in a statement that "four Israeli kidnappers were freed, and all of them are in good health."

274 Palestinians were killed and more than 698 others were injured as a result of the Israeli air strikes that coincided with the operation, according to Palestinian statistics.

In a surprise attack launched on southern Israel on October 7, Hamas seized more than 250 hostages and transferred them to Gaza, while Israel says that 120 detainees are still in the hands of Hamas.

Opinions are divided in Israel regarding dealing with the issue of prisoners. There are those who believe that military pressure and carrying out “accurate” rescue operations may contribute to the process of retrieving the largest possible number of hostages held in Gaza, and one of the biggest supporters of this approach is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

On the other hand, Israeli politicians believe that the best way to return the hostages alive is to go to a prisoner exchange deal, and this is supported by Minister of the War Council, Benny Gantz, and the head of the opposition, Yair Lapid.

Writer and political analyst for the Haaretz newspaper, Yossi Verter, told Xinhua News Agency that the operation to free the four prisoners was a "brilliant" success.

But Werther believed that despite the success of the operation, the price could have been “much greater,” indicating that the four hostages could have been killed during the operation, considering that this proves the inevitability of reaching an agreement now, even at the expense of ending the war.

He added that what happened in Nuseirat "did not bring about any strategic change, as Israel is still immersed in the mud of Gaza with no political horizon and no plans for the day after the war."

Werther expected that the high death toll in the Nuseirat camp during the Israeli operation would further worsen Israel's image internationally, while right-wing ministers would demand more such measures because, in their view, it is the only way to release the rest of the kidnapped people.

The hostage recovery operation came the day after the United Nations announced the inclusion of Israel on the blacklist of countries and organizations that harm children, while the International Court of Justice is considering a case in which South Africa accuses Israel of committing genocide, amid a deadlock in indirect negotiations with Hamas and the possibility of war breaking out with the Lebanese Hezbollah in the north. .

The former head of the Military Intelligence Division in the Israeli army (AMAN), Amos Malka, believes that the Nuseirat operation is “a high-level and very complex intelligence operational effort, and one mistake would have failed the operation.”

Despite this, Malka said, "It is impossible to build on such operations as the only way to release all the abductees."

Meanwhile, Reserve General Yisrael Ziv, who previously served as commander of operations in the army, said that Hamas “will learn lessons, make changes, and make the next step more difficult.”

Ziv believed that only an exchange deal could return those kidnapped by Hamas.

Since the seventh of last October, the Israeli army has been waging a war against the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, leaving more than 37,000 Palestinians dead, after a sudden Hamas attack on a number of Israeli military bases and towns adjacent to the border with the Strip, which resulted in the deaths of 1,200 people.

To date, Netanyahu has not presented any clear plan for the day after the war in Gaza, which prompted Gantz to give him until June 8 to present a clear strategy for the situation in Gaza after the end of the war, otherwise he will submit his resignation.

Minister Gantz retracted his resignation yesterday, shortly after the hostages were recovered.

Talk of Gantz's possible resignation coincides with threats from Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir to dissolve the government if Netanyahu agrees to what they described as an "illegitimate deal."

Despite the threats of the two hard-line ministers, opposition leader Lapid, leader of the Yesh Atid Party (24 seats in Parliament), gave Netanyahu several times a “safety net” to conclude an exchange deal.

Writer and political analyst for the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, Nahum Barnea, said that the Nuseirat operation "did not solve any of the problems facing Israel since October 7, neither the crisis in the north with Hezbollah nor the crisis that threatens Israel on the international front."

Barnea added, "In each of these issues, the government continues to dive into a hole it dug for itself."