For Years, Two Men Shuttled Messages Between Israel and Hamas. No Longer.

For Years, Two Men Shuttled Messages Between Israel and Hamas. No Longer. Since 2006, Gershon Baskin, an Israeli peace activist, and Ghazi Hamad, a Hamas official, maintained a secret back channel between Gaza and Israel. Then Oct. 7 happened. World November 19, 2023 at 05:30AM