ネタニヤフ政権は人質解放と休戦案受諾を　訪米のイスラエル前首相

【ワシントンＡＦＰ＝時事】イスラエルの前首相で野党指導者のヤイル・ラピド氏は８日、ベンヤミン・ネタニヤフ政権に対し、パレスチナ自治区ガザ地区を実効支配するイスラム組織ハマスとの休戦案を受け入れ、人質解放に向けて動くよう訴えた。訪問先の米国での発言。（写真は、米首都ワシントンの国務省で、アントニー・ブリンケン米国務長官との会談を終え、取材に応えるイスラエルのヤイル・ラピド前首相）
　ラピド氏はアントニー・ブリンケン米国務長官との会談後、人質解放へとつながる休戦案をネタニヤフ政権が受け入れるのであれば、野党としても政権に協力する用意はあると述べた。新たな休戦案はカタール、エジプト、米国の３か国がまとめた。
　ラピド氏は「人質解放合意は実現可能だ。難しい合意で、最良の合意ではないかもしれないが、実現可能である限り合意すべきだ」と国務省前で記者団に語った。
　同氏はさらに、「ガザの人たちを傷付けないよう最善を尽くさねばならない」「ガザの子どもたちと戦う理由はない。大人たちの戦争で子どもたちが傷付くべきではない」と述べたが、その一方で、「われわれが戦っているのが子どもたちを人の盾として利用する恐ろしいテロ組織（ハマス）であるということは忘れてはならない」とも付け加えた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/04/10-16:35）

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid called Monday for a deal with Hamas to free hostages as he visited the United States, which has voiced growing frustration at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Speaking after meeting Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Lapid said the opposition would offer temporary support to Netanyahu's hard-right government if he approves a deal backed by the United States, Egypt and Qatar that would see the release of hostages and a truce in the six-month-old Gaza war.
A hostage deal is doable. It is a difficult deal, this is a deal we may not like, but it's doable and therefore needs to be made, he told reporters outside the State Department.
Those people need to go back to their families, said Lapid, a centrist former journalist who served as prime minister in 2022.
Israel and Hamas on Monday both dampened hopes of a speedy breakthrough in talks in Cairo after Egyptian state-linked media had reported significant progress.
President Joe Biden sent CIA chief Bill Burns to the talks after publicly urging Israel to come to a deal.
Biden last week warned that the future of US support was on the line without action on humanitarian concerns after Israel killed seven aid workers in Gaza, where the United Nations has warned of impending famine.
Lapid, who has criticized Netanyahu in the past for eroding bipartisan US support for Israel, said that both Israel and the United States should be concerned about civilians in Gaza.
We need to make sure we do our best to avoid hurting the people of Gaza, Lapid said.
We have no war with the children of Gaza. Children should not be hurt in grown-ups' wars, he said.
On the other hand, you have to remember we are fighting a terrible terror organization that uses them as human shields, he said of Hamas, whose October 7 assault inside Israel triggered the war.
Lapid called for Israel and the United States to remain best of allies and best of friends, saying that no current events and no government should change the relationship.
Israel has said its military accidentally killed the aid workers.